Toronto the Green Tour
Can a concrete downtown core really be greened over? On this walking tour of the downtown’s greenest sites – from city parks, to community gardens, to eco-buildings and bike racks – our guides will show you that it ain’t easy being green, but it is certainly possible.
Highlights
• How Toronto uses its frosty lake to keep itself cool all summer long – and why you still can’t swim in parts of it.
• Cars vs. Pedestrians – do the city’s one-way streets need a serious re-think?
• Tour a rooftop garden made for people and trees – and hear the story of how one man with a big green thumb transformed an 1899 warehouse from the top down.
• Phantom electricity? Find out why some Torontonians are paying a premium for wind-powered electricity but are still using the same fossil-fuel power lines as their neighbours
• See a made-in-Toronto eco-design that’s being copied all over the world.
• Tour one of the city’s earliest sustainable buildings and climb onto its green roof.
Schedule: All Year
Times: Saturdays 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Meets and Ends: On the southwest corner of King Street and Simcoe Street, in front of Roy Thomson Hall. (map)
Cost: $20.00 per person. Cash only. Students and Seniors with valid ID, $15.00. Children under 16, $10.00
Spot your guide in their Walk T.O. white t-shirt.