For years, the Alexis-Nihon shopping centre across the street has been like a second home to the ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± community β from dashing over (through the tunnel in bad weather) for lunch to getting groceries or doing a little shopping. ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± will see an extension of its relationship with Alexis-Nihon once again this holiday season when…
Foragers and those who enjoy gourmet food know that it is mushroom season in Quebec.
ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± students are also hunting for mushrooms as part of a project to identify as many kinds of life on campus as possible.
The Sustainability Office created a new nurse tree garden, a biodiversity zone in the P1 parking lot area. They used tree trunks and branches from the property to create this habitat and also injected spores into some large stumps around the campus.
The Sustainabili-Team volunteers have now identified 19 species of mushroom, including chicken of the woods (pictured).
ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±βs mushroom inventory is part of a larger biodiversity project on campus that will be announced in the new year.
Parents of first-year students were invited to an information session online on Sept. 7 and were offered an opportunity to tour the College and learn about our Living Campus on Sept. 15. The info session included presentations by Environmental Science student Narcisse X, Biology teacher Brian Mader and Yanina Chukhovich of the First-Year Studentsβ Office….
We would like to thank all those who were involved in taking care of their Monarch Butterfly chrysalises until they e-closed (transformed to a butterfly) in late August and early September. It is always so heartwarming to see the community meet outside in the Peace Garden every day at noon during that week to tag…
Time to reap the fruit of our labour with this very hands-on honey extraction workshop. A beekeeper will assist you over the course of this fun-filled hour as you uncap honeycomb cells, hand-spin honeycombs in the centrifugal extractor, and filter the raw honey before jarring and labelling it all! This event takes places on Oct. 14 at 12 p.m. Contact Jennifer De Vera for more info: jdevera@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
A class of over 25 students reclaimed a concrete heat island on ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±βs urban campus by transforming it into a wetland as part of a unique-in-Canada Physical Education course. The brand-new Eco-Landscaping course was co-developed by ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±βs Physical Education Department and the Sustainability Office.
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ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±βs Living Campus concept has influenced other schools and organizations to become Living Schools, Work Places and even Churches/Places of Worship.
Rev. Neil Whitehouse of Westmount Park United Church wrote a letter to the editor in the to congratulate ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± on being recognized as a leader in sustainability:
βHuge congratulations to ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± on recognition of their tremendous work towards sustainable living (). My church is a Living Church as ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± is a Living Campus, and we both have special ginkgo trees.β
In an annual tradition that never fails to awe employees and students with the beauty of Nature, the Sustainability Office distributed 100 Monarch Butterfly chrysalises to employees throughout the College, including to the staff of the First-Year Studentsβ Office, pictured.
βTaking care of the butterflies together helps us take care of each other and Nature,β said Jenn de Vera, project lead. βThis is the most wonderful time of the year at ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±! Our priority is to involve new people every year and spread the joy.β
At the time of publishing D News, a little more than half the chrysalises had eclosed and all were expected to eclose by the weekend. Every day at 12 p.m. this week, butterflies will be released in the Peace Garden. All are welcome.
To see a little video of the release on Sept. 6, check out ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±'s Facebook post:
From a field of 56 finalists, many from large universities in 19 countries around the world, ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± was named Sustainability Institution of the Year by the Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education at a virtual awards ceremony in early July.
For the news release and a new video about ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½±'s Living Campus, click Read More.
During the pandemic, gardening was deemed essential, however for safety reasons the Sustainability department had only a handful of volunteers. Priority was given to the vegetable gardens so they could donate their harvest to local food banks and the ΖίΠΗ²ΚΏͺ½± community. It is now time to give back to the Peace Garden. There is an…
Last Modified: November 30, 2022
