Montreal woman wins national environmental award for work on Saint-Jacques escarpment
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Mintz won a 2021 Nature Inspiration award, a national prize given by the Canadian Museum of Nature to recognize people whose actions contribute to nature preservation.
Former librarian Lisa Mintz is so busy, she keeps two laptops in her home office to keep up with all the work she has.
Still, her mind drifts occasionally to something that happened in late November.
Mintz won a 2021 Nature Inspiration award, a national prize given by the Canadian Museum of Nature. The award recognizes people and organizations whose actions contribute to nature preservation.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’m actually still having trouble assimilating this.”
She was honoured for her work fighting to protect the Saint-Jacques escarpment, a green space between St. Jacques Street in Notre-Dame-de-Grace and the Turcot interchange.
In 2015, Mintz became concerned that the future of the green space was threatened after hundreds of trees were cut down to facilitate the reconstruction of the interchange.
“I found out later it was two hectares of the falaise and I got mad, and I started the group,” she said.
Through the group, Save the Falaise, she pressured governments and residents alike to recognize the importance of the space. In 2020, the City of Montreal made the 60-hectare space a park.
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