What is an Éco-quartier?

The history of our Éco-quartier

January 13, 2012
Our local sustainable development plan for Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Ten (10) actions being taken by the éco-quartier
1. Participate in the project planned to green the most problematic urban heat islands in our borough.
2. Give owners of shoreline properties, especially near Gouin Boulevard, incentives to green their property walls.
3. Educate and encourage borough citizens to take part in urban agriculture.
4. Promote urban agriculture in schoolyards, with the goal being the planting of a new vegetable garden every 2 years.
5. Participate in awareness campaigns for conserving potable water by organising two activities per year.
6. Educate and convince citizens to ecologically manage their rain water (ex: by using rain barrels to collect rain water).
7. Participate in the distribution of home composters with a goal of distributing 100 per year.
8. Continue holding drop-offs, and increase the quantity of household hazardous waste being collected.
9. Educate the public on the benefits of trees in an urban environment and distribute seedlings of trees indigenous to our region.
10. Pursue and expand the public shoreline cleanup program.

December 9, 2011
Closed during the holidays
The éco-quartier will be closed during the holidays from December 19 until January 8 inclusively. See you next year!

Christmas tree collection
There will be two days for the collection of Christmas trees, Wednesdays the 4 and 11 of January, 2012. Trees must be placed at the curb early in the morning on collection days.

December 2, 2011

Nativity Crèche made out of corks

Happy Holidays!!!!
We would like to wish you a very happy holiday season. Please take a moment to view our Ecological holidays flyer, it contains tips on how to have a more eco-friendly holiday season.

Events at the Biosphere
The biosphere has organised a couple of events throughout the holiday season to inform visitors on how to celebrate in an eco-friendly manner. We invite you to check the schedule of events on their website and participate in as many as possible.

Arts and Crafts with Corks
Two classes of students from Lalande elementary visited the éco-quartier on November 22nd to participate in an arts and crafts workshop where they were taught about reusing cork in art projects.





November 16, 2011
Green Residue Collection
The last green residue collection will take place on Wednesday November 23rd, Pierrefonds-Roxboro citizens are invited to come by our office for a couple of free transparent bags to help with this collection.

Petition: The state of urban agriculture in Montreal
The "Groupe de Travail en Agriculture" (GTAU) announced yesterday that 25 082 Montrealers signed their petition requesting a public consultation on the state of urban agriculture in Montreal. We would like to thank all those that participated in this petition.

October 27, 2011
Petition: The state of urban agriculture in Montreal
The éco-quartier is solliciting citizens to come sign a petition on the state of urban agriculture in montreal. Please print the Petition form, fill it out, sign it and invite your friends and colleagues to do so as well. Please ensure that you bring the form in to the éco-quartier by november 7th. If you would just like to sign the petition, please come by the éco-quartier during our opening hours.

October 13, 2011
Public Consultation : Biomethanisation of Compost
There are a couple of upcoming public consultations on the biomethanisation of compost about which citizens should stay informed. More information
Information Sessions
Dorval - November 9, 2011 at 7:00PM
at the Sarto-Desnoyers Community Centre
1335, Chemin Bord-du-Lac, Dorval
Lasalle - Novembre 14, 2011 at 7:00PM
at Restaurant Il Gabbiano
1550, Rue Lapierre, Lasalle

3RV Workshop
A 5@7 Workhop will be available at the éco-quartier Wednesday October 19 on the subject of reducing your household waste and reusing common objects and materials. For housekeepers, homemakers and their families living in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Remember that reducing, reusing, recycling and valorising are also good ways to save money. Please confirm your presence by telephone or by e-mail. Flower bulbs will be given out to all participants of this evening event.

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (GCSC)
We would like to thank all the participants that took place in this year's shoreline cleanup. We had 62 enthousiastic and hard working volunteers this year and picked up a ton of grabage!





August 31, 2011
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (GCSC)
The éco-quartier Pierrefonds-Roxboro and SOS Planète will again be organising the cleanup of the Rivière-à-l'Orme on Saturday September 24, 2011 from 10AM to 2PM, if you would like to take part, please contact us and let us know, you can also sign up for the event on the GCSC website.

July 14, 2011
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) drop-off
Saturday July 30, 2011 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 13795 Boulevard de Pierrefonds in the fire station's parking lot.
The green patrol in collaboration with the éco-quartier Pierrefonds-Roxboro, GEEP (Global Electric Electronic Processing), the CRE of Montreal and the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, invite you to bring your "portable" (no larger than one square foot) ICT waste to be recycled.
Larger objects must be brought to an ecocentre.
Don't forget that ICTs are considered hazardous waste and should never be put out with your regular garbage pickup.






Environmental awareness day at Cap St-Jacques beach
Sunday July 17 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Cap St-Jacques beach the éco-quartier Pierrefonds-Roxboro and the West Island Green Patrol will be participating in the annual Family day.

June 21, 2011
The Green Patrol 2011
We would like to welcome and introduce Joany and Skander, our two green patrollers for this summer; they will be patrolling our borough from June 4th until August 5th. Their goal is to spread the word about environmental solutions to challenges regarding water usage, household hazardous waste and ecologically friendly gardening, amongst many other topics.






