Amanda Seraphina

How to build up the arts in your neighbourhood: Lessons from Mount Dennis youth

The Green Line team visited 4 The West End, a community-led arts organization, to learn how its programming is helping youth explore different art skills within their own communities.

How to reduce your climate impact with the right investments

 A local renewable energy co-operative helps Torontonians take action on climate change through investments in solar projects across Ontario.

How to increase tree cover in your neighbourhood: Lessons from Thorncliffe Park

The Green Line team visited Thorncliffe Park to learn how the Toronto Environmental Alliance, in partnership with Thorncliffe Park Urban Famers, is raising awareness on tree equity and empowering residents to take action.

How Little Jamaica is preserving local culture with Toronto’s first Black-led land trust

The Green Line team visited Briar Hill-Belgravia to learn how the Little Jamaica Community Land Trust is preserving local culture amid the Eglinton Crosstown LRT construction and development in the neighbourhood.

Tips from Downsview Airport on transforming underused urban areas into community spaces

The Green Line team visited Downsview Airport to learn how Northcrest Developments and the City of Toronto are revitalizing YZD, turning 370 acres of land into seven sustainable neighbourhoods over the next 30 years.

How to run a neighbourhood Pride parade: Tips from Taylor Massey

The Green Line team attended the East End Kids Pride parade at Dentonia Park on June 1, to learn how the grassroots organization, in partnership with East End Arts, is helping bring more queer festivities to Toronto’s east end.

How to build community for the unhoused and refugees: Lessons from a Davenport church

The Green Line team visited 322 Geary Ave. to learn how C3 Toronto is helping the unhoused, refugee claimants and those in transitional living find community through its brunch and clothing drive.

Tips from Glenfield-Jane Heights on how to build a youth entrepreneurship hub on wheels

The Green Line team visited Oakdale Community Centre to learn how social enterprise Urban Rez Solutions is curbing youth crime through mobile entrepreneurship classes.

How to build third spaces for youth through DIY skateparks

The Green Line team visited Christie Pits Park where Pits DIY, a local do-it-yourself skatepark group, is building community-funded concrete ramps that are safe and easy to train on.

How this organization is helping underserved youth access STEM through sports

The Green Line team visited St. Dorothy Catholic School to learn how one local group is teaching underserved youth about unique career pathways in STEM.