2001 Environmental Articles

Make your street more livable. A review of David Engwicht’s, Street Reclaiming, by Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities David Engwicht, Gabriola Island: New Society Press, 1999. One of […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. One of my sweet joys of summer is chomping into a fresh ear of local corn. But lately that joy has been tarnished: most of the corn in Canada has […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. Mordre dans un épi de maïs fraîchement cueilli est une des petites jouissances que je m’accorde chaque été. Mais dernièrement, mon appétit en a pris un coup. On m’a dit […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. It’s shaping up to be a busy Fall season of activism. Algonquin Park – we are 160 activists gathered by the calm waters of Teepee Lake, but we cannot locate […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. Toronto Activists Fight For Clean Air. There was some unusual traffic in the streets this past week. On Friday, August 17, and then again on Monday, August 20, I joined […]

Par Tooker Gomberg: traduction: Marc Beaugrand-Champagne, Toronto, Canada. Toronto’s car-free Islands show how joyful life can be without the tyranny of the automobile. Darwin s’est émerveillé devant la beauté des Galapagos, ces îles lointaines où […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. Cyclists take action to demonstrate the need to reduce personal reliance on fossil fuels. Nobody expected it to be this easy. It just took 40 or so cyclists to converge […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. 178 of 189 UN members agree to rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they may not go far enough for Tuvalu. The world crept back from the brink at […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. Toronto likes the car-free idea, but can’t seem to move on it. Judging from the inertia at City Hall, it’s possible Toronto won’t be joining the September 22 annual Car-Free […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Toronto, Canada. How the capital of Columbia, Bogota, is quickly becoming a car-free zone. Can it really be true that Bogota, Colombia, a city of seven million wracked by drug wars, corruption, […]