Do not miss Richard Dugas at Earth Week on April 27 at 12 p.m. for a . You will learn about bike inspection, cleaning, lubrication and inflating tires.
That afternoon Richard will also be on campus (outside the Security entrance) between 3 -4 p.m. for a He will be offering spring riding tips and personalized troubleshooting. RSVP to bring your bike.
Come say hi and join the bike gang!
Bixi is offering 10% off to all Dawson students and employees who sign up for monthly or seasonal memberships before May 31. A season is only $89 for members of the Dawson community.
If you are not sure about signing up, Dawson will give you a free month of Bixi membership.
To get the promotional code for your 10% off Bixi or to receive a free month of Bixi courtesy of Dawson, contact Richard Dugas at rdugas@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
This year, we have added an s to Earth Weeks and scheduled two weeks of events.
Here are some highlights:
Sustainability 张百乔女友裸照 Open House Wednesday, April 21 at 10 a.m.
Come meet representatives from colleges and universities that offer Sustainability degrees and/or certificates, including Dawson鈥檚 Environmental & Sustainability Certificate.
Beehive Opening Wednesday, April 21 at聽12 p.m.
Take a peek inside Dawson鈥檚 4H rooftop hive 鈥� and聽 experience honey bees remotely!
Zoom link:
Keynote Speaker Dr. Ingrid Waldron Thursday, April 22 at 1 p.m.
Author of There鈥檚 Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary, Dr. Waldron recently co-founded the Anti-Environmental Racism Coalition. Organizations in the environmental and climate change sector are collaborating on projects and sharing expertise and resources to address environmental racism in Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities across Canada.
For more info, click Read More to go to the full schedule. To get zoom links and reserve your class, contact sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Students and staff are invited to attend a virtual inter-collegial talk entitled 鈥樷�� Engaging with the SDGs in Higher Education with Prof. Charles Hopkins鈥欌�� on April 20 from 5:30-6:45pm. Charles Hopkins鈥� presentation will be about how we can incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our college communities, from a student and staff perspective. According…
Dawson's Earth Week is fast approaching. We are reaching out to any staff, faculty or student who would like to contribute a piece of art: canvas painting, digital painting prints, photographs, sculptures, etc. to this year's Earth Week fundraiser. The theme for the pieces is anything nature, animals, sustainability, Earth. They will all be put up for sale online between April 19 and April 30. Your name and/or social media accounts will be mentioned, and all the money raised will help fund Dawson's beautiful Peace Garden.
No pieces will be turned away. Thank you in advance for caring for our garden!
Please contact campuslife@dawsoncollege.qc.ca if you would like to be part of this wonderful cause.
Happy Spring Dawson! This year Spring conditions actually arrived on the official calendar date of the Spring Equinox and it was glorious! Take a walk, snap some photos of Spring's arrival in your neighbourhood and send your best photos to cparsons@dawsoncollege.qc.ca . We will share them in the next D News. This photo was taken the morning of March 23 and shows a budding tree by the river in Verdun.
The North-South Studies Profile students are currently on a virtual field trip to Cuba.
Click Read More to go to the homepage news story and learn about the experience, what the students think about it and how you can support them.
The Sustainable Happiness course was featured in a French article in the March 8 e-newsletter Infolettre R茅seau Coll茅gial. Chris Adam (Sustainability) and Selma Hamdani (Faculty, Psychology) were interviewed.
Click Read More to go to the story.
Events are being planned all over Quebec, Canada and the world on March 19, an international day for climate action.
Dawson's Green Earth Club wanted to let the Dawson community know that there's a protest being planned in Montreal by local climate and social justice groups:
to invite the Dawson community to get involved.
Here is the schedule for the last week of Wellness Weeks: 1249 WEEK 4 2 Please also see ingredient list for Cook-along with Kaye Francis Cooking with KAYE on Wednesday, March 10 @12-1pm Click here to join!聽 and Material list to paint along with Melanie Matthews MelanieARTMaterials on Thursday, March 11 @ 12-1pm Click here…
Last Modified: April 7, 2021
