SUSTAINABILITY Organizations Present MIXER 2021 People’s Potato

John Molson Sustainable Enterprise Committee (JSEC)

Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability (LCDS)

CEED Concordia

Concordia University’s Center for Creative Reuse (CUCCR)

Hive Café Solidarity Cooperative

Zero Waste Concordia

Concordia Precious Plastics Project (CP3)

The Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)

FoodCycle

Office of Sustainability (OOS) & The Sustainability Ambassadors Program (SAP)

Sustainable Concordia (SC)

Concordia Food Coalition (CFC) SUSTAINABILITY MIXER 2021 What is the Sustainability Mixer? The Sustainability Mixer is a community introduction As sustainability related organizations, & building themed event. It was born out of wanting to and more specifically as settlers and provide students & community members a space to get to non-Indigenous members of the organizing know the sustainability related organizations working at committee, we recognize that while we work Concordia, meet other students, and just hang out in a to pull sustainability away from a white space together. Groups directly active in the sustainable and environmentally dominated approach, this community at Concordia are present to chat about their is a narrative that continues to dominate work and open space for students to learn more, to know understandings of sustainability. how to get informed & involved, network, and talk about We are working to figure out how we can all the different sustainable goings-on at Concordia. hold each other and those in our community accountable to pulling sustainability towards Acknowledgement of land and relationship to community & an intersectional understanding and practice. sustainability: For us planning this mixer, we recognize that the We, the organizing committee, acknowledge that while organizations represented at this mixer do not this event is taking place virtually, it nevertheless reflect the diversity of organizations working is occurring on stolen lands respective to the home of towards sustaining the Concordia community and the Concordia community. Tiohtia:ke, colonially known as beyond in just and equitable ways. The work, of Montréal, is unceded, meaning never surrendered Indigenous course, is on us as organizers directly involved lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the in the sustainability community at Concordia to custodians of the lands and waters on which Concordia help push an anti-oppressive lens and hold each sits, and Tiohtià:ke is historically known as a gathering other accountable in our unlearning, learning, place for many Indigenous Nations, today being home to a and building of relationships that will allow diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. for a diversity of groups to be present in the Colonization, and the ongoing resistance to it, must future, and to feel safe being present. be at the forefront of understanding and working within This is a messy process that we have and our local context, as we strive to understand our place in will continue to stumble through, and we thank the systems of colonialism, seeking to ensure we are not you for struggling with us, whether directly or perpetuating systems of oppression while we organize for indirectly. It’s in this acknowledgement that sustainable communities, for a sustainable world beyond we take a small but critical step in helping to colonialism. build a better future. Schedule

6:30 – 7:00pm Featured Artist Opening Musical A natural-born vocalist, soul singer & songwriter Clerel Performance: featuring Clerel nurtured his taste for melody in his coastal hometown of Douala, Cameroon, where he grew up listening to music from his parents’ 7:00pm – 7:40pm record collection, which ranged from church hymns and afrobeat Organization Shuffle: to French chanson. As a child, he developed a habit of singing his favorite Each organization has songs to himself as a way to “listen” to them whenever he desired, 3-5 minutes to present an an exercise that helped hone his signature smooth tone. Clerel overview of their group, how has appeared as a contestant on nationally broadcast reality folx can get involved, and talent show La Voix, as well as a featured act in the iconic Festival contact information International de Jazz de Montréal. Listeners from all over the world continue to fall in love with the young musician’s soulful universe 7:40pm – 8:30pm (tentatively) and effortlessly elegant esthetic. Mixer! Lobby: A welcome, general inquiry, and redirecting space Breakout Rooms: Type 1: Each organization in their own breakout room, attendees can join and chat more with a group Type 2: Breakout Room for dance party ^^

