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McGill's Downtown Campus in Autumn
- McGill University (QC)
An aerial view of McGill University's downtown campus in October. Prominently featured are the McCall MacBain Arts Building, the Redpath Museum. The downtown campus is nestled against Mont Royal, Montreal's …
- Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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The McGill Community Consults on the Next Climate & Sustainability Strategy
- McGill University (QC)
In Feb. 2024, the McGill Office of Sustainability brought together various faculty, staff, and students from the McGill community to discuss their vision for the the Climate & Sustainability Strategy …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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McGill Celebrates its STARS Platinum Rating
- McGill University (QC)
The McCall MacBain Arts building lit in green in order to celebrate McGill University's achievement of a Platinum STARS rating in March 2024. Thanks to the efforts of the McGill …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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McGill University Biodiversity Festival 2023
- McGill University (QC)
McGill’s first Biodiversity Plan was launched in Sept. 2023, with a celebrations held on the downtown and Macdonald campuses, as well as the Gault Nature Reserve. The Biodiversity Festival featured …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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Bike racks in front of Macdonald Engineering Building
- McGill University (QC)
Bike racks set up outside the Macdonald Engineering Building at McGill University on a sunny summer day.
McGill's Ride & Refresh program makes it easier for McGill students, full-time staff …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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Hiawatha Wampum Belt Flag over the McCall-MacBain Arts Building
- McGill University (QC)
Hiawatha Wampum Belt flag is raised over the McCall-MacBain Arts Building on McGill's downtown campus. The flag is centuries-old symbol that marks unity and peace between the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, …
- Posted July 22, 2024
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Leveling Up Sustainability Funds for Strategic Goals and Bigger Impact
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- McGill University (QC)
In today's rapidly changing world, sustainability initiatives have become paramount for higher education institutions. As universities embrace their responsibility to lead by example, the management of campus sustainability funds has …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainable Lab Community Engagement Campaign
- McGill University (QC)
McGill University is working toward two ambitious sustainability targets: to become zero-waste by 2035 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. As one of the top research universities in Canada …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Building Carbon Offset Projects: Two Case Studies from Quebec Universities
- McGill University (QC)
- Université de Sherbrooke (QC)
As universities around the world set and tackle institutional carbon neutrality targets in response to climate change, debates are ongoing about the importance of and approaches to carbon offsetting to …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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How to Create a Sustainable Virtual Event Certification Program
- Concordia University (IL)
- McGill University (QC)
- University of Manitoba (MB)
In the context of increasingly affordable (but not universal) access to digital equipment and technologies, virtual events have become more prevalent. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual events …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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McGill Sustainable Labs Guide
- McGill University (QC)
The McGill Sustainable Labs Guide contains a variety of actionable steps that lab users can take to make their lab operations more sustainable. Some of these practices can be applied …
- Posted Jan. 17, 2023
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Engaging with Indigenous Communities for Climate Action: The Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project
- McGill University (QC)
The Bayano-McGill Reforestation Project is an initiative that is at the leading edge of carbon offsetting projects in higher education. The multi-faceted initiative, financed by the University, provides benefits to …
- Posted May 20, 2022
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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Salisbury University (MD)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- McGill University (QC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- National Geographic Society (DC)
- TREE Foundation (FL)
Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Mapping social structures for sustainability transformation at McGill University, Canada
- McGill University (QC)
For a university to be a prime mover for sustainability transformation, all units of the university should contribute. However, organizational change in educational institutions is often studied by examining specific …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Embedding Sustainability in University Governance
- McGill University (QC)
Campus sustainability movements often begin as student-led, grassroots efforts, which lead to impactful operational changes and commitments to sustainable practices. At McGill University, these efforts helped create an Office of …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Fund Strategies to Develop the Most Spectacular Projects Possible
- McGill University (QC)
Campus sustainability fund managers have myriad opportunities to stimulate, encourage, and develop more robust and impactful project proposals. The Sustainability Projects Fund at McGill University is a vibrant example of …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Catalyzing a Culture of Sustainability at McGill University with the Sustainability Projects Fund
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a crown jewel of McGill's sustainability efforts and a best-practice model for universities. The SPF's main goal is to build a culture of sustainability …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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University Sustainability Funds 2.0: A Model for the Next Generation
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- McGill University (QC)
The University of Washington's Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and McGill University's Sustainability Project Fund (SPF) are two of the largest university sustainability funds in North America with yearly budgets of …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Staff Engagement Escalator: A Facilitated Discussion on Developing Human Potential
- University of Virginia (VA)
- McGill University (QC)
What are the clever ways we meet new staff members and pull them into the fold? --- Why do some staff members attend events but not engage beyond that? --- …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Water Bottle Refill Station, McGill, Downtown Campus
- McGill University (QC)
As part of the 2019 Refill McGill campaign, the sale of water bottles was banned on campus. During the course of the campaign, over 30 water fountains were installed or …
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Eric Champagne, Horticultural Supervisor for McGill’s Downtown Campus
- McGill University (QC)
Eric Champagne, the Horticultural Supervisor for McGill’s Downtown Campus, has been indispensable since he joined the Grounds team in 2003. Through his work, a campus that was once filled with …
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Bike Parking on the Downtown McGill Campus
- McGill University (QC)
According to a 2017-2018 transportation survey, 94% of students and 80% of employees use sustainable methods of transit to get to campus.
