This project aims to present alternative products to commonly used products that would have a lower carbon footprint. Through the platform, people will be able to go around the house to discover low-carbon footprint consumer products. Help needed : Research End of project : 2030-01-01 Contact: Éric Ferland More information
Emission reduction now aims, through the Climate COOK application, to enable hundreds of thousands of people to improve the climate impact of their food. Climate COOK aims to help people transition to a low-carbon diet. See a presentation of the application. We are looking for people to test the alpha version of the application :
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The Science Advocates/Défenseurs des Sciences – Canada team is looking for help to create its website. The website would mainly serve to share the important information that is on the Facebeook page as well as relevant scientific articles they talk about on their Facebook page. Help needed : Communications / Web End date : 2030-01-01
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The 2020 National Climate League Standings (NCL) is finally here! Find out about how your city ranks nationally on 30 sustainability indicators such as air quality, public transport or affordable housing and discover what are your options at the municipal level so you can improve your community’s quality of life. Learn more about the initiative
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Organizations: Net Impact Montreal We aim to meet the challenges of waste diversion in Montreal to reach its net zero target by 2030 The program was inspired by the city’s massive undertaking to go zero waste by 2030 and aimes to incorporate strategies that along with the UN SDGs.The program aims to meet the city’s
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Organisations impliquées : Sensorica, Plenty4All and the Open Climate Collabathon. A cross sectional analysis of Carbon Cycle Science and the research landscape of natural negative emissions technology and it’s potential in solving our Climatic Conundrum Employing Carbon Cycle Science to advance Regenerative Agriculture with the participation of Plenty4All, in Ndhiwa Kenya. Validate Carbon Sequestration using
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The Royal Vic for the Public Coalition is a Montreal-wide coalition that advocates for the Royal Victoria former hospital to remain devoted to the common good. We believe this site must remain in the public domain, be managed democratically and ecologically, and be used to serve the urgent needs of the population. We oppose any
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À nous le Plateau! is an assembly, set in the open space form, where participants determine the agenda. Its goal is to develop participative and direct democracy within the Plateau Mont-Royal. Do you have opinions and ideas about the Plateau, how it is changing, and what this means for the future of those who live
Goal: reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and reduce consumption at the source. Garbage Night is an application to geolocate waste in real time. It allows Montrealers to store for and pick up their neighbourhood’s garbage, thereby reducing the amount of waste going to landfills. This approach encourages reuse and recycling, reduces the
In theory, the City of Montreal has accepted our ideas to curb the tons of garbage generated by weekly flyers, so now we only need to get the councillors to act The waste due to weekly bags of flyers is the equivalent of abandoning 62 buses in the streets of Montreal, EVERY WEEK. In spite
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Finding volunteers to help us organize environmental fairs With the help of four cities, we organize environmental fairs. Our partners are the Fonds FTQ, Recyc-Québec and the Quebec government. The main goal is to find ways to reduce our ecological footprint in order to reduce our GHGs. Help needed : communication, outreach, data, strategy. Contact
The Cyclistes solidaires initiative was born out of a spontaneous citizen mobilization to ensure food security for people considered vulnerable in Montreal’s central neighbourhoods. Indeed, when the state of emergency was declared by the Mayor of Montreal on March 27, 2020, people mobilized to help other people living in their neighborhood who were forced to
Working with various civil society groups to propose to the City how we want to be involved in the development and implementation of the ecological transition plan. Contact
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We are citizens working to educate the public about leaf blowers, and the benefits of leaving fall leaves in our gardens and parks. We hope to get a bylaw by summer/fall 2021 banning the use of gas leaf blowers at all times in the borough of Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-dame-de-grace. Banning leaf blowers would give us quieter neighbourhoods,
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The Coalition Climat Montréal will hold its 5th anniversary on Thursday, February 20 at the Lajeunesse centre (7378 Lajeunesse, Jean-Talon metro station) with a program highlighting the inspiring work of various organizations. We are expecting 150-200 people to celebrate the past and align ourselves with the future. Lectures and workshops will take place from noon
ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition, a program that is run simultaneously across the globe in over 50 countries. We are excited to bring the program to Canada for the first time in North America! This year, we are focusing on sustainable mobility solutions, however other ideas related to cleantech are also