Linktree for more info & links for listening (link) People’s Potato John Molson Sustainable Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability (LCDS) The People’s Potato is a vegan Enterprise Committee Opened in 2002, the LCDS was founded by an inter-disciplinary soup kitchen at Concordia (JSEC) group of professors drawn from science, social science and University - a student initiated humanities departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. From project that was founded in JSEC is a group of the outset the College’s main purpose was to provide a coherent 1999 in order to address student undergraduates that address poverty and the lack of affordable the integration of sustainability program of interdisciplinary courses on the Loyola campus food options on campus. As a in business practices. We on a central issue of our time, specifically the challenges and non-profit, worker-run collective, build and inspire the future opportunities of diversity. the People’s Potato is mandated sustainable leaders of to: tomorrow. Why? Because Today, the LCDS is an interdisciplinary honours college at Provide quality vegetarian food we believe this is what the and home of the Loyola Sustainability to Concordia students and business world needs today. Research Centre. They offer a 24-credit Minor in Diversity and the community members. Being an official subsidiary Contemporary World, a 27-credit Minor in Sustainability Studies, of CASA, JSEC delivers several a 15-credit Sustainability Studies Elective Group, and a 9-credit Offer an anti-capitalist alternative Membership Program. These programs can be paired with most to corporate food systems on services that look to give undergraduate Major, Specialization, and Honours programs campus. students the platform to learn Offer education with respect to and practice sustainable offered in the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Faculty of Fine Arts, food politics, food preparation business practices. With and the John Molson School of Business. and social justice issues. the ultimate vision to have Provide an accessible anti- sustainability so embedded Website: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/loyola-college-diversity- oppressive community space. in global systems that JSEC sustainability.html Mobilize for active involvement in is rendered obsolete, JSEC Email: [email protected] environmental and social justice moves to demonstrate how Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/103085103090401 movements. sustainable concepts can be Support the work of social-justice- applied to business operations, oriented community events and projects. while also showing how to leverage business frameworks Offer all services for free or on a to realize sustainable ideas. pay-what-you-can basis. Website: http://www.jsecjmsb. Website: www.peoplespotato.com ca/ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Facebook: @peoplespotato Facebook: @jsecjmsb Instagram: @thepeoplespotato Instagram: @jsecjmsb CEED Concordia Hive Café Solidarity Zero Waste Concordia CEED Concordia is a fee-levy association of Concordia University Cooperative At Zero Waste Concordia, our and a non-profit organization operating in , Canada The mission of the Hive Café mission is to divert and reduce and Gulu, Uganda. We are an organization dedicated to social Co-op is to be a model as much waste on campus justice, community empowerment, and positive change by food system at Concordia away from landfill, and instead supporting youth in our communities. CEED offers Concordia and University that provides food reduce, reuse, recycle and rot. Ugandan students an opportunity to contribute to sustainable through sustainable practices Since the university is closed community projects via our internship programs between and empowers the student because of the COVID-19 Canada, Uganda and more recently Colombia and West Africa. community. pandemic, we have now Every year, approximately 25-30 youth from both communities adapted our efforts to focus on become involved with our program through internships, academic The Hive Café Co-op is a the waste created at the homes initiatives, and various positions within our organization. We are Solidarity Cooperative, which of our community, so that we working to shape better communities and future leaders for a means that the membership can achieve our mission when better tomorrow. is composed of three distinct the university reopens. membership categories; user- Website: https://ceedconcordia.org/en/home/ members, worker-members, Committed to expanding a Email: [email protected] and support or community- culture and mission of Zero Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CEEDconcordia/ member. The vision of the Hive Waste throughout Concordia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceedconcordia/?hl=en is the creation of accessible and beyond, Zero Waste Twitter https://twitter.com/CEEDConcordia food systems that are socially, Concordia has helped economically, as well as support the development and environmentally regenerative operating of many on campus that are operated locally and sustainability initiatives, tonight democratically. we will highlight a few. If you Concordia University’s Center for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) are interested in starting your own initiative, please get in CUCCR is dedicated to diverting materials from inside Website: http://hivecafe.ca/ touch. Concordia’s waste-stream and offering them to the general Email: cafe.hivecafecoop@ community free of cost. Our spaces currently feature a variety of gmail.com Contact info material storage and displays that showcase the diverse materials Facebook: @HiveCafeCoop Website: https://www.concordia. coming out of offices, departments, studios, and labs on our Instagram: @hivecafecoop ca/about/sustainability/ campus. A variety of wood, glass, metal, fibers, office supplies, sustainability-initiatives/zero- plastics, paper, tools and equipment, and arts & crafts supplies fill waste.html the shelves. Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.cuccr.ca/ Facebook: Email: [email protected] @zerowasteconcordia Facebook: @CUCCR Instagram: Instagram: @cuccr @zerowasteconcordia Twitter: @concordiazero Concordia Precious Plastics The Sustainability Action FoodCycle Project (CP3) Fund (SAF) Food Cycle is focused on eliminating food waste/surplus from restaurants, grocery stores and events within and outside Our mission is to address The SAF is a student run fee of Concordia. Food surplus is also recycled through these the plastic crisis by creating levy group at Concordia initiatives by working with internal groups such as The Hive 3D printing filament, and University with the mission Cafe, People’s Potato, Concordia’s Food Coalition, Home-Cooked eco-friendly items through of building an inclusive Concordia and more. Leftover edible food items are then repurposing Concordia culture of sustainability at donated to students, faculty and staff through food sharing University’s plastic waste for the Concordia University by platforms and communal fridges. Larger portions are donated communities of Montreal. We enabling, supporting, and