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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McGill University, Downtown Campus, McTavish Street
- McGill University (QC)
McTavish is a pedestrianized street on McGill's downtown campus.
McGill Board of Governors Committee on Sustainability - In December 2019, the McGill University Board of Governors approved the establishment of …
- Posted Aug. 20, 2021
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McGill University, Downtown Campus, McCall MacBain Arts Building flying the Hiawatha Wampum Belt Flag
- McGill University (QC)
The Hiawatha Wampum Belt flag has for centuries symbolized unity and peace between the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk nations.
McGill Board of Governors Committee on Sustainability - In …
- Posted Aug. 20, 2021
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McGill University, Downtown Campus, McCall MacBain Arts Building flying the Hiawatha Wampum Belt Flag
- McGill University (QC)
A picture of McGill University's iconic McCall MacBain Arts Building flying the Hiawatha Wampum Belt flag, which has for centuries symbolized unity and peace between the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, …
- Posted Aug. 20, 2021
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Scaling the Ladder: Engagement Programs as Tools for Sustainability
- McGill University (QC)
- AASHE (MA)
There is often tension between the focus on individual behavioral action and systemic change in sustainability circles. How do we encourage the small steps that engage community members on a …
- Posted Sept. 17, 2020
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Learning and Teaching Through the Online Environmental Justice Atlas: From Empowering Activists to Motivating Students
- McGill University (QC)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona)
The chapter analyzes how the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas.org), an online interactive platform developed to visualize and study struggles against environmental injustices worldwide, is used in higher education curricula to …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Vision 2020 Climate & Sustainability Action Plan (2017-2020)
- McGill University (QC)
Vision 2020: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan 2017-2020 (hereinafter ‘Vision 2020’ or the ‘Action Plan’)—McGill’s second sustainability strategy and the first to incorporate climate action—institutionalized concrete initiatives to reduce McGill’s …
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Geographic versus institutional drivers of nitrogen footprints: A comparison of two urban universities
- McGill University (QC)
- Université de Montréal (QC)
Excess reactive nitrogen (N) is linked to a myriad of environmental problems that carry large societal costs. Nitrogen footprint tools can help institutions understand how their direct and indirect activities …
- Posted March 5, 2020
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Award Winner Session: The Ladder of Staff Engagement: Programs Designed to Move From Individual Steps to Collective Action
- McGill University (QC)
There is often tension between the focus on individual behavioral action and systemic change in sustainability circles. How do we encourage the small steps that engage community members on a …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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The environmental footprint of academic and student mobility in a large research-oriented university
- McGill University (QC)
- Université de Montréal (QC)
Academic mobility for field work, research dissemination and global outreach is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to the overall environmental footprint of research institutions. Student mobility, while less studied, …
- Posted Dec. 2, 2019
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Scaling the Ladder: Engagement Programs as Tools for Sustainability
- McGill University (QC)
- AASHE (MA)
Using examples from McGill University, this webinar covers how practitioners can use the ladder of engagement can turn small changes into meaningful, collective action. While there is often a debate …
- Posted May 23, 2019
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The McGill Staff Engagement Ladder
- McGill University (QC)
Between 2016 and 2019, the McGill Office of Sustainability developed four separate engagement programs to increase collective sustainability actions for staff, students, and faculty. The programs were strategically developed to …
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Sustainability Projects Fund
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) has been created to help promote and build a culture of sustainability at McGill, with the primary purpose of the fund to create opportunities for …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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The Applied Student Research Toolkit
- McGill University (QC)
This Applied Student Research (ASR) toolkit is designed to help students complete an impactful ASR project. ASR related to sustainability is an opportunity for students to address the needs of …
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Bioresource Engineering (MS)
- McGill University (QC)
