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Industrial Design student’s project to help refugees wins international contest

May 5th, 2020

Third-year student Alejandrina Hernandez returned to her home country in late 2018 to visit family and friends, and the experience marked her. She was determined to do something in response to the humanitarian crisis she witnessed along the border of Venezuela and Colombia.

Read about Alejandrina's sustainable design award-winning cart/bed for refugees in our homepage news story in the read more link.


You + your bike can lower our carbon footprint!

May 5th, 2020

Our resident cycling enthusiast Richard Dugas of Facilities Management has pulled together advice and resources to encourage you to get on your bike this spring. Transport is one of Dawson's greatest causes of greenhouse gas emissions. Practice your itinerary on the quiet streets during the pandemic and come back to °®¶¹´«Ã½on your bike. Click read more for all the tips to get riding again.


Dawson’s Daycare continues to be Living Daycare online

May 5th, 2020

Jennifer de Vera of Dawson's Sustainability Office continues to meet her little friends and their parents during weekly Living Campus Zoom meetings.

Find out more about how Jennifer is cultivating an appreciation of nature (online) in the next generation in our homepage news story in the read more link.


Read more about: Sustainable Happiness Workshops

Sustainable Happiness Workshops

April 28th, 2020

Secure your spot in an upcoming Sustainable Happiness introductory course (3 hours) or the Sustainable Happiness Certificate (20 hours). The May session for support staff and professionals is already full. Please indicate your interest and get on the waiting list by emailing  sustainability@dawsonscollege.qc.ca Please indicate in your email which of the following courses you would…

Front page news for °®¶¹´«Ã½on Earth Day

April 28th, 2020

°®¶¹´«Ã½College made the

and also reported about Dawson's work to live well-being for all, sustainably and on our pledge to be Carbon Neutral Forever.


Take a video tour of our Living Campus in honour of Earth Day

April 21st, 2020

After watching the Living Campus guided tour video, Ivan Freud, Chair of Dawson's Religion Department, had this to say:

"As a teacher I have been involved with Dawson's Peace and Sustainability Communities for a number of years, and yet I was surprised to find some initiatives that I had never heard of in the latest Living Campus Orientation Video. What is being done in terms of peace and sustainability at °®¶¹´«Ã½is simply incredible! It makes me proud to be part of such a vibrant, visionary, creative, and caring community."

Why not celebrate Earth Day tomorrow by taking time to tour our Living Campus?

Click Read More to go to the Living Campus video.


Bixi discount for °®¶¹´«Ã½employees

April 21st, 2020

°®¶¹´«Ã½employees have a 15% discount on Bixi bike sharing memberships.

The regular annual fee is $97 and °®¶¹´«Ã½employees only pay $82.45, tax included.

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For information about using the Bixi service during the pandemic, visit: 


Read more about: Virtual Earth Week at Dawson

Virtual Earth Week at Dawson

April 21st, 2020

Tomorrow (April 22) is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which is usually celebrated in a big way at °®¶¹´«Ã½College with a week-long program of events. This year, Earth Week is going virtual at °®¶¹´«Ã½and all over the world: Virtual presentation by yogipreneur Bhaskar Goswami (pictured) on Wednesday, April 22 via ZOOM meeting…

Read more about: Making peace with the planet: sustainability, action, and peace

Making peace with the planet: sustainability, action, and peace

April 21st, 2020

The environment has long been the casualty of war, destruction, and ignorance. The violence of armed conflict not only annihilates humanity, shattering ways of life, it also devastates the environment as it becomes either collateral damage, or suffers from the deliberate destruction to accumulate power, leading to the “plunder[ing] of natural resources and the collapse…

Board game and e-book advancing sustainable campuses

April 7th, 2020

Gisela Frias (Coordinator of North-South Studies) was in Mexico last month to promote a board game and an e-book produced as part of the Sustainable Campuses Initiative.

Click Read More for the homepage news story.


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