The Coalition will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, June 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at HEC Montréal, at Salon des diplômés Deloitte – 4th floor, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine. The AGM will be preceded at 3pm by the presentation of our thematic sheets, describing our four pillars of action. Please note that
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Educating the public about the need for the sustainable development on the future site of Lachine East as a model Eco-district Working with local partners (including municipal leaders) to make the responsible and ecological development of Lachine East a priority for the City of Montreal. Obtaining a public consultation with the OCPM. Providing educational opportunities
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This project aims to create an exchangeable Complementary Local Currency (CLM) in the Greater Montreal area. To do this, we are looking to: Recruit 270 individuals (currency users) to complete the current pilot phase Recruit professionals and traders (who accept currency as payment) for the current pilot phase Organize an event for the official launch
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My 2nd wish – a donation for the climate aims to create recycled greeting cards. The project consists of creating recycled greeting cards to collect donations for the climate. The proceeds from the sale of these cards will go to the Coalition Climat Montréal. “My 2nd Wish” wishes to collect donations for its used greeting
This site report country-specific CO2 emission totals of fossil fuel use and industrial processes (cement production, carbonate use of limestone and dolomite, non-energy use of fuels and other combustion, chemical and metal processes, solvents, agricultural liming and urea, waste and fossil fuel fires). Excluded are: short-cycle biomass burning (such as agricultural waste burning), large-scale biomass
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This page contains a complete set of solar energy maps (also called solar insolation maps, solar photovoltaic maps, and solar irradiance maps), along with the estimated monthly solar production for every province and territory in Canada.
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The eco-neighbourhood of today, the city of tomorrow Are you concerned about the future of your city? Just like climate change? France has been running its national “Ecoquartier” programme for a decade now, designed to bring together civil society, developers and municipalities so that new developments contribute to the energy transition while promoting social equity.
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Montréal, ville végé is a project of the Association Végétarienne de Montréal (AVM) that seeks to convince the city to officially position itself in favour of vegetarianism, veganism and veganism. The AVM is currently looking for volunteers to support this project. If you are interested, you are invited to send an email to benevolat@vegemontreal.org.
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On Saturday, February 23rd, the Montreal Climate Coalition celebrated its 4th anniversary. More than 75 people gathered to attend presentations on the activities of the Coalition and various Montreal groups involved in climate action. In opening, Pierre Lessard-Blais, Mayor of the Borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, and Alexandre Boulerice, Member of Parliament for Rosemont-Petite Patrie, stressed the
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In Montréal, it is easy to be green ! In 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change, a group mandated by the UN to provide governments with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies, issued a report stating that we cannot continue to ignore the effect that human activity is having on
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Open Letter to CBC News (n.b. the journalist’s response is also published at the end) Good Evening M. Nakonechny, It was my pleasure to meet you last week outside the Québec court of appeal. In the interest of improving CBC’s reporting of issues relating to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, find below several comments on
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Join the Coalition’s data team to measure what matters. Fifteen primary and fifteen secondary indicators will be collected to track our city’s progress from year to year, in addition to letting us compare ourselves to other Canadian cities in friendly competition. Join the game! For more information, contact Matthew Chapman.
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An open letter from Matthew Chapman, president of Coalition Climat Montréal to Yvan Cardinal, Pincourt’s mayor Dear Mayor Cardinal, Many residents of the Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal recognize the value of our few remaining green spaces. They serve as natural infrastructure to filter water, cool neighbourhoods, mitigate flooding and are host to many species of
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Urba Nature has for mission : To facilitate, promote, and support place-based outdoor learning for all, especially children and youth; To create opportunities for Nature connection in urban settings and illustrate the value of the Natural world; To improve the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages, especially society’s vulnerable sectors, through contact