The Bioresource Engineering program (BREE) is interdisciplinary, being founded on an integration of engineering with the biological sciences. Bioresource Engineering includes the design, construction, operation, maintenance, remediation and upgrading of …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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BS in Environment
- McGill University (QC)
Students are exposed to the different approaches, perspectives, and world views that will help them gain an understanding of the complexity and conflicts that underlie most environmental problems. Through the …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Diploma in Environment
- McGill University (QC)
The Diploma in Environment is designed for students with an undergraduate degree who wish to enrich or reorient their training, supplementing their specialization with additional undergraduate level course work. The …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Minor in Environment
- McGill University (QC)
The Environment Minor (18 credits) is intended to complement the expertise gained through a major or faculty program outside the MSE. Students taking an Environment Minor are exposed to different …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environment Concentration, Master of Laws (LLM)
- McGill University (QC)
The Faculty of Law together with the School of Environment and other units at McGill offers a 45-credit, LL. M. program, non-thesis option, in Environment. The program complements previous legal …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Geography (MS)
- McGill University (QC)
Geography is the study of physical environments and human habitats. It deals with people and places. It covers issues such as global warming and climate change, food and water resources, …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainability in Governance at McGill University - 2017 Sustainable Campus Index
- McGill University (QC)
In November 2015, the template used at McGill University for Board and Senate memorandum was expanded to include a question on sustainability issues that are to be considered for motions …
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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McGill University’s Fairtrade Campus Commitment: Roddick Roast Coffee
- McGill University (QC)
- Fairtrade Canada (ON)
- The Canadian Fair Trade Network (BC)
In June 2013, McGill University was given the designation of Fair Trade Campus by the Canadian Fair Trade Network (CFTN). This means that 100% of coffee sold on campus is …
- Posted May 22, 2017
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McGill University's Sustainability Projects Fund
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a crown jewel of McGill University’s sustainability efforts and a best-practice model for universities. The SPF’s main goal is to build a culture of …
- Posted May 19, 2017
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McGill Students Lobby to Create Climate Officer Position
- McGill University (QC)
In Spring 2016, Management PhD student Amir Nosrat, and other colleagues at the Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University, came up with the idea to create a Climate Officer position …
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Agricultural Economics
- McGill University (QC)
This program provides students with applied economic concepts and tools to identify, define, and analyze economic problems affecting the performance of the agri-food sector and the environment. The ideal prior …
- Posted May 15, 2017
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The Sustainability Literacy Test: Implementation strategies for campuses
- McGill University (QC)
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
The Sustainability Literacy Test provides higher education institutions, companies and other organizations around the world with an internationally recognized and locally relevant tool to measure and improve sustainability literacy. This …
- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Meet Universities who are Reinventing Relevance via Innovation Districts that include Corporations and Cities.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- McGill University (QC)
- Morphosis Architecture (NY)
Join Jane Talkington for a national overview on Innovation Districts, a burgeoning new form in which the university can GO BEYOND campus boundaries to create relevance by building interdisciplinary capacity …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Teacher preparation for Education for Sustainable Development: A participatory video research in Canada
- McGill University (QC)
This presentation will discuss a study that examines prospective teachers' understanding of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and competencies in relation to teaching sustainability concepts in K-12 settings in Quebec, …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Catalyzing a Culture of Sustainability on Campus: the Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) of McGill University
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) of McGill University was created in 2010 to catalyze a culture of sustainability on its campuses. The SPF is one of the largest dedicated sustainability …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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