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Day Without Lights on Wednesday, November 13th, at the Champlain College -Lennoxville

 

Monday, November 11th– SHERBROOKE - Champlain College -Lennoxville is pleased to announce that a “Day Without Lights” will take place on Wednesday,November 13th, at the College from 8:00 a.m. until 16:00p.m. The “Day Without Lights” is an environmental project organized by students from the Green Champlain committee.

The “Day Without Lights” is a day, or period of time, when unnecessary lights will be turned off throughout the College, reducing our electricity consumption. The objective of the event is to raise the awareness of people about what each average individual consumes and wastes. The members of the Green Champlain committee are the organizers and the responsible of this project.
Green Champlain is an environmental committee that is ran by dynamic students. The committee’s mission is to take actions that will positively impact the environment of the school and also of the whole campus. Throughout the years, Green Champlain has organized many projects such as collecting compost at school, creating a garden on the campus for students, screening documentaries and promoting educational activities.
Champlain-Lennoxville is proud to be one of the first institutions of higher education in Quebec to promote this event and wishes to be a leader in environmental projects. This event is one of several projects organized by students from the different committees of Champlain-Lennoxville that have for objective to improve the community and make a positive difference.

Champlain-Lennoxville is a public institution with a student population of approximately 1200 students. With excellent classrooms, laboratories, residences and athletic facilities, Champlain-Lennoxville offers to its students a variety of pre-university and technical programs leading to a college diploma (DEC).

Contact: Miguël Laroche-Marcotte, Arts, Languages and Communication.
Student representing Green Champlain
mlmarcotte97@gmail.com
819-993-3002
Champlain College-Lennoxville
2580 College Street
Sherbrooke, QC J1M 2K3