What is Green Enterprise Toronto?

GET believes that Toronto can become a sustainable city by supporting its local, green businesses. Through market research, consumer awareness campaigns and building the capacity of locally-owned businesses, GET is the necessary catalyst to make this vision a reality.

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GET News (updated May 7)

Our photo exhibit, Faces of the New Economy, has begun its wandering journey to venues around the city, currently at the Queen Mother as part of the CONTACT festival. Thanks to Grassroots for sponsoring the exhibit, and also thanks to Mountain Equipment Co-Op for renewing support with gifts for guest speakers at our events. Citizens Bank has just launched a new program of special rates for GET members, as we continue to expand our menu of great Member Benefits. This month we have published new articles in Alternatives Magazine (about sustainable design) and Tonic Toronto (about cotton and bamboo). Check out www.torontocorporatevideo.com/get for four fascinating new GET videos. The Jane's Walk event on May 4 led by Chris Lowry, 'Wild Culture in Mud Creek Ravine', was great fun. And, oh yes, the Brewers Plate, our annual celebration of local food and farming, along with the glories of our local craft beer sold out with over 400 in attendance - a bit crowded, but that's a good problem to have! Lots of great press coverage including www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/brewers-plate-review.php more

Business Leaders On Video, Free Online

Great speakers on video! Catch up with the GET Smart Speakers series at your fingertips. www.torontocorporatevideo.com/get

New titles monthly including the stories of Morgan Solar, NOW, MEC, Autoshare, Junxion Strategies and more... more

GET Mentors

GET Members can book a lunch meeting to learn from any of the people on this list! If you are not yet a member, this is one more reason to join.

To consult the complete list of GET Mentors and apply to invite a mentor to lunch, please contact coordinator Warren Coughlin at warrencoughlin@actioncoach.com more

What do you mean by green?

Green filters, certification, screening criteria, eye of the green needle—how do you know if you’re ‘green’ enough?

A new article by GET Network Director Chris Lowry aims to help us sort out this shady question. more

VIA Rail discount for GET members

Take advantage of great discounts for you and up to 3 others to travel anywhere , any time by rail -- a great way to lighten your footprint, and get some work or social time on the road!

Membership has its privileges. Provided that you book online, you will receive 7% off any fare - from the deepest discounted fares right up to VIA1. Members please contact the GET office to get your special discount code and instructions. more

Small firms can go green, too - there's lots of help out there

GET and BALLE featured in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and on TV!

GET is in the news lately. You can see a short documentary about us on Candice Batista's "A Greener Toronto" program on Rogers TV episode from Oct. 13

The Rogers TV piece talks about how we can enable to new Canadians in Toronto's diverse communities to vote with their dollars for local, green and fair commerce. more

Going green feels Ecstatic

GET featured in the Toronto Star more

Toronto's first BUY LOCAL WEEK

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS
DEPEND ON EACH OTHER
Buy Local Week was a great success, with local and national media attention, widespread interest in the blogosphere, and enthusiastic thumbs up on the streets of Toronto. Bigger and better in 2009!

This is the first time that GET has joined together with the Toronto Association or Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) and the BALLE network across North America to celebrate Buy Local Week Dec 1-7. We've got a whole bunch of great reasons why customers should patronize locally-owned business and choose locally-made products when they can. more

Taste Slow, Local and Delicious...

all year-round.

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GET Testimonials

"GET is one of the premiere promoters of progressive economic development in North America. Grounded in the ideas of Jane Jacobs -- to create an economy that is locally owned, diversified, and community-friendly – GET is helping Toronto realize its full potential, and inoculating the city from the coming risks of energy insecurity and climate change. In less than 2 years, GET has established itself as a powerful, place-based alliance of independent businesses and customers that is impressively aligning the concepts of people, planet, and profits. Toronto residents, businesspeople, politicians, and civic leaders should feel blessed to have an organization like GET, and give it the support it needs to thrive and grow."
—Michael H. Shuman, Author of The Small-Mart Revolution

"Thank you so much for inviting me to your wonderful talk. I was so delighted to witness such an awesome project going on in my own backyard. Toronto is a place that I am passionate about. You grabbed my attention the minute you started to describe what you loved about Toronto, mainly the fact that you are fascinated by ALL the city has to offer."
— Annette Grewal, Universarium Project

"I would like to thank you for your excellent presentation. My business philosophy is based on the triple-bottom line, and we have worked to implement the three P's (Planet, People, Profit) as as much as we can. Passionate entrepreneurship works according to a spiral where one can constantly evolve upwards, by maybe spinning around one's axis a few times until one gets each thing right... and when one does get it right, one moves higher (in quality output, work satisfaction, enhanced creativity, sustainability, contribution to community, team spirit, and profits).... How exciting it is to create and help evolve a business, and how much more exciting it is to create and help evolve a business that works in alignment with one's values. I look forward to becoming a member of GET, and I look forward to participating in future events."
— Saeed Rouhani, Camros Organic Eatery more

The Story of Stuff

Why is the local living economy part of the solution? Here is a 20-minute animated story that looks at what makes the consumer society tick, and points in the direction of the values that we celebrate. more