In 2010, Fulbright Canada and RBC provided Eco-Leadership awards to 13 current Fulbrighters and alumni of the program. Ruby Lam’s project introduced a daycare to gardening and planting and re-developed an urban space. Ruby and her project partners asked the children who participated: “What do you remember most about gardening?” This is what they said:
“The corn is growing taller than me, but not as tall as a teenager.” – Daisy, 4
“The garden was like a forest!” – Eitan, 7
“The tomatoes are getting bigger and bigger, and healthier and healther!” – Liza, 5
“I got to taste mint.” – Tomasz, 7
To view more photos of this year’s Eco-Leaders’ efforts to engage in environmental action in their communities, please visit our Flickr page.
Tom Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economics and Financial Policy at Queen’s University and a member of the School of Policy Studies, the Department of Economics and the Faculty of Law. He is also Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Public Policy. His research interests include financial deregulation, the political economy of Canadian federalism and comparative federal systems, climate change and the knowledge-based economy. Professor Courchene is the author or editor of some 60 books and over 250 academic articles on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues, including Social Policy in the 1990s: Agenda for Reform, Equalization Payments: Past, Present and Future, and A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians. A collection of his recent articles appears as Rearrangements. His book, Social Canada in the Millennium, was awarded the Doug Purvis Prize for the best Canadian economic policy contribution (1994) and his book, with Colin Telmer,From Heartland to North American Region State: The Social, Fiscal and Federal Evolution of Ontario (1998), won the inaugural Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. He is a recipient of the Molson Prize for lifetime achievement in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1999) and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
I hate summer in the city. Growing up in Montreal, summer meant hot, sticky days and airless nights. Kids cooled off at public pools and families slept on balconies, a Montreal tradition as close to camping as I ever got. Today, you’d think it would be easier to appreciate the attractions of what the Lonely Planet travel guide considers the world’s third-best “summer city.”
