In one of the more surreal moments from Streets are for People’s Tuesday visit to Queen’s Park, Rosario Marchese, the NDP MPP for Trinity-Spadina, donned Captain Planet–style superhero digs, made with a few go-get-’em words about public transit, and took flight into the Legislative Assembly’s inner chamber to save the known universe. Except he didn’t, but the cape is fact. Sort of.......

Several hundred environmentalist activists marched through downtown Toronto on Sunday on "Reclaim Earth Day." The exuberant parade called on the Harper government to implement an about-face on climate change policy and to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The march ended with a street festival on John Street at Queen organized by the anti-car/pro-bicycle group Streets are for People, which featured games, music, and the famous Petition Car (pictured above). The Petition Car will be delivered......

Happy Earth Day! Take the strike-less TTC today in celebration. Brazen thieves stole a truck containing about $11,000 worth of broccoli from a parking lot near the 427 on the weekend. Police are warning residents to keep their delicious vegetables under lock and key, and to keep an eye out for some healthy, but gassy, bandits. The Province is moving forward with plans to force retailers to remove all cigarette displays and hide the......

Photo of Chris Turner at the Greater World Earthship community in New Mexico by Ashley Bristowe. It's been impossible to ignore the issue of climate change. Al Gore bounced back to relevancy with An Inconvenient Truth, and even NHL players have gotten into the act by teaming with David Suzuki to put global warming in the penalty box. With Earth Day coming up on Tuesday, Torontoist sat down with Globe and Mail sustainability columnist......

Do you think you can turn your lights off for an hour? The WWF is challenging people around the world to do just that at 8 p.m. local time on March 29. The global event is called Earth Hour, and the goal is to raise awareness of global warming. Last year's inaugural event took place in Sydney, Australia, where more than 2 million people and 2100 businesses turned off their lights. The result was......

Now that you're informed about the unhappy and scary state of the earth, it's time to do something about it. The next ArtJam will not only showcase the usual fusion of art and music, but will be a fundraiser for WTF, or the Weather Task Force. Come out to Rancho Relaxo on Friday, June 29 at 8 p.m. and pay $7 cover to help out this environmental alliance—after all, WTF organizes a bunch of......

Tonight at 8 p.m., Freedom Clothing Collective, a clothing store specialising in Toronto-designed garments made using sustainable materials, re-opens its door in celebration of Earth Day (which was actually last Sunday...Earth Week?) and shows off its new renovations. The store recently held a competition to redesign its space and was closed for a while to undergo the contest-winning renovations. The space now integrates sustainable and recycled materials not only into its clothing, but into......

Spring has finally sprung in a big way, just in time for Earth Day. Tomorrow, why not try something new, while also doing your part to help save the planet? Number three on the “Top 10 Actions” to help the environment on the Earth Day Canada website is try eating meat-free at least one day a week. The reason according to them is this: a meat-based diet requires seven times more land than a plant-based......

If you don’t have lunch plans for tomorrow, you may want to pencil this in. April 19 marks Camros Organic Eatery's first anniversary at 25 Hayden Street, one block south-east of Yonge and Bloor. Although tucked away on a side street in what used to be a travel agency, Camros has managed to attract hoards of loyal followers. They come for the positive vibes, the commitment to the environment and of course the organic,......

In case this week's issue of Now isn't reminder enough, tommorow is Earth Day. And there are plenty of Earth Day events around town. Downsview Park is holding a festival and massive tree planting. They're trying to plant 1000 trees so there should be plenty for all. There'll be a live animal show, face painting and Torontoist favourite, crafts! If trees are too big and you'd rather plant something smaller head down closer to the......

The year is 5766. Davenport M.P.P. Tony Ruprecht issues free calendars to his constituents. Torontoist decides to use its calendar because wasting paper is bad— worse even than the dismal layout of Mr. Ruprecht’s calendar. Besides, that spot on the wall has been bare ever since the frolicking Daschunds of 2005 went out of style. April. The non-denominational Torontoist consults its calendar for advice about when not to interrupt its Jewish compatriots, mid-Passover. Torontoist is......

Lest you somehow forget it’s Earth Day (Earth Week, Earth Year, whatever) and Mayor Miller gives you a hall pass on the 20-Minute Toronto Makeover, you still have some spring cleaning to do. And so, the good environmentally-friendly folks at ECOgent have developed a residential version of their industrial cleaning product, which contains 100% natural ingredients and is free of phosphates, dyes, perfumes and pesticides. It's so safe, you can practically drink it - though......

If David Miller hosted a talk show, this week's theme would be "20-minute Make-Overs." Except instead of people who watch television all afternoon, the participants would be Toronto's parks. Miller is urging Torontonians to "join their neighbours for the citywide "target="new">clean-up, which will take place on Friday, April 22 (Earth Day)." Various clean-up bags are available at Beer Stores, Pizza Pizzas and Parks and Recs Community Centres.......