/sustainability/taxonomy/term/774/all en /sustainability/sp0288-green-labs-certification <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>ONGOING </strong>December 2021 - </p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p>Piloting a third party green lab certification to develop capacity and resources for a ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ specific program.</p></div></div> Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:47:57 +0000 kelsey.litwin@mcgill.ca 3008 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0275-action-x-design <hr /> <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>In Progress </strong> May 2021 -  </p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p> </p> <p>Establishing long-term pathways for the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ community (students, staff, faculty) to lead dynamic equity based learning experiences with youth in local marginalized communities.</p></div></div> Tue, 11 May 2021 19:00:30 +0000 kelsey.litwin@mcgill.ca 2961 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0242-helium-recovery-project <hr /> <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>Complete </strong>April 2020 - May 2021 </p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p> </p> <p>We propose to purchase and install a system for recovering and recycling the limited resource<br /> helium, a critical component for the important scientific technique of NMR (nuclear magnetic<br /> resonance).</p></div></div> Thu, 21 May 2020 11:16:15 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2882 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0241-fmas-sustainability-push <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>ONGOING </strong>February 2020 - </p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p> </p> <p>The project aims at unlocking significant capital investments to make visible improvements to the environmental performance of our campus facilities, while involving students in the process.</p></div></div> Thu, 21 May 2020 11:14:59 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2881 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0240-mcgill-wide-green-labs-initiative <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>ONGOING </strong>February 2020 - </p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p> </p></div></div> Thu, 21 May 2020 11:14:08 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2880 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0236-climate-change-artist-residence <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>April 2020 - March 2022</p> <div> <div class="two-column-1"> <p> </p> <p>Use new media art as a creative catalyst to engage our community & enhance the visibility of climate research at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ through collaboration with climate researchers and hosting of public workshops.</p></div></div> Thu, 21 May 2020 11:11:21 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2878 at /sustainability /sustainability/season-extension-technology-meet-need-local-food-sp0249 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETE </strong>April 2020 - February 2022</p> <div> <p>Installing a field high tunnel and a greenhouse to extend the production season of pesticide-free crops for the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ feeding ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ project</p></div> Fri, 15 May 2020 20:33:07 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2877 at /sustainability /sustainability/dairy-cow-pasture-project-phase-2-sp0248 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETE </strong>March 2020 - January 2021</p> <div> <p>The objective is to follow up on the Dairy Cow Pasture project by planting new wind breaks and implementing a simple irrigation system to increase productivity of drought prone pastures.</p></div> Fri, 15 May 2020 20:02:24 +0000 keelin.elwood@mcgill.ca 2876 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0224 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETE</strong> July 2019 - October 2019</p> <div> <p>The ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Farmers' Market New Equipment Project is to furnish the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Farmers’ Market with the necessary equipment to ensure its continued success in years to come by reducing the precarity caused by shifting University policies. </p></div> Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:45:15 +0000 kelsey.litwin@mcgill.ca 2855 at /sustainability /sustainability/green-labs-initiative-neuro-sp0208 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status:<b> COMPLETE </b>December 2018 - January 2021</p> <p>The Green Labs Initiative project aims to address the environmental and financial waste of scientific labs at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) by implementing lab material recycling programs, creating online resources, and organizing events to change the culture within the MNI. </p> Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:02:35 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2806 at /sustainability /sustainability/explore-careers-health-sp0196 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETE </strong>June 2018 - July 2019</p> <div> <p>The Explore! Careers in Health project aims to empower underprivileged youth to consider careers in the health sciences. Over a three day period, from July 2-4, 2019, high school students from underprivileged backgrounds and rural areas of Quebec were invited to stay in a ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ residence free-of-charge, to participate in various sport, recreational and cultural activities, and to make new friendships.</p></div> Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:21:48 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2797 at /sustainability /sustainability/sustainable-athletics-intern-sp0195 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED</strong><strong> </strong>June 2018 - October 2019</p> <div> <p>The Sustainable Athletics Intern project seeks to implement the recently-drafted <a href="/sustainability/files/sustainability/athletics_action_plan.pdf" target="_blank">Athletics & Recreation Climate and Sustainability Action Plan</a> through the hiring of an employee responsible for integrating sustainability into the day-to-day operations of the unit. </p></div> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:31:00 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2795 at /sustainability /sustainability/biomedical-waste-sterilization-sp0194 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>ONGOING </strong>June 2018 - </p> <div> <p>The Biomedical Waste Sterilization project aims to reduce GHG emissions by replacing the weekly trucking of non-anatomical biomedical waste for disposal from Montreal to Brampton (ON) with a local sterilizing shredder (autoclave) for on-campus use by Hazardous Waste Management (HWM).</p></div> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:52:56 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2782 at /sustainability /sustainability/roots-coalition-sp0192 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>April 2018 - November 2018</p> Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:27:09 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2778 at /sustainability /sustainability/faraday-farms-sp0191 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>April 2018 - November 2018</p> <div> <p>This project aims to establish an extensive vegetable garden by and for ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ's chemistry department. The garden will consist of multiple fabric containers of various sizes, places in a few locations around the Otto Maass, Pulp and Paper buildings. A composting system will also be implemented to provide free soil for the continuity of this project in future years.</p></div> Mon, 01 Oct 2018 21:30:09 +0000 timothy.ellis@mail.mcgill.ca 2774 at /sustainability