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Entries from July 2009

Lobster BOX

July 15th, 2009 1 Comment

Tasty lobster rolls in a shiny cool box!  Anyone try this shop out yet?  You have to watch the neat vid on their site.

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green ‘bin’ trial

July 15th, 2009 2 Comments

There is always room for improvement. Case in point; the original curbside recycling bins used across the island (save for the monsters used in the burbs…more on this later). A trial of 5000 newly designed laundry baskets recycling bins will be tested/abused over the next little while in an effort to hopefully improve […]

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now this is change

July 13th, 2009 No Comments

ok.  Quebecers went from using 5 million plastic bags a month to 1.5 million a month after major grocery stores started charging a nickel per.  Nice.  Here’s the next step/leap.  Time to move way past the small stuff and rethink our construction practices.  We don’t need to reinvent anything during the design process, there are […]

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Running on One D Cell

July 10th, 2009 1 Comment

It’s obvious that Alan’s raison d’etre is simply to pass all responsibility onto the province.  So here you go…

Alan DeSousa = Mayor of Ville St-Laurent (Check)
City of Montréal Executive Responsible for “sustainable development”
City of Montreal Executive Responsible for “Blaming Quebec for all that ails the City”
City of Montreal Executive Committee responsible for economic development
City […]

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