Contribute to Dawson’s new landscape plan
February 8th, 2023
Dawson’s Sustainability Advisory Committee is developing a Landscape Master Plan and wants to hear from the Dawson community. With the community’s input and ideas, committee members are dreaming about and reviewing how we use the college building envelope and grounds.
All Dawson employees are invited to give feedback by contacting the Sustainability Office or attending a drop-in info session:
- Thursday, February 9, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. in the Co-Lab 3F.43
This is your chance to make your suggestions about the use and design of our campus for leisure, organized recreation, learning, increasing biodiversity, promoting health and well-being for all.
Written feedback or sketches can be sent to Sophie La Font in the Sustainability Office (4B.3A). Faculty members are welcome to involve their classes in this process, please contact Sophie La Font if interested.
Holiday gift-wrapping yields $9,900 for our Living Campus
January 25th, 2023
The Dawson Foundation and the Sustainability Office would like to thank the 33 volunteers who gave their time in December and all those who donated at the Dawson gift-wrapping station in Alexis-Nihon Mall.
Over 21 days of holiday gift-wrapping, a total of $9,900 was raised. These funds will be used by the Sustainability Office for learning activities and projects that contribute to well-being for all on our Living Campus. While getting their gifts wrapped, visitors and donors learned about Dawson’s Living Campus projects, including the gardens, the beehives, the Monarch Butterflies and more.
Minister of Families, Children and Social Development on SH
January 25th, 2023
On Jan. 16, Karina Gould, Canada’s Federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, visited Dawson to learn more about our Sustainable Happiness Course.
This is what she tweeted about it after her visit:
“A #sustainable future includes having a healthy, happy and sustainable lifestyle. Through the Sustainable Happiness Certificate, students at @college_dawson develop strategies to integrate positive psychology, well-being and happiness in our everyday lives.”
November 30th, 2022
“Happiness that contributes to individual, community or global well-being and does not exploit other people, the environment, or future generations.” -Dr. Catherine O’Brien Dawson students, support staff and external groups have participated in the peer-to-peer Sustainable Happiness educational experience since Winter 2020. The weekly sessions are developed with a goal of reconnecting people, community, and…
November 30th, 2022
For years, the Alexis-Nihon shopping centre across the street has been like a second home to the Dawson community – from dashing over (through the tunnel in bad weather) for lunch to getting groceries or doing a little shopping. Dawson will see an extension of its relationship with Alexis-Nihon once again this holiday season when…
New stock of mini desktop garbages have arrived
November 16th, 2022
If you would like one for your desk please stop by the Sustainability Office 4B.3A and pick one up. First come first served.
A friendly reminder of why we have mini desk top garbages that we bring to the sorting station ourselves:
- We hope to reduce waste and make everyone more accountable and mindful of the waste they produce and where it goes.
- By bringing your own waste to the sorting stations we hope you run into different people from the Dawson community and start a conversation and spark connections, bringing community together. It’s the new water cooler.
Students identified 19 mushrooms on campus
October 19th, 2022
Foragers and those who enjoy gourmet food know that it is mushroom season in Quebec.
Dawson students are also hunting for mushrooms as part of a project to identify as many kinds of life on campus as possible.
The Sustainability Office created a new nurse tree garden, a biodiversity zone in the P1 parking lot area. They used tree trunks and branches from the property to create this habitat and also injected spores into some large stumps around the campus.
The Sustainabili-Team volunteers have now identified 19 species of mushroom, including chicken of the woods (pictured).
Dawson’s mushroom inventory is part of a larger biodiversity project on campus that will be announced in the new year.
Honey extraction workshop Oct. 14
October 5th, 2022
Time to reap the fruit of our labour with this very hands-on honey extraction workshop. A beekeeper will assist you over the course of this fun-filled hour as you uncap honeycomb cells, hand-spin honeycombs in the centrifugal extractor, and filter the raw honey before jarring and labelling it all! This event takes places on Oct. 14 at 12 p.m. Contact the Sustainability office sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca for
more info and to RSVP your spot. Spaces are limited!
September 21st, 2022
Parents of first-year students were invited to an information session online on Sept. 7 and were offered an opportunity to tour the College and learn about our Living Campus on Sept. 15. The info session included presentations by Environmental Science student Narcisse X, Biology teacher Brian Mader and Yanina Chukhovich of the First-Year Students’ Office….
September 21st, 2022
We would like to thank all those who were involved in taking care of their Monarch Butterfly chrysalises until they e-closed (transformed to a butterfly) in late August and early September. It is always so heartwarming to see the community meet outside in the Peace Garden every day at noon during that week to tag…
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