Streetlight to Starlight – Oct 2010
On a cool autumn evening, under huge streetlights that blot out the sky, we’re standing in the parking lot of University Plaza, at the edge of Dundas. Tonight, the urge […]
Tag Archives: ecology
Play is Resistance: Don River 2 – Sept 2010
Dear readers, how wonderful that you have rejoined us to continue the quest to discover the patches of life that cling to the Don River! We left off last month […]
Of Settlers and Foreign Maples: Toronto’s Don River Valley – June 2010
[This is part one of a two-part series. The second part is Play is Resistance: Don River 2] We enter the Don River Valley at the end of three days […]
Water, Limestone, and Suburbs – May 2010
On the surface, we see only the beautiful, strangely pitted and patterened limestone outcrops known as karren, and the occasional grassy, bowl-shape in the ground — a sinkhole. But from […]
Story of a Scar – Apr 2010
Slow trickles of water seep out of the softened soil from everywhere in our watershed. Drops collect and build in power. Water bursts from long-frozen escarpment rocks, racing towards the […]
