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 Dawson 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 Dawson community.
To find out when it is a Dawson community week, follow the Sustainable Dawson Facebook page in the Read More link.
Six ginkgo trees were the only survivors in the immediate blast area of the world’s first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 during World War II. Now Dawson College is nurturing 12 saplings from these unique survivors and symbols of hope and resilience.
Find out more in the homepage news story by clicking Read More.
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 “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 Dawson College! A large order of 400 seedlings arrived for the Theatre Garden, which is outside the Dawson 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.
Dawson 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 “I would like to highlight the collaboration of the cafeteria, especially Monika Menuau and Valérie Turcotte of Chartwells, who helped us reach our goals,”…
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.
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 Dawson on your bike. Click read more for all the tips to get riding again.
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.
Last Modified: June 16, 2020
