Just over a year ago, HEPL established several “EcoTeams” teams dedicated to sustainability, across its seven campuses. This initiative reflects UNIgreen’s commitment to making our campuses greener and more socially responsible. They gather administrative and teaching staff, but also students who feel the need to share their sustainable spirit.
On 18th of November, those EcoTeams met at Campus La Reid for their first dedicated general assembly.
Exchanging best practices and participating in workshops to foster growth: the program for the first EcoTeams General Assembly brought together some thirty motivated individuals eager to develop sustainability on their campuses.
François Clarinval, from the HEPL Sustainability Unit, said
“The spirit of this assembly is to share, meet, and pool our actions and values. The driving force behind these actions is motivation and conviction!
For Annick Lapierre, Director-President, it’s also the perfect opportunity to prove the achievements of a sustainability-focused aspect of the strategic plan.
“We have performance requirements, and we’re managing to meet them, which is very important.
Proof of this is that, to get to La Reid, all the colleagues considered the possibility of… carpooling, as it’s not well served by public transport!
This exchange also allowed the different campuses to understand each other’s realities: promoting public transportation seems obvious at some point but is somewhat less so elsewhere. Waste sorting isn’t the same in each municipality covered by our campuses and can’t be organized in the same way everywhere. So many examples that demonstrate the diversity within HEPL and the challenge that lies ahead!
