Blogs about: Sustainable Urbanism Urban Form
Featured Blog
Green on Top: Toronto Passes Green Roof Legislation
The city of Toronto has passed the most comprehensive regulations on green roofs of any city in North America. The bylaw puts Toronto at the top of the heap in terms of legislation, though the advocac… more →
Urban Neighbourhood
Green on Top: Toronto Passes Green Roof Legislation
— 2 comments
mrbarham wrote 5 months ago: The city of Toronto has passed the most comprehensive regulations on green roofs of any city in Nort … more →
BuildingGreen.com - EBN: 17:10 - Free Energy Modeling in Google SketchUp
— 2 comments
mrbarham wrote 10 months ago: As part of my ongoing studies in planning we have been talking a lot about sustainability, environme … more →
Murah Khane rises from its own Ashes
mrbarham wrote 11 months ago: Most of the news these days from Afghanistan isn’t all that positive. Standard fare is about w … more →
Firefox Add-on for the Climate Change Warrior
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Are you a Climate Change Warrior, but don’t have enough instant information at your finger tip … more →
Bats Dying in the Wind (Turbines)
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: It happens time and time again, we come up with a fantastic new technology that will be the solution … more →
Put the WeedWhacker and Herbicides Away, Get a Goat
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: A Study by University of Northern British Columbia professor Annie Booth, tracked the effectiveness … more →
Club WATT: Power from the Party.
— 1 comment
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Club WATT has got to be one of the coolest sustainable initiatives out there. The Nightclub is parti … more →
Big Brother Environmentalism
— 3 comments
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Are you living up to your environmental potential? Residents in a number of British eco towns could … more →
Beyond R-2000
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Photo via globeandmail.com There is a great article in the Globe and Mail today about a guy who buil … more →
Free yourself from the supermarket! Urban Farming is for Everyone
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: If there is one thing that I can take from the incoming stats on Urban Neighbourhood is that a lot o … more →
The neighbours have come to roost
— 1 comment
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Local and backyard farming is making a come back in a big way, most of the media on it so far has be … more →
Bionic Buildings / Bio Buildings
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Over at Environmental Graffiti there is a posting about ‘bionic’ buildings, these are in … more →
The Litmus Garden
— 1 comment
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: The site before The site after One of the most exciting things we have been seeing lately is the use … more →
Urban Farming is getting noticed
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: In this month’s issue of Dwell Magazine urban farms make an appearance in an article about cit … more →
Green Rooftops for Living
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: There is a great little gallery of rooftops posted on Flickr by one jwilly. It is a number of photog … more →
Concrete shoes for carbon dioxide
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Wet concrete + children handprints = art. The times online has an interesting article about capturin … more →
Sustainable Stormwater Management
— 1 comment
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Sustainable Storm Water Managment in Action It isn’t often that I get really excited about the thing … more →
Bio Buildings
— 1 comment
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: The Editt Tower Right now, in Urbanist circles, green roofs are becoming a major plus for new urban … more →
Rain City Bikes
mrbarham wrote 1 year ago: Not your average bike The thing with bikes and the city is that it can be hard to haul things. Just … more →
