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GREEN WINTERCONTACT
Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating the THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
DINNER WITH A STRANGER 307 Responses: 155 Comments and 152 Tweets. Franke James says: March 9, 2009 at 10:11 am. Jennifer, Yes! Dinner with a Stranger could certainly work at a restaurant. And for many people they’d be more comfortable in a public place rather than opening up their home. WHY COAL IS THE BADDEST FOSSIL FUEL… BUT NO GREEN LIGHT In his article The Alberta oil sands and climate, co-authored with Neil Swart, coal is the ‘ baddest ‘ of all the fossil fuels. Weaver and Swart conclude that the burning of the dirty tar sands oil is not going to have a significant impact: “the warming would be almost undetectable at our significance level.”. THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically go FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTAGREEN WINTERCONTACT
Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating the THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
DINNER WITH A STRANGER 307 Responses: 155 Comments and 152 Tweets. Franke James says: March 9, 2009 at 10:11 am. Jennifer, Yes! Dinner with a Stranger could certainly work at a restaurant. And for many people they’d be more comfortable in a public place rather than opening up their home. WHY COAL IS THE BADDEST FOSSIL FUEL… BUT NO GREEN LIGHT In his article The Alberta oil sands and climate, co-authored with Neil Swart, coal is the ‘ baddest ‘ of all the fossil fuels. Weaver and Swart conclude that the burning of the dirty tar sands oil is not going to have a significant impact: “the warming would be almost undetectable at our significance level.”. THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically goABOUT FRANKE JAMES
About Franke James. Franke James is a Canadian activist, artist, author, and songwriter focused on the environment, human rights and free expression.. ACTIVIST ARTIST & AUTHOR James is the author of three books: Banned on the Hill (2013), Bothered By My Green Conscience (2009) and Dear Office-Politics (2009). In 2015, she was awarded the inaugural PEN Canada / Ken Filkow Prize for herVISUAL ESSAYS
Art Exhibit – Franke James in Perspectives on the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James onVimeo. Play.
ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, andDESTROY TO CREATE
Destroy to Create. by Franke James. We must destroy — in order to create our green driveway. That reality hit me as the big yellow bobcat arrived at our house and started digging up and disposing of the compacted soil, gravel, limestone and sand that had been sitting undisturbed for 20 years.PARIS WAS GREAT…
Synopsis: Two best buddy bottles while on “Vacation” find themselves on an unknown beach and to their surprise find an old friend who’s had quite the journey of his own to get there. Directed by: Christopher Axworthy & Robert Peacock; Country: Great Britain. YouTube. Mobile Film Festival. 24K subscribers. 6 TOOLS TO MAKE CLIMATE CHANGE ART Rarely do the talents of a professional artist and educator come together in equal measure as they do in the work of Franke James. Her Six Tools for Climate Change presentation at the McMichael was the ideal vehicle for presenting complex material in a compelling and accessible format for everyone in attendance.. Franke has the rare skill of presenting important abstract concepts with VIDEO: BANNED ON THE HILL (AND IN EUROPE!) Good for you Franke! You may find yourself in years to come feeling a sense of pride being on this frightened government’s blacklist, much the same as the ‘communists’ who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the US in the 50’s. GREEN DRIVEWAY: PLAYING WITH PERCEPTION AND REALITY It is a concrete product that allows the grass to grow up between it. It can look quite nice if you take care of the grass. I will be posting my 7th article in the next few days about the Green Driveway project and the grass we’ll be using. It’s called Eco-Lawn and it GREEN LIVING MAGAZINE WRITES: “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Franke James, artist, author and speaker, is profiled in the Fall 2009 issue of Green Living Magazine. The issue urges Canadians “to take a stand” and challenges them to become greener citizens. ( Download the pdf.) “Canadians want to do more for the environment than the proverbial ‘changing of lightbulbs,’ ” says Lindsay Borthwick NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION: DON’T DRINK OUT OF LEAD CRYSTAL New Year’s Resolution: Don’t drink out of lead crystal. by Franke James. Are you making any New Year’s resolutions for 2008? New Year’s resolutions are often hard to keep but my first one is easy and green: Stop drinking wine out of leaded crystal stemware. This won’t be too hard, as many of our crystal wine glasses have brokenover the years.
FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTAGREEN WINTERCONTACT
Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating the THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and VIDEO: BANNED ON THE HILL (AND IN EUROPE!) Good for you Franke! You may find yourself in years to come feeling a sense of pride being on this frightened government’s blacklist, much the same as the ‘communists’ who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the US in the 50’s. HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
DINNER WITH A STRANGER 307 Responses: 155 Comments and 152 Tweets. Franke James says: March 9, 2009 at 10:11 am. Jennifer, Yes! Dinner with a Stranger could certainly work at a restaurant. And for many people they’d be more comfortable in a public place rather than opening up their home. THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically go FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTAGREEN WINTERCONTACT
Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating the THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and VIDEO: BANNED ON THE HILL (AND IN EUROPE!) Good for you Franke! You may find yourself in years to come feeling a sense of pride being on this frightened government’s blacklist, much the same as the ‘communists’ who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the US in the 50’s. HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
DINNER WITH A STRANGER 307 Responses: 155 Comments and 152 Tweets. Franke James says: March 9, 2009 at 10:11 am. Jennifer, Yes! Dinner with a Stranger could certainly work at a restaurant. And for many people they’d be more comfortable in a public place rather than opening up their home. THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically goABOUT FRANKE JAMES
About Franke James. Franke James is a Canadian activist, artist, author, and songwriter focused on the environment, human rights and free expression.. ACTIVIST ARTIST & AUTHOR James is the author of three books: Banned on the Hill (2013), Bothered By My Green Conscience (2009) and Dear Office-Politics (2009). In 2015, she was awarded the inaugural PEN Canada / Ken Filkow Prize for herVISUAL ESSAYS
Art Exhibit – Franke James in Perspectives on the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James onVimeo. Play.
ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, andDESTROY TO CREATE
Destroy to Create. by Franke James. We must destroy — in order to create our green driveway. That reality hit me as the big yellow bobcat arrived at our house and started digging up and disposing of the compacted soil, gravel, limestone and sand that had been sitting undisturbed for 20 years.PARIS WAS GREAT…
Synopsis: Two best buddy bottles while on “Vacation” find themselves on an unknown beach and to their surprise find an old friend who’s had quite the journey of his own to get there. Directed by: Christopher Axworthy & Robert Peacock; Country: Great Britain. YouTube. Mobile Film Festival. 24K subscribers. VIDEO: BANNED ON THE HILL (AND IN EUROPE!) Good for you Franke! You may find yourself in years to come feeling a sense of pride being on this frightened government’s blacklist, much the same as the ‘communists’ who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the US in the 50’s. GREEN DRIVEWAY: PLAYING WITH PERCEPTION AND REALITY It is a concrete product that allows the grass to grow up between it. It can look quite nice if you take care of the grass. I will be posting my 7th article in the next few days about the Green Driveway project and the grass we’ll be using. It’s called Eco-Lawn and it GREEN LIVING MAGAZINE WRITES: “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Franke James, artist, author and speaker, is profiled in the Fall 2009 issue of Green Living Magazine. The issue urges Canadians “to take a stand” and challenges them to become greener citizens. ( Download the pdf.) “Canadians want to do more for the environment than the proverbial ‘changing of lightbulbs,’ ” says Lindsay Borthwick A GREEN WINTER: WILL GLOBAL WARMING BE GOOD FOR CANADA Global Warming is a very complex problem — but one solution is for the world community to lobby China and India to stop burning dirty coal, and emitting methane from rice paddies. Canada should raise the price of gas to $2.00 a litre and give a corresponding tax break to NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION: DON’T DRINK OUT OF LEAD CRYSTAL New Year’s Resolution: Don’t drink out of lead crystal. by Franke James. Are you making any New Year’s resolutions for 2008? New Year’s resolutions are often hard to keep but my first one is easy and green: Stop drinking wine out of leaded crystal stemware. This won’t be too hard, as many of our crystal wine glasses have brokenover the years.
FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTA GREEN WINTERCONTACTFRANKIE JAMES FACEBOOKFRANKIE JAMES OBITUARYFRANKIE JAMES BANDFRANKIE JAMES GRANDEFRANKIE JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND How to Build a Green Driveway in a Long Weekend. by Franke James “Whose big idea was it to build a green driveway anyway?” I jokingly asked my husband, Bill, as we shoveled chip gravel into a rickety wheelbarrow for the 120th time that day. ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and TURN OFF THAT LIGHT, DUMMY! We finally gave it the heave-ho in September. More room in the basement now! #3. We turned off lights whenever we left a room. It’s a habit that’s easy to pick up if you think about money being wasted. #4. We switched to the new curly (CFL) light bulbs. But we also have lots of Halogen lights, so that didn’t make a bigdifference. #5.
THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically go GREEN LIVING MAGAZINE WRITES: “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Franke James, artist, author and speaker, is profiled in the Fall 2009 issue of Green Living Magazine. The issue urges Canadians “to take a stand” and challenges them to become greener citizens. ( Download the pdf.) “Canadians want to do more for the environment than the proverbial ‘changing of lightbulbs,’ ” says Lindsay Borthwick FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTA GREEN WINTERCONTACTFRANKIE JAMES FACEBOOKFRANKIE JAMES OBITUARYFRANKIE JAMES BANDFRANKIE JAMES GRANDEFRANKIE JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND How to Build a Green Driveway in a Long Weekend. by Franke James “Whose big idea was it to build a green driveway anyway?” I jokingly asked my husband, Bill, as we shoveled chip gravel into a rickety wheelbarrow for the 120th time that day. ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and TURN OFF THAT LIGHT, DUMMY! We finally gave it the heave-ho in September. More room in the basement now! #3. We turned off lights whenever we left a room. It’s a habit that’s easy to pick up if you think about money being wasted. #4. We switched to the new curly (CFL) light bulbs. But we also have lots of Halogen lights, so that didn’t make a bigdifference. #5.
THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically go GREEN LIVING MAGAZINE WRITES: “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Franke James, artist, author and speaker, is profiled in the Fall 2009 issue of Green Living Magazine. The issue urges Canadians “to take a stand” and challenges them to become greener citizens. ( Download the pdf.) “Canadians want to do more for the environment than the proverbial ‘changing of lightbulbs,’ ” says Lindsay Borthwick FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISM Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence”VISUAL ESSAYS
Art Exhibit – Franke James in Perspectives on the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James onVimeo. Play.
ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and PLANTING & SEEDING OUR GREEN DRIVEWAY Think of it as an affordable way to help the environment, and beautify your property. The grand total for our entire landscaping project was $10,500, with the costs for the driveway portion being 10% of that – about $1,500. Take note that we saved thousands by doing A PAPER BAG PRINCESS? A Paper Bag Princess? by Franke James. The ending of the Paper Bag Princess always had my kids roaring with approval. It’s when ‘Princess’ Elizabeth gets to tell ‘Prince’ Ronald what she really thinks of him. “Your clothes are really pretty, and your hairis very
CITYTV BRINGS ‘ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL’ NORTH YORK BYLAWS TO CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention. by Franke James. Image from CityTV interview. See the clip on their site. The power of the press went to work yesterday to help us fight the climate crisis at the local level. THE GREEN INTERVIEW: FROM CONSCIENCE TO CENSORSHIP, SILVER Sitting down with Silver Don for my Green Interview in Halifax, was really a fun experience. Don made me feel very comfortable and really pulled out some key thoughts on my brand of green activism — his questions covered the full scope of my environmental storytelling, from the use of conscience to inspire personal action, to the impact of censorship in Canada and in my personal life as well. AGO: A TRIBE CALLED RED: POWER TO CHANGE THE POLITICAL Location: AGO 1st Thursday, Feb.7/13 I