The new Desjardins building in Lévis houses the tallest interior living wall in the world with more than 11,000 individual plants artfully arranged according to colour, texture, pattern and size covering a 15-storey wall of the new building at 150 rue des Commandeurs, in Lévis. The artwork, “The Currents”, was designed by Green over Grey, […]

Tomatoes on the roof, ferns on the walls… The Desjardins Group, Canada’s leading cooperative financial group and the fifth largest in the world, is taking the principle of sustainability to heart and introducing ground-breaking environmental initiatives at all levels – literally. The roof of a bank might be one of the last places you’d expect […]

With more than 6 million members and clients, Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada. As an International Co-operative Alliance member, Desjardins shares the same ideals as thousands of cooperatives around the world. These ideals are expressed through a set of values that defined the cooperative identity since the very start. For more […]

Desjardins and Solidarité rurale du Québec presented the fisrt-ever Ruralia-Desjardins award to the Coopérative de solidarité de Baie-Johan-Beetz for creating “Les Choix de Marguerite”, a local multiservice centre. After the town’s only grocery store closed, residents were forced to travel hundreds of kilometres to stock up on food and supplies. Not exactly convenient! That’s why, […]