Serre de Karyne

After two years of construction, the Maisonneuve family — left to right Carl, Marc, Mary Lou, Paul and Elyse — stand in front of Gisèle Lalonde high school's first solar greenhouse classroom. Since eight-year-old Karyne Maisonneuve passed away in 2006, the family has dedicated their time to build sustainable energy projects at the school, where their children attend.

On May 23^rd 2012, le Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO), l’école secondaire publique Gisèle-Lalonde in Ottawa and the Maisonneuve family inaugurated the very first classroom in Canada built in a solar greenhouse. This unique classroom is part of “Projet Karyne“, a set of initiatives related to renewable energy. The project was created in 2006 in memory of Karyne Maisonneuve, an 8 year-old girl who died of cancer. Read more…