Prix

Alternatives


Des jardins sur les toits est un projet d' Alternatives, un réseau d'action et de communication pour le développement international.

Garden Image

rotem's blog

Recipe to make a stairway garden

Are you a citizen with no land and no roof, but only a fire escape stairwell to take advantage of the sun? Read this recipe to transform your stairwell into a garden!

Posted to: Gardening Techniques and Dissemination | Rooftop Gardening Resources | Ressources pour le jardinage
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Sat, 31/03/2007 - 11:38am.



Rooftop Project TV Coverage on "Rebut Globale" in 2006

Re-live summer by watching this short film about our project in 2006, that was made by the Québecois TV series Rébut Globale (or Global Waste)...
(click here)

Posted to: Community Involvement | Gardening Techniques and Dissemination | Media Coverage | Couverture médiatique
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Tue, 27/02/2007 - 5:16pm.



Check it out - images of the Rooftop Garden Project in an online video!

We found this by chance on the world wide web. How exciting to see a short video about urban agriculture, and the Rooftop Garden Project has such a strong presence!

Check it out on YouTube:

Posted to: Media Coverage | Couverture médiatique
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Tue, 23/01/2007 - 6:56pm.



Spreading the Roots: An assessment of the social and enviromental impacts of the Rooftop Garden Project

Written by Rotem Ayalon, for the Rooftop Garden Project
December 2006
(full document attached as a pdf below)

Posted to: Environmental Improvement | Health and Quality of Life Improvement | Our Publications | Nos publications
read more | 1 attachment | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Fri, 22/12/2006 - 1:16pm.



Participate in an international internship for 4 months with Alternatives!

Vous êtes un citoyen canadien**, un résident permanent ou une personne  à qui l’on a accordé le statut de réfugié au Canada, et n’avez jamais  participé à un stages cyberjeunes?

Imaginez : apprendre à faire le design de sites Internet pour des ONG  en Amérique Latine ; envoyer à partir de l’Afrique des reportages pour  la radio ; être témoins des défis qu’affrontent les organisations de  défense des droits humains en Asie et bien d’autres regroupements  civils partout au monde!

read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Wed, 25/10/2006 - 12:32pm.



Educational Guide now available!

To obtain a French version of the educational guide Roots Around the World, email us at marianne@alternatives.ca, mentioning the name of your institution or organization and your name and coordinates. You can also order a pdf version on a CD.

read more | 1 attachment | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Wed, 01/10/2008 - 11:06am.



Harvest festivities in bloom: Students reap benefits of rooftop garden

In the McGill Tribune
September 25, 2007

During the summer, McGill's architecture department teamed up with Roof-Top Gardens to illustrate how urban agriculture can be a real possibility by growing an assortment of vegetables and fruits over the concrete steps of the Burnside building. Last Thursday, the architecture department and the local organization held a Harvest Festival in front of Burnside building.

Posted to: Community Involvement | Media Coverage | Couverture médiatique
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Fri, 28/09/2007 - 3:14pm.



Press release - Rooftop Garden Harvest Festival 2007

Montreal. September 11, 2007.

Alternatives, Santropol Roulant and the Minimum Cost Housing Group of McGill University’s School of Architecture invites you to join us for the Rooftop Garden Project’s Harvest Festival at the Edible Campus Garden (Jardin du Roulant) on Thursday September 20th 2007 from 5 to 10 pm in front of the Burnside Hall, on the main campus of McGill University.

Posted to: Community Involvement | Our Publications | Nos publications
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Tue, 11/09/2007 - 4:45pm.



Gardens Above Gridlock (article from Ascent magazine)

Writer Anne Read, seeks to plant a rooftop garden, and finds a community growing all around her.

Check out the article here

Posted to: Community Involvement | Media Coverage | Couverture médiatique
read more | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Fri, 27/04/2007 - 3:25pm.



Urban Planning Master's Thesis on rooftop greening

Before beginning to work full-time with the Rooftop Garden Project, I wrote my Master's thesis for a degree in Urban Planning on municipal strategies to encourage rooftop greening ("Making Rooftops Bloom: Strategies for encouraging rooftop greening in Montreal).

Posted to: Gardening Techniques and Dissemination | Our Publications | Nos publications | Rooftop Gardening Resources | Ressources pour le jardinage
read more | 1 attachment | arrow Top of page

Submitted by rotem on Thu, 02/11/2006 - 3:50pm.



XML feed