Educational Videos
CréaSon
categories: Recycling | No comment
This project was founded by two percussionists whose hearts beat for the environment. The drummers tour schools in order to show students that artistic projects can be achieved using recycled objects. After the show, students are prompted to invent percussion instruments with recovered objects and... Read more »
Neufchâtel professional training centre
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The Centre de formation professionnelle de Neufchâtel and its carpentry school help the City of Quebec recover trees that have been cut down. They have an agreement with the City where they collect elms for making furniture. Students thus have the opportunity to work with a less often used species... Read more »
Cœur-Vaillant, an entrepreneurial community school
categories: Local solidarity | No comment
Students of this school take part in environmental projects that give back to the community. For instance, they’ve instituted waste-free lunches where all students of the school must bring a meal that produces net zero garbage. This way, pupils learn how to recycle and most of all how to reduce... 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 »
Toy story
Histoire de jouets is a vocational adjustment platform used by the Florès centre for handicapped people. In this boutique, all employees are Florès patients that have integrated the work force thanks to this store. The goal of this initiative, in addition to including intellectually challenged... Read more »
Toy library in Sainte-Foy
In this business dedicated to responsible consumers, parents can borrow toys for a limited time and come back to trade them in for other toys afterwards. That way parents don’t have to buy toys that after a while just sit on shelves, unused. In addition, the toy library promotes interaction... Read more »
The art of recovery, Zayé style
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Zayé is a handicrafts boutique that sells recovered decorative objects. After leading very stressful professional lives, two women found a common bond in their shared passion for recovering objects. Instead of throwing away various items such as clothes for instance, people within the... Read more »
Sorting things out at Cascatelle
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A simple idea, beautifully executed that is what Cascatelle school is offering. The school cafeteria includes a sorting area where students can do their part for the environment. They sort whatever’s left of their meal, that way only the minimum amount of waste ends up in the garbage can. 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 »
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