Re: depave in National Post newspaper

[Albert Kaufman]

Wrong group :) interesting group, though :)

Depave is at

http://groups.google.com/group/depave

Albert

>
> Hi depavers,
>
> Brief intro: I am an artist in Toronto, Canada and have created a
> visual story about our true-life adventure to unpave our driveway. In
> the process we had to fight City Hall.
> Paradise Unpaved http://www.frankejames.com/debate/?p=98
>
> A professor from ucsf.edu left this message on my blog about your
> organization:
> "Great idea, and wonderfully told. Thought you might be inspired by
> these kindred spirits over in Portland" http://depave.org/blog/index.php
>
> The Latest News:
> I've been meaning to email you some good news.
>
> Paradise Unpaved was written up in the National Post newspaper (which
> is not known to be eco-friendly, and is generally pretty right wing).
> I mentioned depave.org to the reporter to give the bigger social
> context to our driveway, and she wrote depave into the article. Third
> paragraph.
> http://www.frankejames.com/images/NationalPost2.pdf
>
> We also did a post on our James Gang design site -- depave is not
> mentioned but you may be interested in how our project could save the
> city millions (Lake cleanup viable if city handles runoff) IF more
> homeowners were to have permeable driveways.
>
> Franke James¹ Footprint Saves City Money
> http://www.jamesgang.com/ideas/?p=47
>
> This week, author Erika Andersen wrote about Paradise Unpaved and I
> added a comment about depave under Erika's article:
> Saving the Earth - One Driveway at a Time
> http://thesimplestthing.typepad.com/erikas_blog/2008/08/saing-the-earth---one-
> driveway-at-a-time.html
>
> "It's amazing to me how we can think we are doing something unique and
> yet we're part of a larger trend that is happening around the world. I
> recently learned of Oregon-based www.depave.org <http://
> www.depave.org> , whose mission is to 'inspire and promote the removal
> of unnecessary concrete and asphalt from this earth." Franke James
>
> Re: Your Google Group
> I joined and was interested to see you are battling zoning bylaws.
> Good for you! This past week there was a giant propane explosion in
> Toronto. It was partly a failure of the zoning bylaws that put a
> propane facility and residential neighborhood, school, etc within
> meters of each other. The explosion forced the evacuation of 12,000
> people from their homes when the tanks blew up. Two people died -- but
> more would have if it had occurred on a work day. If you have any
> thoughts, let me know. I'm writing about it.
>
> Nice to connect with all of you!
>
> Franke
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