Projects

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 :

Objective : Reduce the ecological footprint of sports practices. Motorsports are polluting and have no place in a world where efforts are being made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Help needed : Communications, Mobilization End of project : 2030-01-01 Contact : fdiebol@yahoo.ca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

The “Data rescue : Archive and Weather” (DRAW) project at McGill University is currently looking for volunteers to help with its work. The goal of this project is to transcribe handwritten weather observation data into digital format. Between 1863 and 1963, these observations were recorded several times a day in registers at the former McGill

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

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

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.

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

Net Impact Montreal wishes to contribute to pressing social and environmental causes by bringing a new player into the ecosystem of Montreal. We aim at positioning Net Impact Montreal in a way that would truly enhance positive action in the city. For more information or to get involved, contact Kunal Garje.