Conestoga Green

06/01/2012

The soild prep in action!

06/01/2012

This is what the garden contains, and will grow. All planting was completed on Tuesday, May 29th.

02/03/2012

Effort worth noting.

01/31/2012

http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2012/01/30/conestoga-acres-to-bloom-this-summer

Conestoga Acres is the soon-to-be blooming food garden located at the recently completed Conestoga College Cambridge Campus. It is inspired by the values upheld by the Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable and the understanding that food is more than a branded container on a shelf in the aisle betw...

01/30/2012

Biodiversity is key to health of the ecosystem, and not surprisingly you and me. The more variety there is in nature, the greater our resilience when exposed to upheavals in the environment, be it, drought, pest, floods, and side effects from industrialization.

USC Canada is a non-profit, international development organization working to improve livelihoods by promoting agricultural biodiversity. The organization was founded in 1945 by Lotta Hitschmanova as the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada.

01/19/2012

This is the film I hope to show at some point this term in the Doon campus Atrium over lunch. I think it's a great persepctive on the possibilities and solutions to many impending problems in today's western society.

Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills.

01/12/2012

2nd yr. Interior Decorating students demonstrate taking a piece of "trash" and make it live again like art. Check out the Chair-ity Galla live auction April 3. Proof that garbage is only a state of mind. No such state should exist :)

By ALYSHA MILLER Conestoga’s second-year interior decorating students are bringing a whole new meaning to the word charity. This is after Leslee Squirrell, a professor in the program, came up...

09/09/2011

Thursday, Sept. 15, 6:00-9:00 pm: "Roadmap to Success": OSEA's Community Energy Information Session at City Hall in Kitchener. Contact [email protected] for more information.

08/26/2011

A pretty momentous event took place on the 22nd in terms of Ontario's waste management strategy. EFW's are controversial in this part of the world, but a standard practice in other parts. Is this new facility a solution to a cultural problem of consumption and waste?

The Regional Municipalities of Durham and York in Ontario recently broke ground on their new Durham York Energy Centre (DYEC), a state-of-the-art, energy-from-waste (EFW) facility that was made possible due to funding from the federal Gas Tax...

08/22/2011

The bonus: Conestoga is capable of building our own in-vessel composter. Look at our skills and see if we're up to it.

Conestoga College is centrally located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, a "hot-bed" of high tech manufacturing and automated equipment design and manufacturing.

08/22/2011

Check out how University of McGill got their composter.

Former coordinator David Gray-Donald (left) with the McGill University Director of Sustainability, Dennis Fortune (right), at the launch event for the Big Hanna in-vessel composter on October 19, 2010, as part of waste reduction week.

08/22/2011

What if..... we build our own on-site in-vessel composter? There are a lot of gains to consider with this: self sufficiency in managing our food waste effectively (food is over 50% of our annual combined landfilled waste) not to mention the savings in CO2 emissions and waste haulage service costs. That's the simple summary. Economics, shake hands with nature!