From the Loyola Campus café to the downtown core, from corporate boardrooms and community gardens to the global water supply, students, researchers and community volunteers are integrating a vision of a more sustainable future.
Students working with design professor Martin Racine apply sustainability principles to developing furniture for Montreal's standard-setting Maison du développement durable.
A new student-run coffee shop at Loyola promises to inject social conscience and hot java into Concordia's quieter campus. Created by design students, the Hive Café's bold shapes, raw wood and repurposed materials will be good for the environment.
As a major employer and presence in the west end of Montreal's downtown core, Concordia offers a series of proposals intended to improve the quality of neighbourhood life sustainably.
Beginning this fall, the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise will offer the Sustainable Investment Professional Certification, an innovative training course in green investment for business professionals.
A complex set of factors make our water-delivery systems wasteful and environmentally detrimental. Professor Ketra Schmitt hopes to understand enough of these factors to change our water systems for the better.