to partnering initiatives such as local shelters in and around believe it is our duty to ensure financing projects that tackle the Montreal area such as La Tablée des Chefs’ diverting food the quantity of plastic used is interconnected environmental, waste program. minimized in our community. social, and economic issues. The plastic crisis we are in The majority of funding goes Email: [email protected] requires urgent actions. CP3 to support projects to develop Facebook: @ConcordiaFoodCycle will be addressing the United sustainable infrastructure, Nations SDGs #12, and 13. urban agriculture, community- building, and education Website: https://www. surrounding environmental cp3montreal.com/ and community issues, with Email: cp3concordia@gmail. the long-term goal of inspiring com and developing a culture of Facebook: @CP3Concordia sustainability at Concordia Instagram: @cp3concordia University. Youtube: https://www. youtube.com/channel/ Website: https://www. UC98C0JUGCQ3z3XzFNlSACyw safconcordia.ca/ Twitter: @cp3concordia Email: executivedirector@ SUSTAINABILITY safconcordia.ca Facebook: @safconcordia Instagram: @safconcordia Twitter: @SAF_Concordia MIXER 2021 Office of Sustainability (OOS) & The Sustainability Sustainable Concordia (SC) Ambassadors Program (SAP) A student-led fee levy • Encourage and take group at Concordia University, initiative in activism to At Concordia, the OOS upholds the University’s Sustainability SC is a resource initiative address the climate crisis. Policy and promotes best practices in ecological, economic, that takes action to reform, • Build and deepen our and social sustainability. The OOS is the university’s central transform, and revolutionize connections with local and sustainability unit, complemented by a network of positions unjust systems contributing to global communities to focused on sustainability within other university units and climate crisis by connecting foster resilient networks. departments. Working together as Concordia’s Sustainability students, faculty, administration, Team, they evaluate and provide advice on how to improve and the wider community. SC Website: https:// the University’s performance towards its sustainability goals envisions a university which sustainableconcordia.ca/ through the provision and implementation of metrics, tools, teaches and demonstrates Email: internal@ training and processes. sustainability principles of sustainableconcordia.ca ecological health, social Facebook: Working in collaboration with the OOS and Sustainable justice, and economic equality. @SustainableConcordia Concordia, the SAP aims to increase sustainability awareness Envisioning a university which Instagram: on campus and support others to develop more sustainable is run non-hierarchically by @sustainable_concordia behaviours. The SAP does this by offering volunteer students, staff, faculty, and Twitter: opportunities for students of all disciplines, training provided administration in a process @sustainableconu by the Concordia Sustainability Team, and ongoing based on transparency and educational opportunities offered throughout the year. While maximum participation, SC on-campus volunteer opportunities through the program is guided by five strategic Sustainable are postponed until further notice due to the covid-19 health directions involving: Concordia crisis, the SAP is still offering an in-depth series of training opportunities during the fall and winter semester, as well as • Act as an accessible other programming and volunteering opportunities that the community resource that SAP is working hard to develop and adapt. provides opportunities for skill sharing and education. • Strive for organizational OOS Contact info SAP Contact info excellence in a way that is Website: https://www. Website: responsive to intersectional concordia.ca/campus- http://concordia.ca/ssap realities. life/safety/sustainability. Email: • Practice advocacy with html sustainabilityambassadors@ communities through Email: sustainability@ concordia.ca direct action involving concordia.ca the Concordia University Administration and decision makers who work within unjust systems. Concordia Food Coalition Other Concordia and community (CFC) related groups to check out The CFC is a student run research in urban farming fee levy group at Concordia techniques, and other parts As we mentioned in our acknowledgement of our University concerned about of the food-cycle relationship to community & sustainability, there are numerous the economic, ecological, and organizations working towards sustaining the Concordia, and social implications of the food Website: http://www. wider Tiohtia:ke (Montréal) community and beyond, in just and system at Concordia University. concordiafoodcoalition.com/ equitable ways. Way too many organizations doing amazing With the aim of fostering a Email: concordiafoodcoalition@ work to list here - but we’ll do our best to provide a start! community-centered food gmail.com system that will begin at Facebook: Indigenous Directions: Led by the Indigenous Directions Concordia University, but that @concordiafoodcoalitionpage Leadership Council, Indigenous Directions is the movement to will be built with expansion in Instagram: decolonize and Indigenize the University. mind, the CFC brings together @concordiafoodcoalition students, faculty and staff Twitter: @cufoodcoalition Otsenhákta Student Centre: An on-campus resource for First to promote and facilitate a Nations, Inuit and Métis students, the Centre offers programming transition to a more sustainable that focuses on academics, culture and community, providing food system in collaboration support to help students succeed and achieve their highest with organizations at academic potential by working with them to make the most of Concordia and beyond. the many resources available at the university. Ultimately, the CFC envisions a community food system at Black Student Union at Concordia (non-profit): Concordia Concordia University that is: students aiming to empower black youth while educating & • Outside of the pursuit of spreading awareness about the African diaspora. private financial profit • Constituted and grounded Black Perspectives Office: The Black Perspectives Office resources, in inclusivity & cooperation supports, connects, and advocates for Black communities, (not hierarchy & perspectives, initiatives, and scholarship at Concordia University. competition) • Structured in a way that : the CSU’s mission is to serve students, innovates on successful defend their rights, and act as their highest representative body alternative models at Concordia. • Committed to being affordable, nutritious, and Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) Concordia (fee- sensitive to cultural needs levy group): a resource centre for student and community research • Approaches food and organizing. QPIRG strives to raise awareness and support sovereignty/security from a grassroots activism around diverse social and environmental critical perspective issues, with work that is rooted in an anti-oppression analysis • Built to apply and integrate & practice. Other Concordia and community related groups to check out (cont’d)

