Vantage Point #selfportrait #gorillapod #montreal (Taken with Instagram at Bassin Peel)
The first part of this episode is on urban agriculture takes place in Montreal, and has most information about Lufa farms rooftop greenhouse that I have seen so far. They also visit Santropol Roulant… super cute. It’s hard not to have a huge crush on David Suzuki.
That’s my mayor!
Nice article about a local Canadian mayor trying to make his neighbourhood a nice place to be as opposed to a rat run for commuters…
LUC FERRANDEZ’S last bicycle was a Kona, a sturdy model with thick tires, ideal for hauling heavy loads. During his 2009 campaign as the Projet Montréal candidate for the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, he would hook it to a trailer piled with a laptop, a projector, a collapsible screen, and (this being Montreal) a couple of bottles of rosé. After setting up his equipment next to a café terrace or a depanneur, he would distribute paper cups and launch a PowerPoint slide show of streets and squares in Copenhagen, Paris, and Madrid, as well as historical photos of local boulevards, all unencumbered by traffic. He figures it was these partys de trottoir, or sidewalk parties — during which he made the case that Montreal could be as clean, green, and safe as any place in Europe — that won him the mayoralty of the city’s most populous district.
sidelight #selfportrait #gorillapod #montreal (Taken with Instagram at Marriott Montreal Château Champlain)
Agriculture Urbain 101
Mois de l’abeille urbaine
(via terraculture: Abeilles et miel urbain – le 5 Novembre dans le Mile-end)
