Links to Our Community,
Education & References

 

Our Local Business Partners

  1. BulletWe are an industry partner with OCAD University’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)

  2. BulletBanking: Alterna Savings and Credit Union Ltd.

  3. BulletAccounting:  Tim Minthorn and Associates

  4. BulletTax: Melani Norman Accounting Services

  5. BulletLegal: Natalie McFarlane at Positive Impact Law Group – A Certified Benefit Corporation.

  6. BulletTechnology: easyDNS is the excellent DNS and email Service Provider.

  7. BulletGraphic Design: Nadine Shipley*

Businesses, Groups and Organizations

  1. ➡Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG) at OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) convened by Prof. Nabil Harfoush.

  2. ➡B-Labs Certified Benefit Corporations and Benefit Corporations (re-incorporated as a new class of corporations). Work is starting on Ontario / Canadian legislative changes.  This is being co-ordinated by the Certified B Corporation Hub at the MaRSDD, contact is Joyce Sou.

  3. ★Six minute, but thorough introduction to B Corps from CBC Radio One’s Donna Guzik.

  4. ★Longer video introduction to B Corps from B Lab founder Jay Coen Gilbert.

  5. ★1 hour video overview from Bob Willard, Joyce Sou and Barry Martin @ Green Enterprise Toronto Meeting

  6. ★Toronto based B Corp Meet-up Group.

  7. ➡The Natural Step Canada a science based NGO which takes a practical approach to helping organizations of all kinds and their leaders improve their sustainability based on their rigorously defined system conditions for sustainability using a backcasting approach.

  8. ➡Green Enterprise Toronto (GET) and their GETSmart speakers series for Small and Medium Business

  9. ➡GreenTbiz empowering Toronto Small and Medium Business and Business Improvement Areas to take a hands-on approach to improving our sustainability.

  10. ➡Partners in Project Green (PPG), Canada’s largest Eco-Business Zone (12,500 businesses and more than 355,000 employees with gross anual revenues of C$6.5 billion (2008), which represents slightly less than 0.5% of Canada’s GDP in that year). PPG is a joint project of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)

  11. ➡Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) representing over 22,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada

  12. ➡Toronto Sustainability Speakers Series (TSSS) for sustainability professionals in the Greater Toronto Area, created by Brad Zarnett as the major project for his Masters in Environmental Studies / Graduate Diploma in Business + Environment – a program offered jointly by Faculty of Environmental Studies and Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto

  13. ➡International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) The world's leading professional association of sustainability practitioners

  14. ➡Energy & Climate Change Special Interest Group (E&CC SIG) within the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada)

  15. ➡Bio-Inspired Design Community (BIDC) seeking to help designers of all kinds (products and organizations) leverage designs from the non-human natural world aka biomimicry

  16. ➡Design with Dialogue (DwD) a community of practice where leading design thinkers try out their ideas with the community (that’s you) in a safe environment.  Convened by OCADU Prof. Peter Jones and design practitioner Greg Judelman from The Moment

  17. ➡NetImpact and the NetImpact Chapter at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto

  18. ➡York Sustainable Enterprise Consultants (YSEC)

  19. ➡Unify Toronto who are bringing together a critical mass of people, organizations and networks working toward a sustainable relationship with the natural world, a fair and just society and a fulfilling, meaningful life for all humanity. And in this world-wide movement, Unify Toronto is focusing their energies on where its members live, work and play

  20. ➡Transition Toronto (TTo) - the Toronto branch of the Transition Towns movement

  21. ➡Business Architecture:

  22. •Business Architecture Association’s white paper “Business Architecture: An Emerging Profession” showing design as the critical link between strategy and operations

  23. •Business Architecture Guild’s white paper “Business Architecture: A Key Enabler for Sustainability Strategy Development and Implementation”

Academic and Professional Education

  1. ➡Graduate Diploma in Business + Environment – a program offered jointly by Faculty of Environmental Studies and Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

  2. ➡Centre of Excellence for Responsible Business (CoERB) at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto

  3. ➡Sustainability Learning Centre created by Katheryn Cooper as the major project for her Masters in Environmental Studies / Graduate Diploma in in Environmental / Sustainability Education – a joint program offered by Faculty of Environmental Studies and Education at York University in Toronto

  4. ➡DesignWorks at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.

Useful Books and Reference Websites

  1. ➡Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture (Prof. John Ehrenfeld)

  2. ➡Me to We: Five Commitments That Can Save The Planet and Change Your Life (Prof. Bob Doppelt)

  3. ➡Supply Side Sustainability (Profs.  Timothy Allen, Joseph Tainter, Thomas Hoekstra)  This book is summarized these 12 slides.

  4. ➡Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (William McDonough and Prof. Michael Braungart)

  5. ➡Managing without Growth: Slower by Design Not Disaster (Prof. Peter Victor)

  6. ➡Green Business and Economics (Prof. Brian Milani)

* The “local” exception