The Centre for Gender Advocacy (fee-levy Cinema Politica (fee-levy group) : A top of the Hall building, it provides a group): Mandated to promote gender Montreal-based non-profit network of gorgeous atrium for students to relax, equality and empowerment particularly community and campus locals that screen work, and socialize, as well as multiple as it relates to marginalized communities, independent political film and video by rooms housing projects ranging from a the Centre works to promote gender self- Canadian and international artists. Tea Garden, to a full scale Aquaponics determination, bodily sovereignty, and system. Their annual seedling sale is a self-love. CJLO (fee-levy group): Formed in 1998, mainstay of Montreal’s urban farmers, and CJLO is Concordia University’s one and they also run an annual City Farm School, Concordia Community Solidarity Co- only radio station. 100% non-profit, and which offers participants an intensive Operative Bookstore (fee-levy group): The run almost entirely by volunteers, the 8 month internship and workshops in Co-op Bookstore is a long-time Concordia station is located in the heart of the Urban Farming in Montreal. mainstay, and an incredible resource for Loyola campus in the NDG borough of students on campus and members of Montreal. Frigo Vert (fee-levy group): Founded on the wider-Montreal community. Through a Cooperative business model, the Frigo a non-profit co-operative model, the Queer Concordia (fee-levy group): An strives to offer high-quality organic food Bookstore is able to provide low prices on campus resource centre for queer, to students and the whole Montreal and professional services to all who visit lesbian, gay, trans, two-spirited, bisexual, community at prices that are accessible it. asexual, intersex, questioning, and allies. to all . Beyond good food at good prices, It is based on a belief in the diversity of the Frigo also strives to advance core The Refugee Centre (fee-levy group): communities and supporting safer sex principles of social justice, by opposing Working to provide a sustainable practices. systemic forms of violence that undermine structure of integration for refugees and local communities and their food security. immigrants in Canada by offering support Concordia University Television (CUTV) for students and their families as well as (fee-levy group): A Campus/Community Newspaper (fee-levy group): the Montreal community as a whole. TV & video production studio that The Link is an independent, student-run, provides an essential service to those in not-for-profit newspaper at Concordia Art Matters (fee-levy group): A student-run the Concordia & Montreal communities. University. It aims to publish stories not festival that showcases the diversity of From live-streaming events to producing usually covered by mainstream media, Concordia University’s artistic community. original content, CUTV’s dedicated team with a focus on advocacy journalism. The festival promotes emerging talent of volunteers and staff produce & diffuse and provides students with professional original content. The Concordian (fee-levy group): The experiences by working alongside Concordian provides coverage of campus cultural institutions, galleries and artist- Concordia Greenhouse (fee-levy group): events, student politics, local news, sports, run centres in Montreal and beyond. Located in a rooftop greenhouse at the music, life, arts, and opinion pieces. Other Concordia and community related groups to check out (cont’d)

