Press Releases
Today, the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC), Mobiligo, and the NDG Community Council publicly launched the Green, Active, and Healthy Neighbourhood Plan (GHAN) for Southeastern NDG. “This plan has more than sixty recommended actions that favour active transportation and safer walking conditions in Southeastern Notre-Dame-de-Grâce,” says Luc Rabouin, executive director of the MUEC. The GHAN Plan for Southeastern NDG, presented at the Saint-Raymond Community Centre, was widely welcomed by elected officials from the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (CDN—NDG), and the borough mayor, Michael Applebaum, announced the implementation of three recommended actions in early 2012. (Read the PDF for the entire text)
Les locataires des habitations Îlots Saint-Martin, l'Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal (OMHM) et le Centre d'écologie urbaine de Montréal (CEUM) ont présenté au voisinage, aux élus et aux partenaires locaux les interventions de verdissement réalisées autour des immeubles à l'angle de St-Jacques et Des Seigneurs durant la première année du projet La Ville en vert. [...]
By request of the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC), five one-day pedestrian streets will take place in Montréal on September 18, 22, and 25 for the event In Town Without My Car All Week Long. “With these pedestrian streets, we are taking advantage of In Town Without My Car All Week Long to broaden people’s thinking on the role of cars in neighbourhoods outside of downtown Montréal,” says Luc Rabouin, executive director of the MUEC.(...)
At the closing ceremony of the ninth Ecocity World Summit, held for the first time in Canada and organized by the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC), Jayne Engle-Warnick, vice-president of the MUEC, said: “The Ecocity Summit brought together 1,500 delegates from 280 cities and 70 countries. Based on what we heard from experts during the conference, cities in Canada and all over the world are facing enormous challenges with limited resources. But we also heard that cities are the key to solving global issues such as climate change, the fight against poverty, and social exclusion.” (...)
The Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC) launches Les plantes grimpante: une solution rafraîchissante (Climbing Plants: a refreshing solution), a guide to greening walls at a low-cost. “The MUEC decided to promote climbing plants because they are the most accessible and affordable way to green vertical surfaces,” says Owen Rose, president of the MUEC. You can download the guide for free on the MUEC’s website: www.urbanecology.net/document/climbing-plants-a-refreshing-solution [...]
Now, more than ever, is the time to challenge the Ministry of Transportation’s (MTQ) project that was presented in November 2010. Last Thursday, April 14, 2011, Mobilisation Turcot and the MUEC brought together more than 40 representatives from different organizations, political parties, and citizen groups to fight for a project that is worthy of the 21st Century. This spring will be hot with a series of mobilization actions to increase awareness of the issues surrounding Turcot at different public events in April and May, provide information to the public, and organize a big, city-wide event in downtown Montréal on World Environment Day, Sunday, June 5. [...]
On the weekend of May 7-8th, Jane’s Walk, an event hosted in Montreal by the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC), will lead free, guided walking tours in fifteen neighbourhoods on the Island of Montréal. “The 3rd edition of Jane’s Walk in Montréal will offer 25 walks with a variety of themes, allowing us to discover something new about the culture, history, or heritage of neighbourhoods that we may already be very familiar with,” says Luc Rabouin, Director of the MUEC. “The walks are organized by volunteer walk leaders who are knowledgeable and passionate about their neighbourhood. Each year, we are blown away by the turnout. We’re expecting more than 1,000 participants in 2011,” he adds. [...]
Montréal, March 21, 2011 – The Palais des congrès de Montréal and the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC) are proud to announce that their project Culti-Vert received funding today from the Ministry of Health’s Climate Change Action Plan that includes a section for reducing the negative health impacts of urban heat islands. Read more>>
Lahti, Finland – November 5, 2010 Écotech Québec, Québec’s Cleantech Cluster, today announced that the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA), the new worldwide network of cleantech clusters, will hold its first international conference in Montréal during the Ecocity World Summit in August 2011. [...]
Yesterday, about 40 employees and their families, as well as Alcoa Canada partners from the Montréal region, joined forces with the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre and the Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal (OMHM) to build 300 urban agriculture containers for use in low rent housing projects (HLMs). [...]
“Urban agriculture containers built by the Alcoa team from recycled materials will be distributed to the residents during our interventions in different low-rent housing greening projects on the Island of Montréal” explains Saleema Hutchinson, Education and Citizenship Project Manager at the Montréal Urban Ecology Centre. These garden project interventions are part of the La ville en vert (Green City) initiative, partially funded by Québec Government’s Green Fund and aiming at the reduction of urban heat islands. This volunteer activity also supports OMHM’s 2010-2014 Sustainability Action Plan, which aims to encourage urban gardening and greening projects. According to Nicolas Joly, Director, Sustainability at the OMHM, “these containers, which will be distributed free of charge, will support our tenants in their greening efforts toward the embellishment of the housing projects and encourage a greater participation in the Montréal Low-Rent Housing Les Pouces Verts (Green Thumbs) contest.”
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