St-Jean and Canada Day
Please take note of changes to the éco-quartier's schedule for the next few weeks, we will be closed on June 24th and 25th and on July 1st and 2nd, we will be open on Monday June 27th and on Monday July 4th from 10am to 3pm. The rest of the schedule remains as usual.

The Yellow Pages
With the ubiquity of the internet, many people no longer refer to the yellow pages reference that is delivered to homes and offices every year. If you are one of those people that would no longer like to have the yellow pages delivered to your door, you can opt out on their unsubscribe website. For more information you can read their press release.

May 26, 2011
Important upcoming event: The Pierrefonds-Roxboro Ecological gardening day will take place rain or shine, on Saturday, June 4, 2011, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., at Riverdale high school-park, 5060 boulevard des Sources. Annuals, perennials, compost, wood chips, tree seedlings and vegetable plants for kids will be distributed free of charge, with proof of residency (while quantities last). See the poster and pictures below for further information.






May 17, 2011
The Blue Patrol 2011
The blue patrol is our water awareness team that informs the public on water consumption and conservation recently began their season which spans from May 14th until June 4th throughout the West Island.
The cities and boroughs in which they will be informing citizens are Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Ste-Geneviève-Île Bizard, Kirkland, Beaconsfield, Dorval, Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Pointe-Claire.
The Patrol will be visiting neighbourhoods that have more evident water concerns, they will do mini water-audits in some public institutions, they will be doing some door to door awareness visits and setup kiosks to promote water conservation and rain barrels to citizens across the West Island.
We wish the blue patrol a great awareness season!





We would like to thank all the volunteers that participated in our large clean-up on Rue Commercial Centre in Roxboro and on Gouin Boulevard, on Saturday April 30th, we would especially like to thank the 803 North Shore Sabre Squadron Air Cadets and CJAD Radio Station for their support.




April 26, 2011
SOS Planète is pleased to invite you to its Annual General Assembly 2010. The assembly will take place on May 5th 2011 at 7:30PM at the Coop du Grand Orme (99 Ste-Anne street, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue). See the invitation for more info

Earth Day 2011
The éco-quartier will be closed from Friday April 22 to Monday April 25 inclusively for Easter weekend.

Coming up: April 30, 2011 - The éco-quartier Pierrefonds-Roxboro will be organising a large clean-up on Rue Commercial Centre in Roxboro and on Gouin Boulevard, on Saturday April 30th from 10AM until 3PM. Many prizes and gifts will be raffled off to participants, beverages and sandwiches will be available to all. Please confirm your plans to attend.

We are looking for candidates to work with us this summer as blue patrollers and/or green patrollers or as student gardeners. If you are interested please read the job descriptions for the blue patrol and the green patrol and send your CV to: ecoquartier.pfds.rox@gmail.com.

March 31, 2011
Our kiosks for international water day were a huge success. We distributed more than 500 flyers and many people showed a lot of interest in our star water conservation products, notably the garden rain meters, toilet tank banks, and shower coaches.




March 22, 2011
HAPPY WORLD WATER DAY
Come see us at our water conservation kiosks this week at Metro (3801 boul St-Charles) on wednesday March 23 from 3pm to 6pm and at Super C (11851 boul Pierrefonds) on Saturday March 26 from 10am to 2pm. We will be offering tips and tricks on how to reduce your potable water wastage as well as showing off our kits containing hard to find products that can help you reduce your water wastage.




No Flyers Sticker
The "No flyers Stickers" are now available at our office, come get yours for free.

February 25, 2011
Cleanliness
If you are interested in organising a public cleanup in your neighbourhood, school, park or another similar location, please contact us, we would be happy to support you in this cause.

Greening
If you enjoy gardening and fresh vegetables, call us, you could benefit from space to garden and culitivate vegetables in our garden, for you and for the community.

Organic Vegetable Baskets
Reserve your organic vegetable basket now! Contact D3 Pierres farms to make your reservation. www.d3pierres.com

Vermicomposters
Vermicomposting kits that are "ready to use" are now available at the éco-quartier, contact us to order one.




January 4, 2011
Natural Christmas tree collection: Trees must be placed close to the street between 8PM the night before and 7AM the day of the collection (Wednesdays january 5th and 12th). To ensure Pickup, trees must be free of all decorations. You can also bring trees to the chalet at one of our parks. They will be used around the rinks to protect skaters from the wind.

December 22, 2010
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
The éco-quartier will be closed from Friday December 24th until Monday January 3rd inclusively.
Recycling pickup will take place as usual during the holiday season. Please be patient as pickup times may vary.
The Christmas tree pickup will take place Wednesdays January 5th and 12th, 2011.

November 15, 2010
If you are a business in the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro that does not yet have a recycling program, we invite you to contact RCI Environnement at 514-352-2025, they can set you up with a regular recycling pickup that satisfies your needs.
The éco-quartier is looking for volunteers to help in making cork boards on Wednesday evenings and Saturdays during our opening hours. If you like doing arts and crafts and are interested in helping out, please contact us.