The corner of Pierce and Ste-Catherine, in Shaughnessy Village. Unlike many North-American "central business districts", Downtown Montreal is a lively place with constant activity. It is a part of town where there are many Montreal-wide institutions, major retail streets, three universities, as well as numerous cultural attractions. As a result, it is a destination for people from across the metropolitan region: hundreds of thousands of people pass through the area on a daily basis to work, study, shop, and access institutions. It is also a living ...

Here is an upcoming event that could be of interest to Spacing readers who are residents of the Plateau Mont-Royal borough. This Wednesday at 7pm,  the local association of Projet Montréal will be hosting a community forum on Greening the Plateau. The event will take place at the House of Friendship, 120 Duluth East, and it is organized in collaboration with the following associations: Greening Duluth The Montreal Urban Ecology Centre The Mile End Citizens Committee Car Free Mile End The Eco-Quartier Jeanne-Mance Santropol Roulant and the Rooftop ...

What would a green neighbourhood look like on the ground? For the past two years Éco-quartier Peter-McGill has been hard at work building a showcase project for what sustainable development on a small scale should look like. The idea behind the project, dubbed Quartier 21, is to concentrate as many small scale green projects in one spot to serve as a showcase for how we can make our cities greener. This initiative has its origins in the Agenda 21, which was adopted at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This is a global action plan on sustainable development, and one of its key ideas is that environmental change has to come at all levels. It has to come at the international level, with agreements such as the Kyoto Accord; but also at the local level with small-scale, everyday projects. It's in this persective that the concept of a Quartier 21 was born.

Cette fin de semaine, de vendredi à dimanche, La Tohu (une organization qui est associer avec l'École nationale de cirque) sera l'hôte de la cinquième édition de la Fête Bio-Paysanne. Je n'ai pas y allé encore mais cette année je suis heureux d'y aller. La site Web à beaucoup des détails qui je ne vais pas raconter içi, mais attendez le marché, échantillons alimentaires, animaux de ferme, visites guidées du Complexe environnemental de Saint-Michel, et plus. J'espère que le méteo sera coopérer! Maintenant, je voudrais savoir comment y aller en ...

Photo prise devant l'Éco-quartier Peter-McGill, le 21 octobre 2007.