Community action/Toronto
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Toronto.
News
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Designing Inclusive Engagement: How Toronto Is Rethinking Public Participation, newamerica.org (Sep 11, 2025) - Agents of change, cbc.ca (Jan 16, 2023) — A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?
Video
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Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]Food activism
[edit | edit source]- FoodShare, non-profit that works with communities and schools to deliver healthy food and food education *The Stop Community Food Centre
Community resources
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The Don Valley Brick Works (often referred to as the Evergreen Brick Works) is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River Valley in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many well-known Toronto landmarks, such as Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall, Massey Hall, and the Ontario Legislature. Since the closure of the original factory, the quarry has been converted into a city park which includes a series of naturalized ponds, while the buildings have been restored and opened as an environmentally focused community and cultural centre by Evergreen, a national charity dedicated to restoring nature in urban environments.
- Evergreen Brick Works, added 15:39, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
- Indigenous Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Toronto Tool Library
Sharing
[edit | edit source]The Sharing Depot, community hub where members have access to a wide range of things without owning or storing them.
Institute for a Resource-Based Economy
Maps: google.com/maps
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]Bike Pirates, a DIY bike shop - Urban Repair Squad - wikipedia:Cycling in Toronto
Bike Share Toronto is a bicycle-sharing system in Toronto, Ontario, operated by the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA). The system consists of over 10,400 bicycles and over 1000 stations in all 25 wards of the city.
The system was launched in 2011 by PBSC Urban Solutions under the BIXI brand and was taken over by the City of Toronto through the Toronto Parking Authority in 2014. The system is currently sponsored by Tangerine Bank. Since 2016, the system has been gradually expanded, with ridership increasing to a high of 7.8 million rides in 2025.
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]News archive
[edit | edit source]2013-2017
- Driving community change through campaigning: Open Democracy Project at the CC Summit, Apr 20, 2017...creativecommons.org
- New Sharing Depot Opening Reflects Success of Toronto's Library of Things Movement, Apr 10, 2017...Shareable
- Sharing Depot Brings Library of Things to Toronto, May 23, 2016...Shareable
- Metro Buses Converted Into Mobile Food Markets For Low Income Neighborhoods, Apr 19, 2016...blog.blackbusiness.org
- The forgotten space under a Toronto highway is becoming a huge park, Nov 20, 2015...fastcoexist.com
- How an Oven Changed the Fate of a Neglected Toronto Park, September 18, 2014...CityLab
- Toronto's reference library gets a makerspace, February 6, 2014...Boing Boing
- Bike Pirates recycles broken bikes to make cycling more accessible, September 4, 2013...treehugger.com
About Toronto
[edit | edit source]Past events
- June 6, 2015, 100in1day Toronto, transform your city
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on a harbour at the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is the fourth-most populous city in North America, behind Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles, with a census population of 2,794,356 as of 2021. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is constituted of Toronto proper and four surrounding regions, Peel, York, Durham, and Halton, and has a population of 6,712,341, while the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), with a somewhat different definition, has a population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2025). "Community action/Toronto". Appropedia. Retrieved May 31, 2026. |