Though you may be discouraged by that snow on the ground today, take heart: The Dawson Rooftop Gardens Project and Urban Seedling are here to help you usher in spring in style with a workshop and fundraiser for the gardens. Interested in growing your own food but don’t know how? Worried that you might not…
Spring is (finally) in the air! For us at the Rooftop Gardens Project, that means planning and planting the gardens. This year, we are doing early spring planting and we need your help! Join us for our first official Dig-In at the Rooftop Gardens on April 22, 2014. Come and join one of our site…
This is a reminder that applications for the Urban Sustainability Internship are due TODAY, April 4, 2014. Check out our internship site for details on how to apply. Good luck!
We would like you to meet Vincent Giampalma, a Dawson College graduate and former Environmental Studies profile student, as a 2014 Senior Intern. Welcome, Vince! From his bio: Living, thinking and creating; I perceive as a method of building on the greater practices and wisdoms conceptualized by the some of the great minds that came…
Internship Applications Due on April 4, 2014! Dawson students!! Download the application materials for the 2014 internship. Remember to submit to or office 5D.5 by April 4, 2014.
The rooftop gardens project at Dawson is hosting three Senior Interns in 2014. Meet Yette, a student at Concordia University who will receive credit for the internship through the sustainability studies minor. From her bio: “I am a Concordia Student from Vancouver, BC, studying Urban Planning with a minor in Sustainability. I am very…
Article: On the Future of Bees On colony collapse disorder (CCD) in the bee population (umm…..nothing short of essential to the world’s food supply). Are we surprised that fungicides and pesticides are part of the answer? From the article: “…In recent years, a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids has been linked to bee deaths and…
Meet one of our urban sustainability interns, Roxanne Bennett! Roxanne is working on develop critical information on the biodiversity of the gardens at Dawson College. As part of the rooftop gardens project, she is developing educational materials on the types and uses of containers commonly used in urban agriculture and currently in use on the…
Students in Environmental Studies embracing and expanding the rooftop gardens. The garden is growing the summer!
Reminder students! Tomorrow is the deadline for the Urban Sustainability Internship with the Rooftop Gardens Project at Dawson. See the details at: http://www-elisabeth.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/rooftop-gardens/how-to-get-involved/volunteer/ Good luck!
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