When one thinks of college campuses, images that come to mind may include manicured lawns, park benches and perhaps an institutional shrub garden and flagpole near a main entrance.
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Dawson鈥檚 Sustainability Advisory Committee is developing a Landscape Master Plan and wants to hear from the Dawson community. With the community鈥檚 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:
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.
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鈥檚 Living Campus projects, including the gardens, the beehives, the Monarch Butterflies and more.
A dozen projects proposed by Dawson students, faculty and staff have been approved for funding through the Dawson Foundation鈥檚 new Student Academic Enrichment Fund.
A website page showcases the projects and allows others to invest in a particular project through a donate button.
The Student Academic Enrichment Fund is supported by students each semester and is meant to be a source of funds for projects that demonstrate a clear benefit for Dawson students and represent an activity that goes over and above core competencies for completion of a program. The selection committee, including representatives from the Dawson Student Union, Academics and Student Services, meets twice a year to review and approve project proposals.
The next round of project applications will open later this semester and will be announced in D News and the Omnivox student news feed.
鈥淗appiness that contributes to individual, community or global well-being and does not exploit other people, the environment, or future generations.鈥澛� -Dr. Catherine O鈥橞rien 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…
For years, the Alexis-Nihon shopping centre across the street has been like a second home to the Dawson community 鈥� 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…
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鈥檚 mushroom inventory is part of a larger biodiversity project on campus that will be announced in the new year.
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鈥� Office….
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…
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 Jennifer De Vera for more info: jdevera@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Last Modified: March 8, 2023
