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Threatened Toronto bike lane gets more rush hour traffic than the car lane
Happy Birthday, QWERTY typewriter
Architects and planners: Stop it with the terrible AI images already.
Asbestos, the Magic Mineral, Is Back!
Nice Shades: A UK design guide for exterior shading should be used everywhere
Why we keep burning things: It drives the economy
Urine for a surprise: a splashless urinal
Forget heat pumps, get a bike and go vegan!
Fixing our buildings is going to be a long, hard, and expensive job.
"The most sustainable building is one too beautiful to tear down."
Another reason to stop using the term "embodied carbon"- it's misleading and confusing.
Protected bike lanes attract over four times as many cyclists
"Loo Leash"- the distance one can be from a toilet- affects people of every age.
We won’t have enough copper supply to meet demand within the decade. What do we do?
Bring on the renaissance in stone building
How to age gracefully: don’t think you can do everything you did when you were younger.
Happy 150th Birthday to the Metric System
Don’t Waste Buildings writes the hymn book for building preservation and retrofit
If only I could sleep on the overnight sleeper train
From the Archives: Study confirms that boomers are clueless
Happy 205th Birthday, Florence Nightingale
Radical Simplicity and Sufficiency are no longer fringe
Unleashing the Power of Cycling with Tom Flood
One good thing the US government has done: putting Shein and Temu out of business.
How Canada could become a green building superpower and build 3.5 million homes
Happy May Day, which used to be green instead of red
How the private self-driving car might change how we live
With windows, you can have too much of a good thing
Will circadian lighting take us back to offices without windows?
Will tariffs drive people to take transit or get a bike?
On This Earth Day, Take Personal Responsibility to End Plastic Pollution
Piles of research on why we should promote bike lanes, bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters
Looking at windows: excerpts from The New Manual
Shower wars continue as USA pumps up the water volume
Low-E coatings on windows save energy but may be messing with our health
Bike lanes are under attack across North America
Another look at "Fabric First" in building
Should children be allowed to play with Squishmallows and polyester stuffies?
Sufficiency vs abundance: Less is more vs Less is a bore
Why I am thinking about giving up teaching
How to build a world around sufficiency or "frugal abundance"
It’s Spring! Time to plant a victory garden
A Treasure Map for Sustainable Design
Recycling Is Beyond Fixing, So Let's Get Over It
GeoHome may have solved the problem of the geodesic dome.
From the archives: It's the Ides of March, a Good Day for a Bath
Looking back at Bjarke Ingels' Amager Bakke
Canadian beer is sold in cans made with aluminum from the USA
CMHC releases plan books for the 21st century
How Canada's planning, design and construction industries can adapt to the Trump tariffs
Microsoft "greenwraps" AI data centres with mass timber
If we want economic independence from the USA, we should build more bike lanes, not rip them out.
Ontario Election Edition: Throw Doug Ford out before he kills us all
Cecil Rhodes said, “I would annex the planets if I could.” Trump and Musk are on it.
How can we build a Canadian sufficiency economy?
Is Canada about to experience Rapid Unscheduled Degrowth?
150 years ago, Canada built a railway to stop American expansion north.
Why Trump's 25% tariff on aluminum will lead to a big burp in greenhouse gas emissions
Airbus "pushes back" plans for hydrogen powered planes
For self-sufficiency and sustainability, we need more renovation and restoration
For green building, there is nothing more local than straw
Lessons from the past about how to deal with American tariffs
Stanley's back! Jevons' Paradox comes to AI with DeepSeek
The annual attack of the killer bathtubs at the Interior Design Show in Toronto
Happy second anniversary of my new life working for me
Fight Trump Tariffs with a Patriotic Canadian Diet
It's time to rethink our e-bike regulations
Starbucks is no longer "America's Bathroom." It never should have been.
Coca-Cola "evolves voluntary environmental goals"
Another survey confirms that boomers are clueless
How the Greenlash is sinking sustainability
How do I deal with AI in the classroom?