What is Green Enterprise Toronto?

GET is a network to help local businesses and customers to "vote with your dollars" for people, planet, and profit. more

Forward thinking...
"Future Mobility -- (my car isn't mine, I walk to the GT 'A' train, and my other car is a bicycle)"

The Monthly "GET Smart!" speaker series continues Tuesday May 13th with a focus on the future of transportation in the Toronto region, in association with Spacing magazine's "Car and the City" issue.

What kind of changes are in the wind for public transit and roads in the GTA, how are cars part of the future, and what are the implications for small and medium sized business? Find out from Rob MacIsaac, Chair of Metrolinx, Kevin McLaughlin, Founder and CEO of Autoshare, and Mike Brcic, Executive Director
Bikes Without Borders.
Tues. May 13, 7 pm
Green Enterprise Toronto—GET
At the Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue, suite 120 more

The Local Living Economy—It's a better party!

Special thanks to OurFaves.com for bringing a great group of favers to mix it up with GET entrepreneurs and local PEN Canada writers.

An evening with kindred spirits, a sultry spring fever jazz quartet (Whitney Smith and friends), local literary hero Katherine Govier exploring the spirit of place that animates the many faces of Toronto, Morris Dance performance to celebrate May Day, and fine food from the local-sustainable Gladstone kitchen. more

The Brewers Plate, A Local Sustainable Feast

Co-Sponsored by Local Food Plus and Slow Food Toronto

Slide show now on Flickr — See link below.
flickr.com/photos/yvonnebambrick/sets/72157604578418093/

What does a great local feast look like in early April in southern Ontario? It looks like the Brewers Plate! Thanks to the fabulous growers, food producers, brewers. chefs, food artisans and restauranteurs who made this first annual event such a great success.
Have a quick look at the photos and you won't want to miss any of our parties! more

Taste Slow, Local and Delicious.

Farmers' markets are starting up again, and many in southern Ontario continue all year, such as Dufferin Grove.

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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

Bring the family to a great community eco-fest
Saturday June 14

GET members are invited to be vendors/display!

The second annual Strawberries and Asparagus Festival - a
celebration of community, greenspace and the environment. Live music,food, a green marketplace and much more! Saturday, June 14, 11:00am –5:00pm. Cedarvale Park. Admission is free. (don't let last year's cool poster fool you!) more

GET News

Say Cheese, Chris Lowry guest lecture at IWB May 6, GET down to Boston in June, Radical Business Intensive, Windfall Opportunities, Eco-Deals and more! more

Update from the Network Director

April 15/08:

Leslie Domenico is our new GET Marketing and Membership coordinator. Leslie offers our members a passion for the local living economy, as well as strong skills in marketing and event organizing. Welcome aboard Leslie!

If you look on the right you'll see some new sustaining members. Our media sponsors help us to attract more people to our directory, where we connect mindful local customers with the values-based independent businesses in our network.

The website and directory have been enhanced. You can expect more new features soon.

Look for the GET Member window sticker in local independent shops and restaurants. Soon, with your help, this important symbol of local, sustainable commitment will be all over town and customers will come to know and trust it.

Check out articles by Chris Lowry in Edible Toronto magazine ("The Future of Travel') and on the GreenMoms.ca website ("Green by Example"). more

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

GET Videos!

Enjoy the GET Smart! video series.
Co-produced for GET by Engine One Productions.

Selected GET Smart! titles soon to be available via free download! more

You can GET Involved!
CHARTER MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS provide essential support for GET. Click here to find out more.

While we feature links to our Sustaining Members on the right of the page, we gratefully acknowledge the essential support of our Charter members. more