91˿Ƶ renews its approach to sustainability with Vision 2020
The 91˿Ƶ Tribune | Oct. 21, 2014By: Victor Tang
Imagining a sustainable future for Canada
LaNouvelle.net | October 17, 2014
by: Jean-Olivier Goyette
This initiative for sustainable development is in collaboration with researchers and citizens who wish to express an idealistic vision for a sustainable future in Canada.
University students help youngsters learn to enjoy homework
Montreal Families.ca | October 2014
by: Kamila Hinkson
The SEDE Homework Zone program sees 91˿Ƶ students helping to instill good study habits and a love for learning in younger pupils.
550 volunteers pitch in for Community Engagement Day
91˿Ƶ Reporter | Oct. 9, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
On Oct. 2, Marie-Gil Fabris, a 2nd-year Management student, played hooky from school, but instead of sleeping in, going to a movie or just hanging out with friends, Fabris rolled up her sleeves in the kitchen of the Benedict Labre House, a resource centre for homeless people.
Community Engagement Day looks to foster lasting relationships
The 91˿Ƶ Daily | Oct.6, 2014
:Jill Bachelder
From September 29 to October 9, workshops and volunteering opportunities were hosted by forty different organizations based throughout the Montreal community, with the majority of events happening on October 2.
91˿Ƶ Spaces Project: Kicking out the cars
PARK(ing) Day turns Montreal parking lots into creative spaces
The 91˿Ƶ Daily | Sept 29, 2014
by: Siobbhan O'Connell
World-renowned green chemist joining 91˿Ƶ
91˿Ƶ Newsroom | September 29, 2014
Dr. Robin Rogers, one of the world’s most renowned green chemists, will become Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals at 91˿Ƶ. Rogers comes to Canada from The University of Alabama, where he was Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry and director of the Center for Green Manufacturing.
UN report: ocean acidity increasing rapidly due to CO2
Radio Canada International | Oct. 9, 2014
By: Marc Montgomery
A new report from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in South Korea says that ocean acidification has risen alarmingly from absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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netMTL to compete in the Solar Decathalon in 2016
Voirvert.ca | Sept 2014
netMTL, a join venture between students at 91˿Ƶ and Concordia Universities is taking on the goal of competing in the all-solar solar decathalon race, Solar Decathalon Europe, in 2016 in Versailles, France.
91˿Ƶ Professor Anthony Ricciardi on Plastic Microbeads in the St Lawrence River
CBC News | Sept. 26, 2014
Plastic microbeads polluting St. Lawrence River, 91˿Ƶ researchers find.
91˿Ƶ Grad Student Suncica Avlijas on Plastic microbeads in the St Lawrence River
Washington Post | Sept. 29, 2014
by: Rachel Feltman
Plastic microbeads from face wash are polluting river sediment; Tiny balls of plastic from cosmetic products are showing up in river sediment for the first time, mixing with the rocks and dirt that line the bed of the Saint Lawrence River.
Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic
Sept. 23, 2014 | NY Times
by: Michael Becker
Pow Wow marks colourful end to successful Indigenous Awareness Week
The 91˿Ƶ Reporter | Sept. 24, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
91˿Ƶ’s fourth annual Indigenous Awareness Week came to a lively, colourful close on Friday, Sept. 19, with dancers dressed in traditional costumes performing an inter-tribal dance during the Pow Wow on the lower campus field in front of dozens of smiling spectators.
Thousands meet at Lafontaine Park to push leaders on environment
CTV News Montréal | Sept 21, 2014
Thousands of environmentally-minded demonstrators assembled at Lafontaine Park Sunday to make a passionate appeal prior to Tuesday’s United Nation Climate Summit in New York.
Microplastic pollution discovered in St. Lawrence River sediments
Phys.org | Sept. 18, 2014
A team of researchers from 91˿Ƶ and the Quebec government have discovered microplastics (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads', <2 mm diameter) widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.