Monthly Archives: August 2014

Join us at the Complete Streets Forum

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Victoria Foote

This week we’re running a guest blog by Nancy Smith Lea, Director of the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation, a project of Clean Air Partnership. Every time a street in Toronto is built or re-designed – to accommodate a streetcar … Continue reading →

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Can Toronto’s buildings be carbon-neutral?

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Marianne Touchie

Earlier this month, the International Union of Architects (UIA) issued a stunning announcement. Member organizations of the UIA – representing more than 1.3 million architects in 124 countries around the world – unanimously adopted the “2050 Imperative,” a declaration to … Continue reading →

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The art of the retrofit

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Marianne Touchie

The quandary of making buildings more energy efficient without forfeiting comfort and air quality is one that, as an engineer at TAF, I am preoccupied with. Sure I want to reduce leakage in the building envelope. But I also understand … Continue reading →

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Participating in the Natural Gas Demand-Side Management Guidelines

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Julia Langer

Otto von Bismark famously said that “Law and sausage are two things you do not want to see being made,” and you would be forgiven if you believed this observation could be applied to the upcoming consultations on the revisions to … Continue reading →

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