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Study in Action

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Study in Action is an undergraduate conference designed to link students and community activism. The conference is a space for undergraduate students to present research, develop greater knowledge of social and environmental issues and build ties with community organizations.  Organized by a collective of students through QPIRG Concordia. The goal of the Study In Action…

R4 Mug Loan

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The Mug-loan Project’s purpose is to establish a system that will promote and increase the use of re-usable mugs at Concordia University. As disposable cups are related to an industry that promote unsustainable single use practices, and the Hug-A-Mug campaign (designed to curb this practice) was an ongoing effort between the CSU and Sustainable Concordia’s R4…

Engineers Without Borders

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Engineers Without Borders at Concordia University as well as other universities across Canada and our National Office (EWB Canada in Toronto) are working together on a project called Global Engineering (GE). At Concordia University, EWB is working with professors from the Centre of Engineering in Society (CES) to have the GE program introduced in ENCS…

Enactus: Eco-Youth Program

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Eco-Youth is a collaborative gardening program in partnership with Innovation Youth, a local youth center that provides help and support to teenagers age 12 to 24. With Eco-Youth we want to provide these young adults with an opportunity to fully run a sustainable gardening program in which all harvested crops would be given to given…

Computational Arts (WRAPT)

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Since the beginning of the Design and Computation Arts departments there has been a year end show to exhibit the culminated work of the current students in these programs. Each winter semester this year-end exhibit is an important showcase that reflects the evolving nature of design and computation as a cross-disciplinary field of research, practice…

ASFA Talks

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ASFA Talks was a speaker series open to all students that will tackle issues within the Arts and Science disciplines. It sought to bring innovative speakers to inspire students and encourage them to think outside the box. The meta-theme of the talks was the concept of sustainability and how a vast variety of realms are necessarily connected…

Alternative Libraries

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Alternative Libraries is a network of Montreal area, grassroots lending libraries that have pooled their collections into a single, publicly accessible online database. We are community organizations located on or near Concordia, McGill or UQÀM campuses. The libraries include books, periodicals, zines, films, and audio, on topics of social and environmental justice. We operate as…

Allégo

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Allégo was a sustainable transportation working group of Sustainable Concordia, which worked in collaboration with both Concordia’s Facilities Management and Sustainable Concordia to promote alternatives to private car transportation in the Concordia community. Its goal was to make the streets safer for pedestrians, cyclists, and carpoolers. Funding was allocated to Allégo in support of the Commuter Habit Survey, a…

Bread & Puppet Theatre Project

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Since 2008, Concordia’s Department of Theatre has organized a biennial, three-credit course wherein a group of students have the opportunity to study at Bread and Puppet Theatre at their farm in Glover, Vermont. This year, because of budget cuts and the implementation of a new curriculum, the theatre department was not able to offer the course as planned.…

Countdown 2 Degrees Climate Clock

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The project goal is to set up a projector at Bethune Sq, (facing the building located at 2157 Rue Guy which overlooks Boulevard de Maisonneuve) depicting several metrics, one of which will be a clock counting down the time left until we have breached the 2°C limit (For the prototype version go to countdown2degrees.com). The aim of the project is…
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