ECOLE (Educational Community Living Environment) is a model of urban sustainable living and a physical hub for the McGill and Montreal sustainability communities. Our mandate, as defined in our constitution, is to “bring together McGill students, faculty and staff and Montreal community members in the pursuit of sustainable living by means of applied student research, alternative education, and community building. ECOLE is an ongoing experiment that strives to be a model of urban sustainable living.” ECOLE fulfills its mandate by building on the Three Pillars of ECOLE: Living, Learning, and Community Building.