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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…

Solvent Recovery Initiative

The goal of the Solvent Recovery Initiative Team is to design protocols to recycle and reuse solvents in chemistry laboratories at Concordia. Starting as a team of 15 in the Howarth lab, they will extensively test different methods for recycling and purifying solvent waste like (1) simple filtration, (2) centrifugation, and (3) rotary evaporation. We…

Engaging Solarity

The Milieux Solar Media Project explores the affordances of solar energy for digital communication systems through research-creation and learning-by-doing. Against the backdrop of the Internet’s carbon footprint, our project is not only an exercise in decarbonizing data storage systems and web traffic, but also in envisioning and creating alternative solar-powered infrastructures and speculative designs. In…

Engineering Design & Manufacturing Lab Library of Parts

Concordia engineering students produce new capstone and extra-curricular projects every year, usually by purchasing parts they need brand new. While some projects require state-of-the-art resources, many teams are relegated to purchasing what they could have easily re-used. There is currently a wealth of used parts and materials left over from past projects being stored in…

Land As Our Teacher

Land as our Teacher (LAOT) is a 5-year research project that began in May 2019. It hopes to explore the benefits of land-based pedagogies for Indigenous youth/young people (16-29). The project has three main objectives: knowledge generation, mobilization, and translation. LAOT will offer land-based activities that provide teachings on our relationships to the land with…

CP3

Concordia Precious Plastic Project (CP3) is proposing a closed-loop recycling system within the university to internally address the plastic crisis. Our goal is to re-purpose Concordia University’s plastic waste on-site to create 3D printing filament, and other items needed by the students. CP3 is inspired by and follows the structure of a well-known global initiative…

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In the spring of 2019, in the context of the Sustainability Research Award and the Eric Saint Pierre Award, the creation of a collective organic garden was proposed on the Loyola campus. Receiving both awards allowed Project Leader, Andrea Tremblay to launch the mind.heart.mouth. garden in June 2019. After a successful first year in 2019,…
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