social innovation archive

Climate control - Oct 30, 2009 - 10:11 am

Quantifying Canada’s carbon sink

Jing Chen. Photo by JOHN HRYNIUK PHOTOGRAPHY.

Canada’s role as a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol raises a lot of questions for Jing Chen. How will planting more trees help Canada meet its Kyoto target? How do we fulfill our Kyoto duty to measure and report on Canada’s carbon emissions? The geography professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem-Atmospheric Interaction is finding [...]

Goodbye, middle-income neighbourhoods - Sep 18, 2009 - 1:18 pm

Low-income inner city suburbs growing

David Hulchanski. Photography by John Hryniuk.

Social work professor and housing expert David Hulchanski and his research team at U of T’s Cities Centre (formerly the Centre for Urban & Community Studies) woke the world up to a different view of Toronto in 2007 when the centre released a report called The Three Cities within Toronto: Income polarization among Toronto’s neighbourhoods, [...]