kept thinking: Does Stephen Harper have any idea the power that A Tribe Called Red is unleashing?. What was extraordinary was that this wasn’t a political event. It was the Art Gallery of Ontario, where a large crowd had gathered to hear A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) play their unique blend of Aboriginal “Pow Wow” music and contemporary club music. PEN CANADA AND THE WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA EXPRESS PEN Canada and the Writers’ Union of Canada have expressed their concern over the Government censorship. “The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest,” said Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada, “To do so is clearly not in the spirit of the Charter and the long history TOWARDS A CARBON NEUTRAL FIELD TURF AT UPPER CANADA Towards a Carbon Neutral Field Turf at Upper Canada College. Upper Canada College (UCC) in Toronto recently decided to replace one of its natural grass playing fields (“The Oval” field) with a new, state-of-the-art, artificial turf surface. This synthetic surface will FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTA GREEN WINTERCONTACTFRANKIE JAMES FACEBOOKFRANKIE JAMES OBITUARYFRANKIE JAMES BANDFRANKIE JAMES GRANDEFRANKIE JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
PARIS WAS GREAT…
Synopsis: Two best buddy bottles while on “Vacation” find themselves on an unknown beach and to their surprise find an old friend who’s had quite the journey of his own to get there. Directed by: Christopher Axworthy & Robert Peacock; Country: Great Britain. YouTube. Mobile Film Festival. 24K subscribers. HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating theDESTROY TO CREATE
Destroy to Create. by Franke James. We must destroy — in order to create our green driveway. That reality hit me as the big yellow bobcat arrived at our house and started digging up and disposing of the compacted soil, gravel, limestone and sand that had been sitting undisturbed for 20 years. TURN OFF THAT LIGHT, DUMMY! We finally gave it the heave-ho in September. More room in the basement now! #3. We turned off lights whenever we left a room. It’s a habit that’s easy to pick up if you think about money being wasted. #4. We switched to the new curly (CFL) light bulbs. But we also have lots of Halogen lights, so that didn’t make a bigdifference. #5.
THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically go FRANKE JAMES : ENVIRONMENTAL ART & ACTIVISMFRANKE JAMESNEWSABOUTA GREEN WINTERCONTACTFRANKIE JAMES FACEBOOKFRANKIE JAMES OBITUARYFRANKIE JAMES BANDFRANKIE JAMES GRANDEFRANKIE JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY Banned on the Hill Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship. Paris was great Book Review: “Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence” OUR DISPOSABLE WORLD Our Disposable World. by Franke James. To kick off Earth Week, I presented “Our Disposable World” to students at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Below are highlights from my presentation — told in visual essay style.. We throw so much garbage in the ocean, there’s a floating island of trash in the Pacific that is as big asTexas!
PARIS WAS GREAT…
Synopsis: Two best buddy bottles while on “Vacation” find themselves on an unknown beach and to their surprise find an old friend who’s had quite the journey of his own to get there. Directed by: Christopher Axworthy & Robert Peacock; Country: Great Britain. YouTube. Mobile Film Festival. 24K subscribers. HOW TO BUILD A GREEN DRIVEWAY IN A LONG WEEKEND But the pretty green PermaTURF isn’t intended to stay visible. So in Step 6, we filled the panels with a mixture of 30% sand and 70% loam (see below). With that mix of sand and loam on top you’d never know the panels were under there. The final step in creating theDESTROY TO CREATE
Destroy to Create. by Franke James. We must destroy — in order to create our green driveway. That reality hit me as the big yellow bobcat arrived at our house and started digging up and disposing of the compacted soil, gravel, limestone and sand that had been sitting undisturbed for 20 years. TURN OFF THAT LIGHT, DUMMY! We finally gave it the heave-ho in September. More room in the basement now! #3. We turned off lights whenever we left a room. It’s a habit that’s easy to pick up if you think about money being wasted. #4. We switched to the new curly (CFL) light bulbs. But we also have lots of Halogen lights, so that didn’t make a bigdifference. #5.
