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For the 5th year in a row, our members have joined forces with the Caisse d’économie solidaire to encourage the next generation of environmental leaders. This year's winner, Marcus Lobb, an undergraduate student in Geography and the Human Environment at Concordia, impressed the selection committee with his Concordia City Farm School project, which adheres to the social...
A new initiative to inspire public debate in Quebec was launched last night in Montreal. Sortie 13 brings together 13 Gen X and Y leaders, each of whom specializes in a different societal issue, ranging from transportation to entrepreneurship to immigration. Equiterre's Steven Guilbeault is the group's resident environmentalist.
Are you a student in a BA or MA program? Or a recent graduate working to disseminate your research?  Apply for the Laure Waridel bursary, offered for the fourth year in a row by Equiterre and Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins.
Are you a student in a BA or MA program? Or a recent graduate working to disseminate your research?  Apply for the Laure Waridel bursary, offered for the fourth year in a row by Equiterre and Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins.
Marie-Eve Arbour, a young woman with an impressive commitment to social and environmental causes, is the proud recipient of the 2010 Laure Waridel bursary, which comes with a prize of $9000. The UQAM communications grad won for her research and awareness-raising project, V.I.S.A.G.E.S., which looks at organic agriculture, eco-friendly homes and citizen action in Quebec's...
Congratulations to Julie Guicheteau! Julie Guicheteau is an MA student in civil engineering with an environmental concentration at Montreal's École Polytechnique. Julie's project looks at success factors for clean transportation initiatives. 
Vincent Galarneau, an MA student in anthropology at Université Laval, won the Laure Waridel bursary for his project: a guide to eco-solidarity practices on farms. The project looks at the direct and indirect benefits of an approach to agriculture that is based on human and environmental solidarity – as seen today on Quebec's organic and biodynamic farms....
Deadline to apply: December 1, 2012, at midnight. The Laure Waridel bursary recognizes student research on environmental and social action.  To qualify, you must be: enrolled in either a BA, MA or a post-graduate certificate program at a Quebec university or have graduated in 2012 and be working currently on disseminating your research Required documents:
Marie-Eve Arbour, a graduate of UQAM's communications program, won the 2010 Laure Waridel bursary for VISAGES régionaux du Québec*, a research and awareness-raising project on organic agriculture, eco-friendly homes and citizen action. 
We joined forces with other Canadian environmental groups to survey the political parties on their environmental priorities for Election 2011.  The Conservatives were the only party to ignore our request. Today we revealed the results of the survey, which included questions on:
Actualité - 18 April 2011 - Tag : Advocacy, Environmental and social issues
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