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Pledge to Lead

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Under the Paris Agreement, the world has pledged to limit global temperature increases with the aim of avoiding the worst potential impacts of unmitigated global warming. This goal will require a major societal transformation, leading to the rapid elimination of greenhouse gas emissions. We, as individuals in the Concordia community, have a key role to…

SHED

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The SHED aims to promote a culture of change around reuse through furniture upcycling, tool literacy and collaborative consumption. In its full form, the SHED will provide an accessible space to transform and repair usable but previously unwanted materials, with a key focus on furniture. Members will be invited to participate in a series of…

School Schmool

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Beginning in 1994, School Schmool sought to bring together information, profiles of student and community groups, as well as practical tools of use to all students, in particular to those interested in social justice, equity, and sustainability issues. The purpose of School Schmool is to publish an accessible, recyclable, advertising-free, activist day planner for students. Our mandate…

Waste Not, Want Not Compost Project

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“Waste Not, Want Not” is a collaboration between students, faculty (Loyola Sustainability Research Center, LSRC), and administration, to better integrate composting in everything that we do. We propose a 3-track approach to establishing a complete compost cycle at Concordia: a) Access to composters, and qualified operators, within reach (currently Concordia composts at a facility in…

Post-Capitalist Archive

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The goal of this project is to provide an array of viewpoints about how to develop a post-capitalist society by interviewing and making available video interviews with experts in the field. The videos will be hosted on a website (domain to be determined) and on a YouTube channel. Montreal, especially Concordia, has been at the…

Ethical Textile Design Project

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This research/project is influenced by this following observation: we (Western society) are an over-consuming society, and it has huge negative impacts on Earth and its human and non- human inhabitants. I am doing a research on diverse fabrics made from natural and manufactured fibers to better understand the material used to make specific fabrics, and…

Graduate Symposium: Education with Impact

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On March 10, 2018, the Department of Education graduate students will host our annual interdisciplinary symposium. The mission of the Graduate Symposium of the Department of Education (GSDE) is to provide students from Concordia and other universities with the opportunity to present their original research, develop interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration, and support academic endeavors. The…

Electrode

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The initial concept for the project was realized when the team became aware of the accumulation of large amounts scrap aluminum from laboratory experiments. These materials were often left to await recycling; however, the school did not have a device which could recycle or repurpose these metals in place. In the mechanical engineering discipline, casting…

Animating the Future

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Animating the Future is a special one-day, one-time only event that comprises a series of community-building activities designed to support and highlight the contributions of students, new scholars, and emerging independent artists who study and create animated media as a critical form of artistic expression. It will take place on June 18, 2018, the day…

JSEC Sustainability Case Competition

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JSEC’s Concordia Sustainability Case Competition (SCC) in collaboration with TéoTaxi is a unique initiative that gives over 120 students from Concordia and Montreal universities the opportunity to work on issues related to sustainable entrepreneurship. Teams are given a real-life case provided by TéoTaxi and have to come up with solutions that they will present in…
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