Zero Waste Week 2021

Concordia’s Zero Waste Week is a free event series dedicated to rethinking and innovating the way we approach waste. Visit the web page for the most updated listings.

Monday, April 19
2 to 3:30 p.m.

LaTeX and the Sustainability of Free Software

Learn some of the basic uses of the LaTeX document preparation system and how the Free Software movement enables the development, sustainability, and accessibility of much of the software we rely on.

Register. Invite friends on Facebook.

Tuesday April 20
1 to 2:30 p.m.

Mending and Making online session

Join CUCCR for these informal sessions where we will work together to repair, remake, and extend the lifespan of our items. Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don’t know how to fix them. This throwaway lifestyle depletes Earth’s resources and adds to overflowing landfills.

One area we can all work on is to repair our wardrobe. Clothing and textiles make up a large portion of our landfill waste and fibers are rarely recycled. Regardless of weather you are purchasing clothing made from ethical materials or fast fashion, we should do our very best to keep wearing and using our textiles for as long as possible. “Tend to your wardrobe as if it was a garden” is a beautiful principle discussed in the lovely book titled ‘Mending Life: A Handbook for repairing clothes and hearts’. All projects and skill levels are welcome.

Register. Invite friends on Facebook.

Wednesday April 21
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Getting to Zero Waste at Concordia
Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Compost, Recycle: A panel discussion

The third event of this series focuses on the Zero Waste Plan, which aims to reduce Concordia’s waste by 50% and divert 90% of materials from the landfill. The plan’s strategies focus heavily on reducing and reusing waste, and finding innovative solutions to long-standing challenges, including how to shift campus culture from single use to reuse.

Join our panelists in discussion about the plan, its major challenges and how you can get involved.

Register.

Wednesday, April 21
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Sustainability Mixer

It’s Sustainability Mixer time! The Sustainability Mixer is an opportunity to get to know the sustainability related organizations working at Concordia, meet other students, and just hang out in a space together. Groups directly active in the Sustainable community at Concordia will be present to chat about their work and open space for students to learn more, network, and talk about all the different sustainable goings-on at Concordia.

This mixer has been taking place for over five years now, with last year being the first year we were forced to cancel it due to COVID. Now, a year later, we’re super excited to organize this year’s Sustainability Mixer, and once again try to create a space for students to gain an understanding of the community and know how to get informed & involved.

So yes! Join us for an evening full of lively discussion, music, prizes, and an opening musical performance.

Register. Invite friends on Facebook.

Thursday, April 22 (EARTH DAY)
10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Concordia Clean-up

Concordia Clean-up launch! Join Concordians across the globe in a community clean up. Sign up now for the May 8 event. Join an existing Concordia team, start your own team in your neighborhood or clean up as an individual wherever you are. Local teams will be able to pick up clean up supplies in advance. For more information stay connected to @ZeroWasteConcordia on Facebook.

Friday, April 23
10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Moulding Plastics and the Art of Functional Ceramics with CP3

Hosted by: Felix Beaudry

Complex problems require innovative solutions and interdisciplinary teams of creative people. In this webinar CP3 partnered up with Trad & Design to create a process that utilizes traditional fabrication methods and materials combined with new processes like 3D printing to shape recycled plastic into meaningful objects. Come to learn how fine arts students can help transform the way we use plastics on campus. This project demonstrates that traditional art and craft practices like ceramics production can be used to tackle contemporary problems like the production of valuable recycled plastic objects. In the process both the ceramic object and the plastic object acquire new meaning and value through their interaction.

Join via Zoom at the time of the event.