District 3. Future Earth. Sustainable investment.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 18, 2015
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Branchez-Vous writes that Concordia's business incubator, District 3, helped start up the personalized gift business Spoil, founded by a group of former Concordia students (Cristian Asenjo, Charles-Éric Gascon, Mikhail Levkovsky and James Traf).
- Academica reprises an earlier release announcing that the recently-created Future Earth research secretariat into global sustainability will be based in Montreal and that its first Executive Director is Paul Shrivastava, management professor and director of the JMSB's David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise.
- Concordia's sustainable investment fund is mentioned in a Canadian Press article about faculty at the University of British Columbia calling on UBC to divest from fossil fuel investments.