From Lionel to Oscar

Following Oscar Peterson's passing away, a growing number of Montrealers have been supporting the idea of nenaming the Lionel Groux station in his honor.
Want to help this cause? You can go to City Hall and be vocal about it next tuesday:

What Smart Growth Has In Mind for Baby Boomer:

You can read the rest of this article on SmartGrowth.org

Baby Boomers Projected to Reshape Housing Market -- Again

Born between 1946 and 1964, the nation's 80 million of ''baby boomers'' are projected to reshape its housing market ''as they sell their three-bedroom houses in the suburbs for new homes more in keeping with both their active lifestyles and the encroaching realities of age,'' and Maine towns and cities better be ready to face the challenges and to seize the opportunities, states the Kennebec Journal, quoting Smart Growth America Communication Director David Goldberg, who expects some boomers to settle on hobby farms but many to seek walkable town centers, and who stresses the need ''to think in terms of mixed uses'' and more housing for both the affluent and those on fixed incomes...

Montreal Indoor Freezing

Juste like the NYC Central Station stunt, a bunch of people met and froze on saturday feb, 23rd at precisley 18h15... and I was one of them! My roommate filmed a minute or so of it, so here's a little video, but a Concordia student will be posting much better stuff soon.

The Notre-Dame Highway Project: Can we avoid this failure?

Sign the petition here. There will also be regular updates via rss on the right hand column of this blog.

GreenDating Second Edition - Networking Night

This will take place thursday evening, and from what I understood, it's going to be packed. The 8$ at the door should be well spent if you want to meet professionals. So don't forget to bring you business cards and laundry peg (don't ask)

Already February!

My, my, oh my, January went so fast, I haven't had the time to update you folks!
Thanks to Lauren, Danielle and Shannon, I do have some nice little links to display for the time being.
For the landscape lovers who are up to here with the jargon, you'll be able to have a laugh out of it right here
Looking to know how walkable is your study area? Shannon recommends WalkScore

Finally, Danielle sent me an interesting link on this californian project where a local organization wants to transform Alcatraz into a Global Peace Center.

From what I saw online, the project is ambitious and kind of appealing on paper, but visually speaking, it's like seeing tie-die getting upgraded to web 2.0.