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Green Clean! for institutional, business and janitorial clients. Green For Life has excellent cleaning products that are non toxic, including Allergy-Safe products. Photo: Cassandra Dass-Pierce, Director more
Business Membership"I suggest you join GET, a consumer advocacy group for all things green in the GTA. The membership cost is low considering all the benefits: website listing, great business seminars for a great price, networking etc etc. We have received a few leads because we are listed on the website."
—Christine Lolley B.E.S. M.ARCH, Solares Design Build Inc. Excellent Member Benefits
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| | GET News (updated regularly) Green Jobs, World Food Day party, Planet in Focus, Fashion Takes Action, GET Festive in January, Green Coalition Merges With Green Enterprise Toronto, plus new GET videos, and more! more
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| | During BUY LOCAL WEEK December 1-7, think LOCAL FIRST! FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS
DEPEND ON EACH OTHER This is the first time that GET has joined together with the Toronto Association or Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) abd the BALLE network across North America to celebrate Buy Local Week. 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
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| | The Brewers Plate, A Local Sustainable Feast
Don't miss the Second Annual Brewers Plate Friday, APRIL 17, 2009!
(note the new date) Co-Sponsored by Local Food Plus and Slow Food Toronto
Take a moment to see a wonderful slide show of this event and check out the fascinating Ontario Brewer Podcast #17. This is an excellent audio documentary featuring Chris Lowry with Jamie Kennedy and Paul de Campo of Slow Food Toronto. Links below! What does a great local spring feast look like 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.
"It's a beautiful way to the future!" (Jamie Kennedy) more
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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
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| | 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
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| | Announcing GET’s VIA Rail Canada Weekend Getaway Contest!
Open to GET Members Only. For your chance to win a VIA ONE weekend trip to Montreal for two with hotel, simply send three new GET members our way by December 31, 2008. And don’t forget to remind them to tell us who sent them!
Need help explaining GET to prospective members? For an electronic copy of our New Member Info Sheet with updated, expanded benefits and annual fee options, just give Leslie a shout at 416-644-1012 or leslie@greenenterprise.net more
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| | The New GET Smart Seminar Series is All About Business DATES AND DETAILS TBA; SUBSCRIBE TO GET NEWS TO STAY TUNED. 1: How to stretch your marketing dollars: Eco-smart advertising for maximum impact
2: What does being a values-based business mean and how can it make me money?
3: How to finance new ventures, growth and green capital expenditures
4: Grow your business while supporting your community
5: How to advertise without killing the planet
6: Starting an office-less office
Each Seminar is at 215 Spadina, Suite 120, 7 pm. Free for GET members, $75 for non-members. more
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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
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| | Update from the Network Director Thanks to our amazing intern, Jonathan Fung, for all your work, especially directory improvements. We wish him ood luck back a Guelph with his studies.
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. more
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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
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| | 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
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Want to buy locally but don't know where to look? Click on the product categories below to link to locally-owned stores, manufacturers and service providers – each one a GET member dedicated to building a green economy. Advertising / Marketing / Promotions Services Architects / Design / Build Baby / Children / Family Products Bags Beverages / Breweries Body / Hair / Cosmetics Bookstores Business Support / Consulting Services Catering Cleaning Products / Services Clothing and Fashion - Consumer Clothing - Custom / Wholesale Courier Services Education Energy Products / Services Event / Party / Wedding Planning Finance Flowers and Gifts Food - Organic / Fair Trade / Local Footwear Fundraising Funeral Products and Services Graphic Design Services Green Resources and Directories Grocery and Food Delivery Healthcare and Wellness Services Home Furnishing & Decor Housing / Real Estate / Mortgages IT Support Jewelry and Accessories Landscaping Lawn and Garden Legal Counsel Lighting Technologies Media / Television / Film Music and Audio Nutritional and Fitness Services Office Supplies Personal Coaching Pest Control Pet Products Photography Printing and Promotional Product / Services Recycling / Reuse Renovation / Home Improvement Restaurants / Cafes / Clubs Restaurant Suppliers Retail Stores Social / Cultural / Environmental Enterprises Transportation Travel and Accommodation Web Hosting and Development
Featured Consumer> Howard Szafer This good Friend of GET has tips for frugal consumers and some great recipes. more
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