{"id":2082,"date":"2013-06-10T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2017-04-11T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:22:46","slug":"verdun-fish-coop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/verdun-fish-coop\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdun resident wins for fish coop idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verdun resident Guillaume Voyer is one step closer to his dreams of creating a new urban agriculture cooperative in Verdun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voyer\u2019s vision of raising fish such as perch and tilapia with greens in a recirculating system in the borough\u2019s greenhouse won a $5,000 scholarship from C\u00c9COSOL, the social economy branch of Caisses Desjardins du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenhouses have an enormous potential for transforming our borough into a centrepiece of urban agriculture,\u201d said Voyer. \u201cMy project is really at the embryonic stage, but interest is there.\u201d<\/p>\n

His idea is similar to what’s already happening at Concordia (http:\/\/concordiagreenhouseproject.wordpress.com\/projects\/aquaponics\/<\/a>) and in Milwaukee at Growing Power (http:\/\/www.growingpower.org\/aquaponics.htm<\/a>), Sweetwater (http:\/\/sweetwater-organic.com\/press<\/a>\u00a0and Central Greens (http:\/\/www.milwaukeeaquaponics.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Voyer won his scholarship during the sixth edition of the \u201c\u00c0 go, on change le monde!\u201d (http:\/\/agoonchangelemonde.qc.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u00c0 go, on change le monde\u00a0is a collaboration between the Institut du Nouveau Monde<\/i> (INM), CDEC, C\u00c9COSOL, LOJIQ and the Fondation Bombardier to encourage social economy entrepreneurship in Quebec. Some 200 projects were submitted from across the province with a total of $22,000 in cash and $3,000 in travel expenses going to nine winners.<\/p>\n

There were seven other winning Montreal projects in addition to Voyer\u2019s. They are: Le Petit march\u00e9 de l\u2019Est de Rosemont, a students\u2019 coop called \u201cUtile\u201d in the Latin Quarter, the Valoristes Coop, \u00a0a floating market on the St. Lawrence River, a mobile game to develop humanitarianism by Decode Global and immigrant language training for health sector workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verdun resident Guillaume Voyer is one step closer to his dreams of creating a new urban agriculture cooperative in Verdun. Voyer\u2019s vision of raising fish such as perch and tilapia with greens in a recirculating system in the borough\u2019s greenhouse won a $5,000 scholarship from C\u00c9COSOL, the social economy branch of Caisses Desjardins du Qu\u00e9bec. 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