Investing in student success

McGill students have proven time and time again that they are some of the most creative, versatile and adaptive people in their approach to solving problems, and they’re using knowledge acquired in and outside of the classroom to generate innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in projects stemming from McGill’s Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF). Over the last 12 years, the SPF has sought out and funded forward-thinking community-sourced sustainability projects that will move the University closer to its goal of carbon neutrality by 2040. Since its inception in 2009, the McGill Student-Run Ecological Gardens (MSEG) has been a prime example of the wealth of projects at the heart of McGill’s Climate and Sustainability Strategy.

Past students and MSEG founders Steven Leckman, Kourosh Mohtashami, Andréa Dugas-Hawkes, BSc(AgEnvSc)’12, and Emily McGill, BEng(Bioresource)’12, tell their story of how the inspiration behind the initiative and how students worked together to get their passion project of the ground.

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