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Food For Thought

The Food for Thought Awareness Campaign is an opportunity for us to connect with the students in the Grey Nuns residence in order to better understand their food waste habits. By focusing solely on the cafeteria, we hope to engage with its consumers in meaningful conversations about food, hopefully gaining some insight into their relationship…

mind. heart. mouth.

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The mind.heart.mouth intergenerational garden offers a positive and innovative approach to building community care and resilience through nature-based experiential learning, which is essential at this time of health, social, and environmental crises. Since its creation in 2019, mind.heart.mouth has gotten most of its help from SAF and the Sustainability Living Lab. This support has made…

Co-op CultivAction

Market Garden InternshipCSA BasketUrban Agriculture SchoolMarket Garden Internship In partnership with the Concordia Food Coalition, Professor Erik Chevrier and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, CultivAction Solidarity Cooperative proposes to offer five students paid internships, for credit, to work with the Concordia Microgreens Program, Loyola Farm and the Concordia Farmers Market. Students will get…

Hamidou Horticulture

Hamidou Horticulture is an enterprise which produces and sells ancient and international-native agricultural products such as plants and seedlings. Hamidou Horticulture has a mission to produce, in an ecologically responsible manner, products that many immigrants in Montréal may not have access to. The enterprise also aims to teach how to grow and consume ethnically diverse…

Reform Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program Panel

Canada takes pride in its Charter of Rights and Freedom; however, these rights and freedoms are not present in some of Canada’s main industries. Indeed, Canada has a history of abusing and exploiting its foreign temporary workers. Starting in the 19th century, Canada’s federal government brought in Chinese migrants to work on our famous railways.…

Hydropony

The wastewater filtration system we aim to build is for the hydroponic culture in Quebec. The system will allow recirculation of the effluent after passing through a biofilm filtration system (either made of mushroom, algae, bacteria, or others to be analyzed). This filtration will remove the contaminant and will give back the nutrients left out…

Connect, Communicate, Cultivate: Mapping the Community Food System in NDG

This action research project is working to Connect, Communicate and Cultivate partnerships between community organizations (including Concordia student groups) working on local-level food security and food sovereignty initiatives. The information gathered in this research-action project will live in a detailed and living map of the community food system in Notre-Dame-de-Grace, surrounding the Loyola campus .…

Le Frigo Vert’s Food Basket

The pandemic has exacerbated the effects of food insecurity in the Concordia and greater Montreal communities. Because of this, Le Frigo Vert has been handing out pay what you can (PWYC) food baskets to those who need them. The continents of the baskets are all vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free depending on the recipient’s dietary restrictions.…

iGEM

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2020-20212019-20202016-20172013-20142020-2021 Veggie burgers, algae shrimp, vegan cheeses, synthetic flavors, and animal-free egg whites are making their way into our restaurants and supermarket shelves. What consumers may not realize, however, is that many of these foods are made using synthetic biology, an emerging science that applies principles of genetic engineering to redesign organisms for useful purposes.…

Planet Based Cooking

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A plant-based cooking, nutrition and environmental education program, created for Concordia students – with consideration and inclusion of all  cultural backgrounds. The function of the program is to offer students a foundation on healthy and sustainable cooking and how these choices impact one’s body, as well as the environment. YEARS FUNDED 2019-20 AMOUNT ALLOCATED $1,200.00…
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