THE GREEN DRIVEWAY ARTICLES The Green Driveway Articles. by Franke James. Spring 2007 to Summer 2008. Anti-green recommendations & Mayor Miller (May 2007). CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention (May 2007). How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall (May 2007). Destroy to Create (June 2007). Green Driveway: Playing with Perception and Reality (July 2007) HOW MY ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM CITY How my Eco-friendly Driveway got the Green Light from City Hall. by Franke James. How difficult can building an Eco-friendly driveway be? I thought it would be easy, since everybody knows that Toronto wants to be the ‘greenest’ city in North America. But in our tree-lined, asphalted, concrete corner of central Toronto (North York) it has been a complicated adventure, and not for the faint ARE GRASS DRIVEWAYS THE NEW TREND? Grass driveways (which incorporate high-tech plastic pavers) have been around for over a decade but mass adoption has been slow in coming. Now with growing concern over global warming and the impact of polluted stormwater that could be changing. ( Riversides.org reports that stormwater is the leading cause of water pollution in urbanareas.)
THE SCARY CANADA-CHINA TRADE DEAL THAT WILL HAUNT US FOR No, it’s the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), which is slated to come into force on November 2nd, binding Canada for 31 years. Shockingly, the most significant trade agreement since NAFTA is set to automatically goVISUAL ESSAYS
Art Exhibit – Franke James in Perspectives on the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James onVimeo. Play.
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6 TOOLS TO MAKE CLIMATE CHANGE ART Rarely do the talents of a professional artist and educator come together in equal measure as they do in the work of Franke James. Her Six Tools for Climate Change presentation at the McMichael was the ideal vehicle for presenting complex material in a compelling and accessible format for everyone in attendance.. Franke has the rare skill of presenting important abstract concepts with ALL SEASON ECO-FRIENDLY DRIVEWAY All Season Eco-friendly Driveway. by Franke James. Views of our Green Driveway in all seasons: In the Spring of 2007 we decided to rip up our interlocking brick driveway which spanned the entire 34 ft of our property and replace it with a 10 ft. wide permeable driveway, and I LOVE MY FREEDOM TO READ WHATEVER I WANT! I love my freedom to read whatever I want! by Franke James. The Harper Government didn’t know what doors they opened for me by stomping on my right to free expression, and censoring my art in 2011.. Recently, I was honoured to be invited to create an illustration for Freedom to Read Week 2015. Digging into the assignment, I realized that I was part of a vibrant activist art movement that has GASOLINE BREAKUP: MOBILE MOVIE OF THE WEEK Woohoo! Our “ Gasoline Breakup ” music video is featured as the “ Mobile Movie of the Week “. The love affair with gasoline is ending so we wrote a song about it and made a one-minute movie on our mobile phones. Murray Suid wrote, “It’s a cliche that modern people love their cars. The songwriting team of Franke James & BilliamJames
GREEN LIVING MAGAZINE WRITES: “THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Franke James, artist, author and speaker, is profiled in the Fall 2009 issue of Green Living Magazine. The issue urges Canadians “to take a stand” and challenges them to become greener citizens. ( Download the pdf.) “Canadians want to do more for the environment than the proverbial ‘changing of lightbulbs,’ ” says Lindsay Borthwick JUDITH SCOTT WAS LOCKED AWAY IN AN INSTITUTION FOR 35 Judith Scott was locked away in an institution for 35 years. Her art now hangs in the MoMA. by Franke James. Originally published on Rabble. A magnificent talent was almost destroyed by social prejudice masked as “care.” DINNER WITH A STRANGER 307 Responses: 155 Comments and 152 Tweets. Franke James says: March 9, 2009 at 10:11 am. Jennifer, Yes! Dinner with a Stranger could certainly work at a restaurant. And for many people they’d be more comfortable in a public place rather than opening up their home. CITYTV BRINGS ‘ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL’ NORTH YORK BYLAWS TO CityTV brings ‘Anti-environmental’ North York bylaws to Mayor’s attention. by Franke James. Image from CityTV interview. See the clip on their site. The power of the press went to work yesterday to help us fight the climate crisis at the local level.FRANKE JAMES
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