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Canada: Climate change adaptation: street surfaces that absorb water
Posted by Toronto Star: Jennifer Wells on August 20th, 2012
Toronto Star: There’s a post-rain freshness at the Kortright Centre for Conservation as Glenn MacMillan tamps his boots across the still-wet pavers.
MacMillan is senior manager, water and energy, for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and he’s based here at Kortright, the city’s bucolic testing ground for energy and conservation initiatives.
The pavers in question are deemed pervious, or permeable, due to the void space that rims the hard stones, space that is filled with penetrable, pea-sized...
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Canada: Climate change: How Toronto is adapting to our scary new reality
Posted by Toronto Star: Jennifer Wells on August 19th, 2012
Toronto Star: Michael D'Andrea had no notion that August day just how wrathful the afternoon would turn, how calamitous, what an effect it would have on the city's future.
It was an off-duty day for the director of Toronto's Water Infrastructure Management, who had planned a pleasant Niagara-on-the-Lake getaway with his wife in what was a hot, dry summer.
"We had lunch, we walked by the lake,' D'Andrea recounts of the pretty afternoon. And then came the reckoning: "I looked toward Toronto and said, 'Oh my...