About GRAME
Serving the environment for over 30 years!
GRAME works to protect the environment with a long-term perspective and global issues in mind, including climate change. We focus our activities around three complementary pillars.
Direct
action
Our team works to help you reduce your ecological footprint, while also improving cleanliness and making your neighbourhood more beautiful and greener.
Education and awareness
We are committed to mobilizing tomorrow’s young leaders to take eco-responsible action.
Influence and recommendations
We propose environmental solutions for public policies and legislative and regulatory frameworks.
From 1989 to today, hover over the images to learn more about our key milestones.
Our active team
Our team
Residual Materials Management
and Éco-quartier Lachine
Greening
Our planting staff
Each summer, the GRAME team grows with a field crew to plant trees and shrubs across Montréal’s West Island. We’re grateful for our team’s hard work, rain or shine! Have a great season!
Board of Directors
Isabelle
Morin
President
Isabelle Morin is a versatile woman deeply committed to social causes who has held several roles throughout her career. First trained in education to become a high school French teacher, she entered politics at age 26 and became the federal MP for the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine riding in the 2011 election, during the Orange Wave alongside Jack Layton. During her time in Parliament, she advocated, among other things, for a better environment, for young people’s place in Canadian democracy, for animal rights, and for a stronger public transit strategy. After her foray into politics, Isabelle moved into philanthropy. She is currently Director, Development and Communications at Mission inclusion, a Montréal-based foundation working in Quebec and internationally in a mobilizing and innovative way to support the inclusion of the most marginalized people.
Adèle
Boucher
Director
Adèle Boucher is an urban planner and a member of the Ordre des urbanistes du Québec. She holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the Université de Montréal’s School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (UdeM) and the École d’Urbanisme de Paris (EUP). Her expertise focuses on urban planning, transportation planning and mobility, territorial diagnostics, and integrated urban development. Adèle notably worked in Vietnam on adapting cities to the impacts of climate change, mitigating environmental risks in urban planning, urban resilience, and integrated urban development in mid-sized cities in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka). Today in Montréal, she works in transportation and mobility. She is involved in feasibility studies for light automated metro, BRT and tramway projects, as well as environmental impact studies across several regions of Quebec.
Paul
Bourque
Secretary
Born in Montréal and living in Lachine, Paul Bourque holds a Certificate in Industrial Management (CIM). He served 3M for over 30 years and also sat on several federal and provincial committees working in road safety, traffic, and intelligent transportation systems.
Manager/founder of Pabeco Inc. since 1999, he is a member of several boards of directors and various associations, including Trajectoire.org and ITE.org. His involvement in road safety, the environment, public transit and taxation has led him to take action and submit briefs.
Trilingual and athletic, he passes on to the next generation his passion for innovation and technology transfer, across many fields such as heat islands, GHG reduction, rooftop agriculture, and structural draining surfaces.
Vincent
Gagné-Pilon
Director
Vincent Gagné-Pilon holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from “Alma Mater” and a master’s degree in human resources management from HEC Montréal.
Vincent currently works at Desjardins as a Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor. He and his team handle recruitment in the insurance sector in Quebec and Ontario. He previously worked in the health network in talent acquisition for the three preceding years. One of his main mandates was launching recruitment through the “Je contribue” initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vincent is passionate about people, their environment, and finding the right fit for each person in the workplace. Outside of work, Vincent is a dedicated athlete!
Marjorie
Guillemette-Lavoie
Director
Holding a master’s degree in administration with a specialization in corporate social responsibility, a graduate-level short program in public administration, and a governance certification, Marjorie works in ecological transition at the City of Montréal. With strong experience in business development and sustainable development, she has studied and worked in various places around the world, and has volunteered for many years, notably with youth. Marjorie coordinated GRAME’s environmental education projects from 2018 to 2019 and joined the Board of Directors in 2020. Marjorie is passionate about human relationships, plants, and scuba diving.
Julien-Pierre
Lacombe
Director
Julien-Pierre Lacombe holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in environmental management. With about fifteen years of professional experience, he has worked as a sustainability advisor at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) since 2011. A professional in applying sustainable development within organizations, project management, communications and marketing, he dedicates his career to projects that generate positive impacts for the environment and society. His expertise includes, among other areas, climate change mitigation, sustainable mobility, integrating arts and culture, strategic planning, and sustainability awareness. He has been a member of GRAME’s governance committee since January 2021 and a director since June 2021.
