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8 May 2013
In April, the Green Building Council of Canada awarded Montreal's Centre for Sustainable Development (better known by its official name, Maison du développement durable) a LEED® Platinum NC rating. The Maison, which is home to Equiterre's headquarters, is the first new...
8 May 2013
It has been almost a year since Etienne Théroux began his bike trip of a lifetime, CycloExpedition Americas: 27,000 km across the Americas, to raise awareness about food sovereignty and ecological agriculture.
After eight countries and 15,000 km – following what he calls...
6 February 2013
By popular demand, our Guide to Sustainable Promotional Products is now available in English. Use this free e-guide to help your organization develop a promotional product strategy that is compatible with its sustainability goals.
It briefly explains the environmental and social...
5 February 2013
Authenticity in every basket, that's how idée BIO! magazine describes the work of family farmer François Tanguay, co-owner of Les Jardins du petit tremble in the Montérégie.
Find out how this product of a suburban childhood became a proponent of organic agriculture. According to...
5 February 2013
Julie Guicheteau won the 2008 Laure Waridel bursary for her master's project on success factors affecting sustainable mobility. Now she has turned her project into a book, Projets efficaces pour une mobilité durable, co-authored with her research director, Louise Millette.
This...
21 January 2013
Support Éric St-Pierre, photojournalist and founder of the Association québécoise du commerce équitable, in his nomination as francophone fair trade personality of the year for 2012.
To vote for Éric, go to the Ekitinfo website (in French only). But hurry, you only have until...
31 October 2012
The pupils at Saint Barthélemy primary school in Montreal grow their own organic veggies.
McGill University serves fruit and vegetables grown on its Macdonald campus.
Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ontario "cooks patient meals from scratch using fresh,...
17 October 2012
Quebec fair trade association, the Association québécoise du commerce équitable (AQCE), has declared a fair trade focus for each month of the coming year:
October – cocoa and sugar for Halloween
November – tea
December – wine and spirits for the...
