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Walking westward down Notre-Dame from Atwater just gets cooler and cooler.  A new store front, a new neighbour, a new destination for all of you in the Sud-Ouest.  Tucked between a landmark (Dilallo burgers) and much sought after first coffee […]

ok.  Quebecers went from using 5 million plastic bags a month to 1.5 million a month after major grocery stores started charging a nickel per.  Nice.  Here’s the next step/leap.  Time to move way past the small stuff and rethink our construction practices.  We don’t need to reinvent anything during the design process, there are […]

The sustainable harvest
Why garlic from China? We’re browsing over the bounteous produce in a local supermarket: carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, five kinds of squash, russet potatoes and pale-skinned ones, cauliflowers in purple, orange and green as well as white. 
 
Éric Darier, a sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace, has joined a Gazette reporter and photographer to shop […]

Every Thursday the coop hosts farmer’s from Ferme du Zéphyr based in Senneville.  Go read more on Spacing Montreal.

Here’s an oldie (15 yrs as a coop and still running) but still a goodie, the Frigo Vert. Bonus if you’re a student at ConU, seeing as it’s right across the street from the GW campus on Mackay. Small, mostly clean with all the usual suspects inside. Check it out if you’re […]