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

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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 :

• iOS
• Android

Also, we are currently raising funds through community bonds ($30,000 @ $500/bond).
Our goal is to use this money as leverage to raise additional funds to finance the development of our application. For more information on our bonds, see our prospectus.

Community Bonds allow individuals to invest (via a loan) in a non-profit organization with the expectation of getting their money back at the end of the term (as with any start-up, there are no guarantees and the investment is highly risky). Please note that the bonds are open for purchase until April 29, 2021.

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

Contact : canada@scienceadvocates.us

More information : https://www.facebook.com/ScienceAdvocatesCA

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 net zero target by 2030. Starting last year WeDIP has already engaged with 12 government departments, 10 organizations, and 10 volunteers/student interns. We need help from the city and other sponsors attempting to identify key challenges, gap assessment and international best practices to design an implementation framework.

Help needed : Data, Mobilization, Strategy

End date : 2030-01-01

Contact : kristi.h@netimpactmtl.org

More information : https://netimpactmtl.org/en/home/

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 Biochar and possibly Soil Carbon Sequestration.

Help needed : Outreach, Research, Strategy, Data

End date : 2030-01-01

Contact: dbrucemerlo@outlook.com

More information : http://www.plenty4all.net

We oppose any attempt to privatize the site, as has happened to many other hospitals, and major institutional and ecclesiastical sites close to the mountain, like the Children’s Hospital (sold off a cost of $25 million, when its property assessment was $47 million), the Chest Hospital (purchased by condo developers), as well as Marianopolis College, the Couvent d’Outremont, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, and the Shriners Hospital. Other publicly-owned sites in Montreal that have been sold off for private developers include the Radio-Canada site and the Peel-Bonaventure Basin site.

Help needed : Communications, Outreach, Strategy, Mobilization, Data

End date : 2030-01-01

Contact : info@royalvic.org

More information : RoyalVic.org

Do you have opinions and ideas about the Plateau, how it is changing, and what this means for the future of those who live and work here? You are not alone! Join your neighbors to identify issues facing Plateau residents and workers, explore solutions, and communicate with municipal, provincial, federal and school elected officials.

End date : 2030-01-01

Contact : anousleplateau@gmail.com

More information : www.anousleplateau.org

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 volume of waste in landfills, which saves the municipality money and reduces consumption at the source and the losses that are generated. It’s an idea I’ve had for 6 years. This is only the first part.

I am looking for people who would like to set up this project with me, funding to pay the people needed to create it, a person in graphic design, strategic organization and marketing. Thank you! Sarah Hanneman

End date : 2022-02-22

Contact : shanneman3@yahoo.com

Image by Pete Linforth at Pixabay

The waste due to weekly bags of flyers is the equivalent of abandoning 62 buses in the streets of Montreal, EVERY WEEK. In spite of the distributors’ reassurances, none of this is recyclable until the plastic bags are separated from their paper contents, and our overwhelmed sorting centres simply cannot do it. Our solution is simple: 1- ban the plastic bags, and 2- deliver flyers only to citizens who are interested enough to post an authorization on their mailboxes.

Since the City has included these ideas in the waste-reduction plan that it adopted last August, all that’s left to do is insist on a prompt implementation. For this, we’ve prepared a guide to help volunteers write to their councillors in order to demonstrate that this issue can’t be swept under the rug. Please help!

Our partners:

• Friends of the Earth
• Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique
• Association québécoise pour la promotion de l’éducation relative à l’environnement
• Coalition Climat Montréal
• The Council of Canadians
• Environnement jeunesse
• Équiterre
• The David Suzuki Foundation
• Greenpeace Canada
• Nature Québec
• The Climate Reality Project
• The RAVEN group of First Nations
• Sierra Club

Help needed : Mobilization

End date: 2021-06-30

Contact : CharlesMontpetit@yahoo.com

More information :

www.antipublisac.com

www.facebook.com/antipublisac

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 : info@foireecosphere.org

From March to October 2020, hundreds of volunteer cyclists made more than 100,000 deliveries by collaborating with some 15 community organizations in 5 Montreal boroughs. In fact, the Solon organization was a key partner in providing us with free bike trailers for our deliveries.

So we need to continue to spread the word about our initiative so that people will lend a hand with their bikes and their beautiful smiles! In addition, our horizontal structure favours the participation of everyone and each person can contribute according to his or her skills/interests/availability. In other words, the type of involvement in our organization is varied, from coordinating the logistics of deliveries, to taking care of our social networks or even making videos.

More information : Facebook page

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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.

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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, cleaner air, healthier citizens and a healthier urban ecosystem. Vancouver has banned them since 2001, and Beaconsfield and St-Lambert have done so more recently. It is time that our borough did so as well.

We are seeking a Treasurer to handle bookkeeping and fundraising efforts, and if fundraising is successful we would use some of the returns to pay this person a stipend. We also need volunteers for handing out flyers and educating the public.

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Our petition

Web Site

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 Weather Observatory located in the heart of downtown Montreal. This data is valuable and once digitized, it can be analyzed by computers and allow us to learn more about past weather and its impact on individuals and societies.

The DRAW project therefore invites citizens who are willing to offer a little of their time to capture these millions of observations. Volunteers do not need to have a scientific background and they do their work at home with their computers. In this way, they help increase our knowledge of past weather patterns, while preserving and communicating the history of Canada’s early meteorologists. Their work also contributes to a better understanding of current climate change. The results will eventually be used to calibrate models that investigate the potential climate of the future.

If you are interested in collaborating in this project, you are invited to register on the DRAW website. If you have any questions, please contact the DRAW team at draw.mcgill@gmail.com.

Working with local partners (including municipal leaders) to make the responsible and ecological development of Lachine East a priority for the City of Montreal. Obtaining a public consultation with the OCPM. Providing educational opportunities for the public to learn about the heritage and history of the 60+ hectares to be developed over the next 15-20 years. Local partners are the GRAME and the CDEC as well as the Montreal Climate Coalition.

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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
• Maintain and improve the website
• Seek funding and grants
• Form a scientific committee to guide the economic model
• Conduct a descriptive study of the utility of the Islet for the Montréal territory
• Animate social networks

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My 2nd wish – a donation for the climate

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 cards (which are lying in the drawers of our families, friends, neighbours, colleagues, etc.) in order to produce new cards of all categories (birthdays, Christmas, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, etc.). We would also be happy to collaborate with small elves (volunteers) who would like to participate in pleasant moments of creation!

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The actions carried out mainly consist of attending municipal council meetings, asking questions to elected officials and maintaining relations with elected officials in the city, as well as with provincial and federal elected officials.

To participate: contact@coalition climatmtl.org

For more information, contact Matthew Chapman.

For more information or to get involved, contact Kunal Garje.