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Food
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Ontario Smoked SalmonAfter the last ice age, 11,000 years ago, the vast glaciers that covered Canada melted, leaving behind a web of waterways connecting landlocked lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic salmon eventually found themselves in the enormous and bountiful waters of Lake Ontario, where they decided to stay for good.
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Making Tortilla One Cob at a TimeThe Fall Harvest is a time to celebrate local food. For months, we’ve been anticipating the cornucopia of produce that’s now available at markets and grocery stores. We can finally sink our teeth into the season’s first ears of corn. But many of us will have already had our first corn months ago, when it was trucked in from South America, as if the Summer barbeque season, in its fully golden glory, could be expedited by a cob of corn.
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Whatever Happened to Pure Cream?Pick up a carton of cream at the grocery store and you'll probably find a list of ingredients in addition to "cream". Here's why that is and why it matters.
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What are "natural" and "artificial flavours"?They're in almost everything on the grocery store shelf. So what are they? And what are they doing in our food?
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Has Local Gone Too Far?*guest post for The Healthy Butcher's blog,
The importance of eating locally grown food has gained a strong presence in public consciousness—perhaps its presence is a little too strong. Being local is often considered the ultimate indicator of ethical food. But, in truth, local is just one of many factors we need to weigh in before putting an item into our grocery basket. |
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Ontarian TerroirWhat is terroir? Why does it matter? And why aren't Ontarians as concerned about where their maple syrup and honey come from as the French are about their wine and cheese?
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Craft Beer: Real FlavourOntario's thirst for craft beer is a sign of an even deeper thirst; a thirst for real flavour.
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Cities & Buildings
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Natural Light and Time's Passage at
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The Horse PalaceBreathing in deeply, your lungs and body fill with this air – the air of a bygone era when horses were an ubiquitous part of urban life. You’re not just looking back in time; you’re smelling back in time. These smells describe a world that is impossible to articulate in words and images; the nose is a gateway into a different dimension of reality, one that isn’t reducible to the dimensions of sight and language.
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Running the White LightMany drivers read the amber light as a “hurry up” signal; they often don’t stop when they could, and instead of completing their maneuver they begin their maneuver—sometimes even after the amber light has extinguished. It seems some motorists read the amber light as a green light and the red light as an amber light.
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Growing Policy:If rising food prices suddenly made it prohibitibely expensive to transport food into your city, what groceries would you find the the supermarket after one week? One month? One year? A city with a resilient food system can handle this very possible scenario. The key to urban food resilience is urban agriculture...
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Desire Waste BinsWhere we see litter is where we need more waste bins
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The Regent Park Aquatic CenterDynamic lighting affects us deeply, whether we notice it consciously or subconsciously. It activates our temporal perception, our sense of time. To be aware of time is not trivial; time is a basic fact of the human condition. We always exist in time. If architecture is meant to be a place for human beings, then it should acknowledge the temporal dimension of our existence.
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Hungry TreesThey're eating everything! Or are they?
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Environment
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Jane Goodall Institute BlogIn this series of nine blog posts, I apply environmental and ethics philosophy to promote social action and environmental conservation.
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SolarShare BlogThese blog posts, written for North America's largest renewable energy co-op, promote ethical investing and inform current and potential investors on issues related to solar energy and ethical investing.
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LEAF BlogI wrote these three blog posts for LEAF, a Toronto organization that aims to enhance and increase public appreciation for the city's urban forest.
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Lessons from NatureThis ongoing writing project looks closely at certain flora, fauna and natural phenomena to uncover what lessons they have to offer.
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Nature documentaries and the pornographization of natureAfter being bombarded with high-definition images shot on exotic continents of Ibexes climbing down precipices, cheetahs chasing antelopes, waterfalls spilling out the clouds, it becomes difficult to appreciate the singular bee, buzzing from plant to plant, slowly collecting pollen on its belly and legs.
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Other
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"Captain! My Captain!"The origins of Robin Williams' epithet is a Walt Whitman poem, where a sailor mourns the loss of his captain. These words are fitting to mourn our unbelievable loss of Robin Williams.
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