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The Free Store has all the gear you need to keep your life balanced.

Our community gardens are starting to take off! Power to the worms!!!

So you may be asking yourself "What's up with the construction in the FSS parking lot?" Unfortunately we are unpaving paradise to put up a park... for you lot

#uOttawa #Office of Campus Sustainability #parks #parking #construction #green

Water conference at the University of Ottawa

Clever students now how to pack light for University. Find out the 5 things you should absolutely not pack!

http://thesustainabilitree.blogspot.ca/2014/08/5-things-you-shouldnt-pack-on-your-way.html

Come volunteer at the Dump and Run.... every day we find something new and awesome. [email protected]

Venez nous aider pour l'événement Déposez et dégagez et faites partie d'une bataille épique entre le recyclage et le mal.

Come volunteer at the Dump and run and be part of an epic battle between recycling and evil.

For the 6th year in a row, uOttawa is the Canadian Champion of RecycleMania…. and we couldn’t do any of it without our volunteers and incredible staff

Run around the campus like a garbage ninjas, collecting recyclables and putting them in the right place... I mean how else would you want to spend your Thursdays?

I always feel guilty when I make my students do data entry. So I alleviate my guilt by giving them cupcakes from the campus Farmer's Market. That makes everything better right?

#Office of Campus Sustainability #uOttawa #cupcake

This summer we experimented with creating mobile community garden plots on campus. We wanted to re-purpose some barrels in order to reduce environmental impacts. Here is an example of mobile pollinator gardens we created and which could be used anywhere on campus to increase pollination activity.

Fun and sustainable fashion for the broke student

Have you ever gone on a shopping spree, and no matter how great the pieces you bought looked on you, you couldn't shake the feeling of guilt for having spent too much cash? Well I have a solution for all you shopaholics out there who don’t have the dough to support your favourite hobby: a free store shopping spree! I recently had time to go down to the store and rummage through all of the racks; I found some amazing treasures that have become staple pieces for my fall wardrobe! Here are a few examples of things I have picked up.

http://www.sustainable.uottawa.ca/freestore.html

~photos by uOttawa student Eleni Levreault

#uOttawa #student #alternative conomy #free store

Every once and a while I have to present some of our sustainability programs to a class. I like to end off with slides that I think might evoke some kind of emotional reaction or something that makes them want to strive. Tonight I am ending of with the poem from the Grey. I am mixing it with a photo I took a few years ago when I was biking to work on a particularly horrid winter day. Sometimes you have to love doing the hard things in life simply because they are hard. If you don't, you will never find a reason to do the things we need to do.

~jonathan rausseo