The Green List: Advocacy, Innovation, and Sustainable Escapes
A curated directory of the researchers, non-profits, and eco-businesses—from waste management to conservation—shaping a resilient future for Canada.
Wilderness Committee
Environmental program dedicated to preserving wilderness, protecting wildlife, defending parks, safeguarding public resources and fighting for a healthy climate.
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This not-for-profit has been protecting life-giving biological diversity in Canada through strategic research, community mobilizing, and grassroots public education for 40 years.
You can join along with thousands of activists and volunteers to help with campaign activities to defend parks, preserve wilderness, protect wildlife and help safeguard public resources by donating or volunteering your time.
Terre Bleu Lavender Farm
Ontario’s largest lavender farm includes an apiary, herb bar & gift shop selling organic produce made from the eight varieties of lavender grown on the farm.
Small batch products are handcrafted locally with 100% organic Terre Bleu lavender. Shop a selection of gift boxes, vinaigrette, cheese and ice cream, honey jams, propolis throat spray, cleaning spray, linen spray, essential oil, calming salve and balms.
This family-run business hires local students and recent grads every year.
Ian and Isabelle Baird moved from downtown Toronto to rural Milton in 2011 and planted 10,000 lavender plants, sharing their love of lavender and the positive impact of sustainable, organic farming with visitors every summer.
Harbourfront Centre
A not-for-profit Toronto waterfront park for arts, culture and events.
Established in 1972 by the Government of Canada, this is an international centre and cultural organization for innovative arts and outdoor programming. The Craft and Design Studio showcases artists working in textiles, ceramics, and metals.
The 10-acre campus provides year-round programming supporting a wide range of artists and communities, hosting School visits, Summer camps and festivals. The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), based here, is the longest-running and largest literary festival in Canada.
Enjoy skating programs located near the shoreline in the winter and visit The Power Plant public gallery for contemporary visual art.
Get there by TTC, car, bike, walk or boat - this is the closest marina to the City core, and you can dock during the summer boating season.
Green Planet Bio Fuels and Food Packaging
Waste Management Service and Food Packaging Products.
They collect and recycle waste oil and clean grease traps for over 1800 restaurants in the GTA. The Food Service division offers compostable and biodegradable take-out food service products, using 100% BPI certified materials and are designed for hot liquids. Compostable tableware is made from sugarcane and bamboo - no plastic.
Cleaning and servicing grease traps is essential in maintaining a good kitchen.
They supply clean & tamper-proof storage containers - compact storage containers for easier access in smaller spaces and larger bins for commercial producers who use a high volume of oil. They maintain their containers with regular cleaning and pressure-washing of disposal areas.
Régénération Canada
Promoting land management practices that regenerate soil health, restore biodiversity, improve water cycles, and support a healthy food system.
Bringing together farmers, landowners, scientists, agronomists, businesses, community organizations, governments, and citizens to enhance the soil ecosystem and restore its biology.
Terra Cotta Conservation
Home to the Watershed Learning Centre features 504 acres of valleys, cliffs and bedrock plains mixed with diverse forests, wetlands and streams, with 12km of trails for hiking, birdwatching and photography, learning and special events, transforming in winter to allow for cross-country skiing, ice skating and snowshoeing.
This primary scientific authority for the Ontario Watershed provides outdoor learning programs to schools, guiding groups and visitors.
Established in 1954, Credit Valley Conservation Foundation is the charitable arm of Credit Valley Conservation and is one of 36 Conservation Authorities with a mandate to ensure Ontario’s water, land and natural habitats are conserved, restored and responsibly managed.
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Canada’s leader in horticulture research and innovation to improve economic viability, sustainability and competitiveness.
A hub for Automation Biocontrol Systems, Consumer Insights, Greening the Landscape and Plant Variety Development on Lake Ontario in Niagara. Vineland’s 218-acre campus comprises 35 buildings, including research laboratories, farms and greenhouses, and is maintained by the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario (ARIO).
Vineland is an independent, not-for-profit organization with goals to diversify production, commercialize automation technologies to reduce labour costs and improve environmental performance on and off the farm.
Green Circle Salons
A sustainable program for salons and spas to recycle, recover and repurpose beauty waste.
Created by beauty industry leaders, this award-winning solution empowers salons to recover up to 95% of their beauty waste, including previously unrecoverable materials and hard-to-recycle items like hair clippings, foils, excess hair colour, aerosol cans, colour tubes and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
They collect beauty waste and work with local partners to turn it into new products or clean energy. Find out where the beauty waste goes.
Get your beauty salon to join the program. Partners are recycling facilities, chemical waste facilities, clean energy producers and bio-composite plastic producers.
Evergreen Brick Works
An active City Park with public art, markets, outdoor learning and nature play, environmentally focused events and conferences.
Located in the Don River Valley, the Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many city homes and well-known landmarks. The quarry is now restored as a city park with a series of naturalized ponds, while restored buildings are a learning centre for community and cultural events.
This is a learning hub for showcasing practices that balance the needs of people while caring for the green space surrounding the site in the Don River Valley Park, a 200-hectare park spanning Pottery Road to Corktown Common.
This national charity is dedicated to restoring nature in urban environments, planting urban gardens, protecting native trees and teaching our children to care for the earth.