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Friday, May 13, 2016
by Carly Foubert, CFICE Volunteer You’ve planted your garden, now what? Gardening is an excellent and rewarding hands-on learning experience. It’s also a great way to contribute to environmental sustainability and will help save money along the way. Whether it’s a community garden or one in your own backyard, gardening is also a fantastic... More
Thursday, May 5, 2016
An article published by the Ottawa Citizen May 4, 2016 reports on a GottaGo! study, completed by Masters of Social Work students from Carleton University, that has found City of Ottawa public bathrooms wanting. Over the course of this year, a group of social work grad students partnered with GottaGo! to complete a study reviewing the... More
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
by Omar Elsharkawy, CFICE Admin RA As explored in the last blog post, gardening has many benefits. Gardening and growing your own food increases community food security, contributes to environmental sustainability, and will help you save money. In addition, community gardening contributes to a greater sense of community for the people involved.... More
Monday, April 18, 2016
by John Marris, Community Co-lead, Community Environmental Sustainability (Peterborough/Haliburton) Hub On April 7th the Trent Community Research Centre, one of CFICE's Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) hub partners in Peterborough/Haliburton, in cooperation with Trent University and Fleming College, hosted the annual Community... More
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
On March 31, 2016, the Ottawa Citizen released a piece updating readers on the progression of the GottaGo! campaign. One of the partners of CFICE's Community Environmental Sustainability Hub, GottaGo! is an advocacy group campaigning for a network of public toilets in Ottawa. Back in October 2015, they were in the process of lobbying... More
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
by Omar Elsharkawy, CFICE Admin RA Summer is almost upon us. Time to stop worrying about shovelling your driveway and start thinking about gardening. What better way to start gardening than by joining (or starting your own) community garden with your neighbors and fellow community members? For those who don’t know, community gardens are... More
Monday, April 11, 2016
by Amy Richardson, CFICE Communications RA The Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) hub at Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) works towards facilitating community-campus partnerships to increase environmental sustainability. The CES hub functions at the local level in three key communities across Ontario: Ottawa,... More
Friday, March 25, 2016
by Magda Goemans, CFICE CES (Ottawa) Hub RA In the Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) Ottawa Hub, we are about to share reflections on the day-to-day experience of community-campus engagement (CCE) in the upcoming release of the edited volume Seeking Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Municipalities, to be published by McGill-Queen’s... More
Monday, March 14, 2016
Have your say. Take our survey! Have you heard? CFICE is making some exciting new changes! As was proposed in our initial SSHRC application, CFICE is getting ready to transition to Phase II of our work. In order to transition smoothly, we want to hear from YOU regarding how you might want to be... More
Monday, March 7, 2016
by Tessa Nasca, CFICE RA, with Nadine Changfoot, Community Environmental Sustainability hub (Peterborough/Haliburton) Academic Co-lead The Active Neighbourhoods Canada (ANC) CFICE demonstration project is underway in Peterborough, Ontario. The project, which is a part of a national network of twelve projects that use participatory design towards a... More
Thursday, March 3, 2016
This presentation, given by Todd Barr, Former Community Co-lead of the Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) Hub, outlines a few of CES Peterborough/Haliburton's community campus partnership projects from 2013. This presentation was given as part of a workshop at the 2013 GUNI Conference, held at Polytechnic University of Catalonia,... More
Friday, February 26, 2016
On February 23, our own Community Environmental Sustainability hub (Ottawa) academic co-lead, Professor Trish Ballamingie, was awarded a Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentor Award for her dedication and her ability to inspire the graduate students with whom she works. We are very proud to have her energy and enthusiasm as part of the... More
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