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 Concordia University 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 Montreal, 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