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Environmental awareness

An electric car at the CFP Roberval–Saint-Félicien

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The Centre de formation professionnelle de Roberval–Saint-Félicien is the first ever to achieve the complete conversion of an electric vehicle. They managed to modify a pickup truck entirely and make it into an electric vehicle equipped with 100 kilometres of autonomy. This project enabled the... Read more »

Étincelle school

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Students at Étincelle school take part in all kinds of environmental projects. Be it making recycled skipping rope, powering the school’s radio station with solar energy and a windmill or via the “Pumpkin Promise” project that uses compost to grow the school’s pumpkin patch, students are... Read more »

Notre-Dame-de-la-Trinité school marches for water

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Within the scope of a program called Citoyens du monde, teachers are raising student awareness of worldwide problems, poverty, malnutrition, the environment, etc. During our visit to the school, students were marching in order to bring attention to the water supply issue affecting the planet. Read more »

“Carbon agents” rule Mont-Bleu school

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At this school, teachers have made students aware of carbon dioxide pollution caused by cars. They have set up a squad of “carbon agents” whose mission is to hand out tickets to parents picking up their children from school. Those who do not turn off their engine while waiting get a traffic... Read more »

University of Quebec at Rimouski: CADUCC

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The CADUCC is a green committee started by a UQAR professor who encouraged students to follow in his footsteps and become members. Since then, the CADUCC has covered various disciplines and taken many interesting initiatives: conferences, school tours and the Loutérou project. Loutérou offers an... Read more »

A Brundtland Green School: Félix-Antoine-Savard

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This school is part of the Brundtland Green Schools movement and chock-full of green activity. A brigade nicknamed “École-Net” has been set up to keep the school clean while other pupils are at recess. The school also collects cellular phones, batteries and printer cartridges. A “resource... Read more »

Memphrémagog’s CFER

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A CFER is a type of business and recovery training centre that coaches young people who have dropped out of school, having them take part in projects and thus driving them towards reintegrating the system. That’s why the sustainable development caravan was created, which travels from one... Read more »

Odyssée high school goes carbon-neutral

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This establishment’s ultimate goal is to make the school carbon-neutral. To that end, a tree nursery has been set up in the schoolyard. The school measures its carbon footprint using a calculation method and plants a sufficient number of trees in its nursery to compensate for it. Read more »

Saint-Maurice valley forest association takes root

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This organization’s main objective is to inform the population of how important it is to conserve Saint-Maurice valley’s forest treasures. To do so, they go to local elementary and high schools, where they heighten children’s and teenagers’ awareness of forest resources. Thanks to fun ... Read more »

Sacré-Cœur school collects and helps

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It was in the spirit of solidarity that students at Sacré-Cœur school started separately collecting pins from drink cans and ties from bread bags. Money gathered when depositing these items at the drop-off center is donated back to the city’s hospital, towards the purchase of therapeutic... Read more »