Cities Alive, the first world congress of green roofers held in Toronto, put me a little over the top, so as chair of the October 19 session on urban agriculture, I opened the event as if it were a wedding ceremony. Dearly beloved, I intoned, and went the whole nine yards on Sustainable Urban Design [...]

Sneak preview of Wayne Roberts’ controversial article from Alternatives’ new issue, Work. Watch for it newsstands next week. Suppose they had a depression and nobody came? Instead of accepting today’s economic downturn as a pink slip that can’t be refused, what if our governments reacted as if they had received a Facebook invitation: by selecting [...]

Wayne is heading to Iowa to speak at community food security coalition. While there, he’ll receive an honourable mention for the Toronto Food Policy Council for its work on food sovereignty. (They’re right next to Via Campesina!)

As we pass the first anniversary of the recession brought on by the crash and burn of houses of financial speculation and ill repute, who still remembers the great one-liner from Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff for then-presidential contender Barrack Obama, who gave his version of “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” As [...]