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September 2008
Art at the Co-op, and Car Free Day!
Message to Members
Hello members, welcome back from your vacations, camping trips and back yards. We hope you had a wonderful summer!
We've been preparing for our Annual General Assembly, which takes place in the store Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6:30 p.m. Our AGAs are a great place to get a feel for what the Co-op is all about. Here, members get updated on Co-op initiatives, vote on motions, and can even run for a seat on our Board of Directors. For more information visit our website or drop by the store.
Look Up Gallery: You may have noticed a big empty wall looming above your heads when you're standing at the cash. We are happy to announce that we will be using this space to exhibit local artwork, starting this month with collages by Co-op worker and curator Paula Belina.
Green back-to-school @ the Co-op:
Wood & biodegradable pens, recycled pencils, refillable highlighters, recycled notebooks and notepads, stainless steel water bottles & lunch tins, recycled clipboards and cardboard binders!
Thanks to: Johanna Kratz, Gilles Rondeau (translation), Johanne Bouthillier (revision)
Events 
Please phone or visit the Co-op to sign up for these events. For more information visit our website.
SEP 17
Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m. (Co-op La Maison Verte)
Annual General Assembly
Members are invited to attend the Annual General Assembly of the Coopérative de solidarité en environnement La Maison Verte. To view the agenda and for more information please visit our website.
SEP 23
Tuesday, September 23, 7-9 p.m. (Co-op La Maison Verte)
Look Up Gallery - Vernissage & Workshop: Arrangement from the Scissor Tao
Works in acrylic and found-images by Paula Belina
www.liberatethemarvelous.blogspot.com. Join us to celebrate the opening of our new gallery space, and unleash your inner artist with a collage workshop animated by the artist (this workshop is by donation).
Prints available for $10. Leave your name, number, # of the collage you want and $10 at the cash for pick up between Sept. 30 & Oct. 2.
New Products
Early fall fashions from ÖOM Ethikwear including long and short-sleeve tops for men and women made from organic and/or fair trade cotton, and organic "onesies" for babies.
Biodegradable Moltex diapers
Member Specials
10% off of all biodegradable garbage bags
And our 10 % discount on all stainless steel water bottles continues until the end of the month!
Eco Logic
Reinventing the commute with the help of transportation management centres
French original by Axelle Casagrande, Communications Officer, Mobiligo (translation by Johanna Kratz)
Fed up with traffic, the continuously rising price of gas, increasing air pollution and your own inactivity? At Montreal's centres de gestion des déplacements (CGDs), that is, transportation management centres, we can help you.
We develop and implement viable alternatives to solo car travel, through programs like ALLÉGO, which offers concrete solutions for reducing solo car travel for commuters. Companies and institutions are offered a wide range of sustainable transportation solutions to encourage employees to find alternatives to single-driver vehicles. We support and advise you, step by step, while you implement the program. With options ranging from managing parking to public transit to carpooling to cycling and even walking, we help you take to the road ALLÉGO style!
There are many advantages to introducing sustainable transportation measures:
- For employees: less stress, more physical activity, less time spent commuting, less money spent on commuting;
- For employers: improved company or institutional image, fewer parking-related expenditures, improved accessibility to the worksite and therefore fewer employees reporting late or calling in sick, and improved employee retention;
- For the community: less congestion and fewer accidents, less noise, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and overall improvement in communities' quality of life.
Our programs are eligible for grants from the Quebec Department of Transport. For further information, feel free to contact one of our CGDs, depending on their areas of responsibility, at the addresses indicated below:
CGD Saint-Laurent (Saint-Laurent, West, Laval and North Shore)
www.destl.ca
Mobiligo (Côte-des-Neiges and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, vicinity and East)
www.mobiligo.ca
Voyagez Futé (Centre-Ville and vicinity, South Shore
www.voyagezfute.ca
"In Town, Without My Car" September 22
The sixth edition of "In Town, Without My Car!" will take place on Monday, September 22, 2008, closing one of the largest areas in North America to traffic. The purpose of this international event is to raise public awareness of the harmful effects of single-driver vehicles on the quality of city life and to push people to think about the behavioural changes required when it comes to urban travel. It is also an opportunity to encourage the public to discover alternative means of transportation to driving solo. Join the festivities!
Eco Logic is a place for members to write or suggest articles about environment or community-related subjects of all kinds. Email your ideas to newsletter@cooplamaisonverte.com
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