Garden gifts and volunteering spread joy
Despite the pandemic, the Sustainabili-Team volunteers and the Sustainability Office planted vegetable gardens and distributed the produce throughout the summer.
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Maclean’s magazine features Dawson in 2-page spread
Dawson College, our environmental profiles in Social Science and Science and our Sustainability Office are featured in Maclean's 2021 Canadian Colleges Guidebook, now available in print on news stands across Canada.
A two-page spread on pages 38-39 features a report by Jennifer Lewington entitled Where green is all there is to be that is accompanied by a large photo of our Sustainabili-Team volunteers working in the Theatre Garden this summer. Jennifer spoke to Chris Adam of the Sustainability Office, faculty members Anna-Liisa Aunio and Brian Mader and student John Nathaniel Gertler, who mentioned that he switched to Dawson for our environmental offerings.
Drop by the Sustainability Office or Communications Office to consult a copy.
Dawson’s majestic trees to be replaced
Facilities Management hired a forest engineer to evaluate Dawson’s trees and nine showed major structural problems.
For safety reasons, they needed to be cut down. One native silver maple over 100 years old and four non-native Norway maples were cut on the Sherbrooke side of the building while other smaller chestnut trees and maples were cut on the Atwater Street side.
As part of Dawson’s climate action and landscape initiatives, a variety of large trees that are native to Quebec will be replacing the cut trees. They will be part of a tree planting effort to maximize shade on paved areas and cool our property during the summer months.
We will welcome these “living machines” that filter air, store carbon, produce oxygen and provide habitat for countless living things this Fall.
Photo credit: Debbie Resurreccion
Debbie says this photo is of a Norway maple, which was over 100 years old. Now, it serves as a nurse log and fosters biodiversity on campus.
Peace Week continues until this Friday
Peace Week continues until Friday, Sept. 25.
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Journal de Montréal features Dawson design graduate
Dawson Industrial Design graduate Alejandrina Hernandez was featured in the Journal de Montréal on Aug. 27. The Montreal newspaper covered the story from D News last May.
Click Read More for the Journal report, which features an interview with Dawson faculty member Michael Santella and Alejandrina.
Come Bixi with us!
Need good reasons to try cycling? Several of your colleagues have taken up Bixi’ing as a means to get to Dawson. Give it a try – Dawson is offering a one-month free trial! Get in touch with Richard Dugas of Facilities Management for more information about bicycle routes, deals or ideas or for other bicycle-related questions….
A great time to start biking to the College!
Facilities Management and Dawson 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,…
Peace Week 2020 is Sept. 13-25
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…
200 Monarch butterflies released at Dawson and around Montreal
This year the Sustainability Office did the Monarch Nursery project a little differently. Usually employees foster Monarch butterfly chrysalises as a team in their offices. This year, employees brought their chrysalises home to share the amazing experience with their families and neighbours. “During these unknown and different times, it seems the monarch chrysalises have brought…
Super Bixi bicycle special until June 30
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! Dawson wants to support you in your transit and would love to help you get cycling. As…
Last Modified: September 22, 2020