Concordia Student Nightline (fee-levy The Solidarity Economy Incubation Zone The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal: group): A non judgemental, confidential, (SEIZE): A member-based democratic Providing a safe environment where anonymous listening service run by organization and network, through women can begin to rebuild their lives. Concordia Students, for those in need of education, incubation and organizing, We offer support and frontline services to referrals, information, support, or just to our goal is building the democratic First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Aboriginal) chat. economy from the ground up, with a women and children to promote their focus on Concordia University and the empowerment and independence. Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC): Montreal ecosystem. SARC provides confidential and non- Stella: Stella’s primary mission is to improve judgmental support and services to The Office of Community Engagement quality of life and working conditions for Concordia University students, staff and (OCE): The OCE’s mandate is to develop female-identified sex workers, to educate faculty who have been affected by and support meaningful and mutually- the greater public on the different ways sexual violence. Through education and beneficial relationships between the that sex work happens as well as about raising awareness we are committed to university and the diverse communities our lived experiences as sex workers, so preventing sexual violence on campus of Montreal. that sex workers might also enjoy and and beyond. benefit from the same rights to safety Montreal Indigenous Community Network and security that are commonplace for The Multi-faith and Spirituality Centre: (the NETWORK): The NETWORK supports other people. A home on campus for all those who the ecosystem of individuals and groups wish to celebrate the human spirit in the committed to improving the quality Bâtiment 7 (B7): A non-profit organization widest sense of the word; we are open of life of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis born in 2009 in Pointe-Saint-Charles, B7 to all students whether spiritual, secular communities living in the has reappropriated a heritage industrial or religious. Our approach is pluralistic, area. Our members include community building, in order to convert it into accepting and energizing, and we & volunteers, nonprofit organizations, a factory of collective autonomy, an encourage students to live with integrity governments and institutions, and some accessible alternative gathering place and authenticity. businesses. bubbling with projects. . Rooted in the environment that gave it birth, open to The SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation Resilience Montreal: A non-profit day the world, B7 aspires to become an engine Concordia: Supports existing and shelter situated on the corner of Atwater of cultural, social, political, economic and emerging social transformation initiatives and Sainte Catherine, offering food, a environmental transformation. that unite the efforts of Concordians and place to sleep, clean clothes, and support their partners with the goal of creating to anyone in need. Solidarity Across Borders: A migrant justice a more just, inclusive, and broadly network based in Montreal, active since prosperous Montreal. 2003. We are comprised of migrants and Other Concordia and community related groups to check out (cont’d) allies, and we organize together to support individuals and families who are confronting an unjust immigration and refugee system. We engage in popular education, support work, as well as political mobilizations, including demonstrations, pickets, delegations, and direct actions.

The Centre for Community Organizations (COCo): COCo is a charitable organization whose mission is to support the health and well-being of community organizations in Québec through supporting organizational development, offering training, disseminating resources, producing research, and strengthening links between nonprofit organizations. A closing thank you note

Thank you so much to the members of the hope this event was able to provide you with a organizing committee, involving Anna Timm-Bottos relaxing space to meet other students & members (CUCCR), Nora Fabre (CFC), Rebecca Black (SAF), of the Concordia community, and learn about Sebastián Di Poi (SAF), Amanda Loukatos (SC), the sustainable community and how you can get Duha Elmardi (SC), and Brett Cox (SC). Thank you involved. As well, shoutout to all students & for all the laughter, love & labor you put into community members who either were not able to organizing this years’ Sustainability Mixer. make it, or were not aware of the event. Sending our love to all students and community members Thank you so much to all the participating holding it down and trying to survive and organizations, and all the important work you thrive, both as individuals & as communities. do. Lastly, thank you, so much, to all those Thank you so much to Clerel, for your struggling for a sustainable world, in all the beautiful performance, and all the amazing work beautiful and intersectional ways that that you put out into the world. looks.

Thank you so much to all the attendees who were able to make it to this years’ mixer. We In love, rage, & solidarity...