The Rooftop Garden was the recipient of two recent prizes:

Le Prix Phénix de l'environnement

Prix de Design Urbain

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Submitted by Tim on Wed, 11/06/2008 - 5:00pm.

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.

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

I (along with Mark and Erin) have had the privilege this season to help Mr. Bouchard set up his own balcony garden. Little did we know how much we'd be learning from him!

He has been gardening since he was seven years old, making it 80 years of gardening experience! This is the first year, though, that he hasn't been able to make the long trek to the garden behind his apartment building and work the earth as he's been doing for so many years. Having a Ready-to-Grow kit on his own balcony has given him a way to continue gardening, but not have to worry about falling on his way there or deal with the difficulties of bending over, which gardening in the soil requires.

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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 08/08/2006 - 2:42pm.

During WWI and WWII, individual citizens in North America were included in the war effort by growing food at their own homes. Gardening today, especially at this time of wars in the Middle East, is a way for us North Americans to do our part. Although we haven't yet been called on by the government to garden on a large scale, individuals and communities are choosing to garden as a way to be peaceful. We can prepare for a future world with no more oil (and hopefully no more oil wars) by gardening at our own homes and community centers.

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Submitted by rotem on Fri, 28/07/2006 - 1:06pm.

by Mark McGuire
July 2006

In our summer Continuing Education course in Dawson College's Humanities department we've been exploring global warming and climate change, threats to our food security and biodiversity posed by industrial agriculture, and the looming peak in the global oil supply. We ask, "How does our participation in modern consumer culture implicate us in the rapid devastation of our human community and natural environment? What are our responsibilities as human beings and global citizens to respond collectively with imagination to these huge, complicated problems? What obstacles prevent us from getting good information and developing creative strategies for resistance?" By taking seriously and actually lending a hand to the ongoing efforts of local community organizations (Santropol Roulant and Alternatives, to name but two) to find meaningful and sustainable solutions to these problems, students have discovered that, as our course title suggests, "Another World is Possible," so long as we abandon despair and commit to activist-engagement with our local communities.

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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 20/07/2006 - 12:56pm.