News - Projects
7 November 2011
Equiterre is pleased to learn that public transit in Montreal has reached a historic level of popularity. With close to 296 million trips in the first nine months of the year, the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) can confirm a 4% increase in ridership compared with...
31 October 2011
By Steven Guilbeault, cofounder and deputy executive director of Equiterre
For several weeks now, the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC), which includes the island of Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and the North Shore, has been holding consultations on its first ever proposal for...
26 October 2011
If you live in Quebec, chances are that you have been asked to sign a petition in recent history. There have been a few major ones circulating, including the petition for a public consultation on urban agriculture in Montreal, the petition for the labeling of GM...
25 October 2011
The hearings on Quebec's green paper for an agri-food policy that were supposed to take place this fall have been postponed once again.
They have been rescheduled for January 2012, which means that there is no chance of any legislation being drafted before the spring.
This is...
25 October 2011
To mark the 15th anniversary of our family farmer program, we have published a book, L'agriculture soutenue par la communauté (Community supported agriculture). Readers will learn about the different aspects of CSA, including:
how our farms are founded
shareholder...
24 October 2011
Equiterre helped the Yellow Pages Group update its EcoGuide. The new version, which is more user friendly, contains information on:
what is recyclable in your area
how to responsibly dispose of such toxic household waste as dead batteries or old cans of paint...
18 October 2011
Quebec-based entomologist Madeleine Chagnon, together with her UQAM colleagues, has shown that bees are adversely affected by the chemicals used in seed coating, particularly neonicotinoid insecticides.
While this result has been demonstrated elsewhere in the world in laboratory...
5 October 2011
Did you know that our new home, the Centre for Sustainable Development, is more than just a demonstration green building?
It also has a social mission!
That's why you'll find cabinets in our kitchen made by Boulet vers, a social insertion organization that teaches woodworking...
