Rooftop garden

This week, I want you to discover the rooftop gardening project.
An amazing group of volunteers is creating green spaces just above our heads. They use alternative agricultural techniques from around the world. They have combined hydroponics, permaculture and organic gardening principles to develop soil-less growing techniques that are ecologically sustainable, affordable and light-weight enough to be used on rooftops, balconies, walls and other small urban spaces.

Their demonstration gardens are growing on the top of UQAM and on the roof of Santropol Roulant, a restaurant located on St-Urbain Street in Montreal. The vegetables are given to elderly persons losing their autonomy.

If you are interested in building a healthy community in your neighbourhood, learning ecological gardening techniques or even taking yoga classes in the rooftop gardens, consult the Rooftop Gardens website.

National Environmental Exhibition in the Old Port

Hi everybody!

I’m back in The World of Flowers for the summer :-)

Today, I’d like to talk about the first National Environmental Exhibition (NEE) held this week-end, June 1st to 4, 2006 in Montreal Old Port. The work COOP Terre Nouvelle organised this event. Local businesses displayed their ecological products and services. Non-profit organisms and ecological groups were there to inform and educate public about the following topics:

• Education, health and awareness
• Water, air and earth
• Waste, recycling, composting
• Bio-agriculture, fair trade, simple living
• Clean and renewable energies
• Eco-construction and eco-villages
• Eco-tourism and recreation
• Transport, technology, science
• Craft, fashion and art

Did you visit the exhibition? Post your comments right here, and tell us what you would like to see in the next edition.

For more information regarding the National Evironmental
Exhibition, consult one of the following web sites:
Environment Experts
Environment Exhibition