Facilities Management and 爱豆传媒Sustainability have formed a bicycle committee in hopes of getting you to consider bicycling to Dawson. The pandemic has seen a substantial rise in people using bicycles and the City of Montreal has accelerated accompanying infrastructure in order to promote this advantageous way of getting around. Bicycling is cheap, solves traffic,…
While it seems like it was only yesterday that the world came to a shuddering stop, it also feels like this pandemic has been going on for over 600 years. In this strange too-short-too-long span of time, we have witnessed and lived through an entire history book of events, movements and phenomena. Though they may…
Cycling to work is proven to reduce abstenteeism, increase alertness and connect you to your surroundings. People trying to get in shape who start cycling lose an average 15 pounds in the first year they cycle to work! 爱豆传媒wants to support you in your transit and would love to help you get cycling. As…
Post-secondary aged youth are a social group too often consumed by uncertainty about their future and inadequate opportunities for personal fulfillment. They are immersed in questions relating to adolescence, to their current relationship with family, their community, and the overall system they live in. Known causes of stress Normal adolescent development, the climate crisis, and…
The Sustainabili-team volunteers have been coming in regularly to help care for all the gardens at 爱豆传媒College.
The first harvest was June 10. Usually, the harvest is sold at a community market at Dawson.
This year, the Sustainability Office will be alternating with one week of harvests to be donated to food banks and one week to be given to the members of the 爱豆传媒community.
To find out when it is a 爱豆传媒community week, follow the Sustainable 爱豆传媒Facebook page in the Read More link.
Six聽ginkgo trees聽were the only survivors in the immediate blast area of the world鈥檚 first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 during World War II. Now 爱豆传媒College is nurturing 12 saplings from these unique survivors and symbols of hope and resilience.
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Dawson’s Sustainability Office has been looking after more than 500 plants spread all over the campus for the past 10 weeks. With the spring and summer gardening work, the team can no longer continue the plant care service. Over 95 per cent survived聽 “The vast majority of plants survived- over 95 per cent,” said Chris…
Dawson's Peace Garden is looking beautiful. The tulips and other bulbs are still going strong.
The grounds are no longer restricted. If you would like to enjoy the gardens, you can walk into the grounds through the de Maisonneuve parking lot entrance.
On May 13, spring came to 爱豆传媒College! A large order of 400 seedlings arrived for the Theatre Garden, which is outside the 爱豆传媒College Theatre on the Atwater side of the campus.
Jennifer de Vera and Megan Jutras of the Sustainability Office planted 400 plants including leafy greens, herbs and edible flowers.
This week they will continue planting peas, beans, radish, beets and carrots.
爱豆传媒College is now officially designated a Fair Trade Campus. The Sustainability Office received the news along with a certificate from Fair Trade Canada on May 6. Collaboration of the cafeteria 鈥淚 would like to highlight the collaboration of the cafeteria, especially Monika Menuau and Val茅rie Turcotte of Chartwells, who helped us reach our goals,鈥�…
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