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The Corvée du Mont-Royal is an annual event put on by Les Amis de la montagne where groups of people help beautify the mountain by picking-up garbage and planting new trees. On May 2nd, a few students from our Green Team got involved. The instructions were simple: pick up garbage and, for safety reasons, dismantle [...] Another year has passed since our last Earth Day and Environment Week at LCC. Unfortunately, on the global scale it’s easy to feel gloomy about the general state of the environment. Climate change is a huge topic, and while politicians around the world debate the issues—as they did at the Copenhagen Conference last December [...] Given that what we eat has a large impact on the environment, the LCC Sustainability Committee is reviewing LCC’s food sources. Thanks to the efforts of five graduating students from the Class of 2008, as well as our excellent chef Alain Thirion, we already have much of the data we need for this project. Make [...] Fortunately for all of us, despite Quebec’s so-so performance on large environmental issues, there are many excellent programs of a smaller nature that are making themselves felt around the province. One such example is the L’Interre Actif compostage display that came to LCC thanks to the efforts of faculty member Jean- François Maurice. As many people [...] It was an interesting experience to brainstorm with the Green Team on biodiversity –this year’s theme for Earth Week. Most of the websites that we researched revealed how important biodiversity is for humans since the many living beings on our earth allow us to obtain food, shelter, medicine, leisure, etc. What’s wrong with this picture? [...] |
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