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​ A group of individuals from the greater Sackville community and Mount Allison University are organizing an event in response to Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything, and her presentation at Mount Allison University earlier this winter. Members of groups from the environmental, agricultural, construction, forestry, ecological, cultural, educational, indigenous, business, and heritage parts of our … Continue reading Collaborative Climate Change Action Workshop April 2, 2016

ESD Programme Strategic Framework Education for Sustainable Development Programme The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) serves the international community by offering valuable and innovative policy oriented solutions to sustainability challenges. In response to the UN resolution on the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD: 2005-2014), UNU-IAS launched the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Programme with … Continue reading ESD Programme Strategic Framework

RCE-Tantramar To Present at the RCE Conference of the Americas, Grand Rapids, Michigan August 9-12, 2015 An RCE stands for a Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development and it may be one of the cooler things many of us have never heard of. It's a network of organizations acknowledged by the United … Continue reading RCE Conference of the Americas 2015

Climate Change Adaptation Challenges Facing New Brunswick Coastal Communities: A Review of the Problems and a Synthesis of Solutions Suggested by Regional Adaptation Research David J. Lieske, Lori Ann Roness, Emily A. Phillips, Michael J. Fox Abstract Through a detailed examination of research conducted in Sackville, New Brunswick, this study synthesizes the findings of a … Continue reading Partners Publish on Climate Change and Coastal NB Communities

The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment awarded the Tantramar Climate Change Adaptation Collaborative a 2015 Sustainable Communities Award for its outstanding contribution to the promotion of sustainability within the region.  The Tantramar Climate Change Adaptation Collaborative was recognized in particular for enhancing opportunities for research, networking, and coordination of climate change adaptation strategies.  RCE Tantramar, in connection with … Continue reading Sustainable Communities Award from the Gulf of Maine Council

During the summer of 2013 the Regional Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Development – Tantramar conducted a pilot project to plant rain gardens in Sackville, New Brunswick and determine their effectiveness in managing storm water. The project was made possible with funding from the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund (ETF). The rain garden pilot project … Continue reading Rain Gardens in Sackville

Check out this story highlighting Sackville's Place Matters Institute and one of its facilitators, Erik Fraser, a graduate student at Oxford University.  RCE Tantramar communication intern, Trevor Donald, focuses on the collaboration between Fraser and the RCE in this week's Sackville Tribune Post: The Green Backpack - Erik Fraser and the Sackville Place Matters Institute

  Place Matters Institute: Sackville as a Learning Community To be delivered intensively during the week of April 29 - May 3, 2013. Coordinators: Erik Fraser (Oxford University) and Michael Fox (RCE Tantramar) This intensive interdisciplinary seminar course will address place-conscious teaching and learning pedagogies.  It will explore the various ways in which learning about … Continue reading RCE Tantramar Offers Place Matters Institute: Sackville as a Learning Community

As part of Climate Change Week 2013, representatives from Colchester-Cumberland Wind Field Inc. (http://www.ccwf.ca/), visited Sackville to share their successful model for local, green power generation using wind turbines and cleaner transportation using electric vehicles.  Here are some Mount Allison University students checking out the electric cars!

New Mount Allison class focuses on community adaptation to climate change! Mount Allison University news reports: 2013-03-11 09:47:23 Students gearing up for Climate Change Awareness Week in the Tantramar Region SACKVILLE, NB — Mount Allison students are taking their learning outside the classroom and into the community with a new class devoted to climate change … Continue reading New Mount Allison Class Focuses on Community Adaptation to Climate Change

RCE Tantramar is working with a number of local partners to organize a "Climate Change Week" in mid March 2013. This week will raise awareness about the potential impacts of climate change in Tantramar, a coastal region bordered by the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait.EOS Eco-Energy, the Mount Allison University course "Community Adaptation … Continue reading RCE Tantramar Collaborates on Climate Change Week

Working directly with local business leaders, the Sustainable Sackville Steering Committee has initiated an information campaign aimed at increasing participation in the wet/dry recycling program across our community. As committee members reviewed the Sustainable Sackville Plan this past summer, they decided to focus their implementation efforts on several priority projects and one very urgent need … Continue reading Business Leadership in Sackville’s Recycling Program!

SappyFest is usually credited for its nationally-recognised musical headlines, which have included the likes of Cold Speck, Timbre Timber, Owen Pallett, and Arcade Fire. This year, however, Sackville NB's well-known-and-adored independent music festival added to its growing standing as one of the country's best music fests. In partnership with the Town of Sackville, Westmorland-Albert Waste Management, … Continue reading Record waste diverted from landfill: Sackville

RCE Tantramar was featured this week in Moncton's daily paper, The Times & Transcript. On Wednesday, RCE chair Michael Fox and intern Rob Burroughs spoke with Julia Whalen, a reporter from the T&T, about the RCE and the work that we're doing. The article, published Friday August 24, can be found below. Times & Transcript Article … Continue reading RCE Tantramar featured in Moncton Times & Transcript

Teachers are trying something new in classrooms at Moncton High in attempts to re-engage high school students and combat a perceived "sharp increase in apathy". MTA Professor Mike Fox, also a co-sponsor of RCE Tantramar's bid to the United Nations University, is an expert in education for sustainable development (ESD) -- the idea that students … Continue reading ESD featured in Maritime Magazine

This year at SappyFest volunteers working for the recycling crew made a concerted effort to facilitate the sorting of garbage into blue and green trash bags, following Westmorland Albert’s wet/dry system.  Sackville’s Public Works supplied two dumpsters, one for green/wet and the other for blue/dry.  Mary from the Westmorland Albert Corporation set up a booth … Continue reading SappyFest Goes Green