Rokhaya
Laye Diagne
Director
Trained as a geographer, Lucie began her career as a consultant in the space sector after completing a master’s degree in remote sensing at University College London in the United Kingdom. Her work alternated between market or strategic analysis projects for clients ranging from space agencies to satellite manufacturers/operators or other satellite imagery users, and so-called due diligence projects serving investors financing international satellite systems of all kinds. During her consulting assignments, she proactively developed an interest in communications and marketing (short contracts at the Canadian Space Agency) as well as business development, which later led her to take on a business development role at a Quebec reforestation and carbon offset company. She also briefly took part in various sustainable development actions and projects as a climate protection officer at McGill University. Since then, she has focused on mandates aimed at supporting stakeholders seeking to improve their carbon footprint and communicate their sustainable development ambitions. Bilingual in French and English, she brings her multi-sector experience and technico-strategic versatility to GRAME as a volunteer and director since summer 2019.
Juste
Rajaonson
Director
Juste Rajaonson has served on GRAME’s Board of Directors since 2020. He is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal and Vice-President of the City of Montréal’s Intercultural Council. He holds a PhD in urban studies and a management certification from Harvard Business School, and specializes in evaluating public interventions through the lens of sustainable development. A former federal public servant, Juste worked alongside senior federal officials at the Privy Council Office, where in 2019 he led the evaluation of new recruitment initiatives in the federal public service. He coordinated reviews and audits of management at Economic Development Canada and contributed to the success of many federal public interventions, including financial assistance programs dedicated to underrepresented groups such as Indigenous peoples, women, youth and remote communities, as well as promoting a greener economy. He brings to GRAME 15 years of combined experience in the public, academic and non-profit sectors, which has led him to sit on numerous expert committees on sustainable urban and regional development in Quebec, teach for five years at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Planning, publish in international research journals, and present his work since 2011 in Europe, the United States and across Canada at international conferences on cities.
Ginette
St-Louis
Director
Me St Louis graduated in law from the Université de Montréal and has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 2011. During her studies, she was a member and then Vice-President for Sustainable Development of the faculty’s Environment Committee, and she successfully led two sustainable development projects at the faculty and in Quebec’s legal field. After starting her career in the Quebec public service while working part-time as a law instructor, M e St Louis opened her own business specializing in training and legal services in 2016, St Louis JurInnovation. She frequently works as a trainer and speaker and specializes in business law, practicing contract law on a daily basis, as well as real estate law and international law.
Me St Louis also acts as legal counsel to leaders of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as to para-public bodies and non-profit organizations, to ensure sound internal contract management.
Lucie
Viciano
Treasurer
Trained as a geographer, Lucie began her career as a consultant in the space sector after completing a master’s degree in remote sensing at University College London in the United Kingdom. Her work alternated between market or strategic analysis projects for clients ranging from space agencies to satellite manufacturers/operators or other satellite imagery users, and so-called due diligence projects serving investors financing international satellite systems of all kinds. During her consulting assignments, she proactively developed an interest in communications and marketing (short contracts at the Canadian Space Agency) as well as business development, which later led her to take on a business development role at a Quebec reforestation and carbon offset company. She also briefly took part in various sustainable development actions and projects as a climate protection officer at McGill University. Since then, she has focused on mandates aimed at supporting stakeholders seeking to improve their carbon footprint and communicate their sustainable development ambitions. Bilingual in French and English, she brings her multi-sector experience and technico-strategic versatility to GRAME as a volunteer and director since summer 2019.
External team
Nicole Moreau
Energy Analyst, public consultations
Prunelle Thibault-Bédard
Lawyer
Geneviève Paquet
Lawyer, public consultations
Marc Bishai
Lawyer
Our volunteers
Get involved in your community!
GRAME works directly in the field for a tangible impact on the environment—and therefore on residents’ well-being. Would you like to give a bit of your time? Whether regularly or occasionally, we’re always looking for volunteers!
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