May is Bike Month and it’s a great opportunity to get involved with your cycling community. The City of Toronto and the Toronto Cyclists Union present Bike Month this year to promote cycling.
Defenceman for the Boston Bruins Andrew Ference, one of our GreenHeroes, has set a great example by cycling to work and advocating for this and other green action. We created the Pedal Power campaign to show you how you can get…
GreenHeroes is back filming its next season! This time there is a new generation of heroes, all unafraid to roll up their sleeves and step on some toes to get the job of saving the planet done!
Already, we’ve shot eco-fashionista Kelly Drennan,EcoCab founder Will Kozma and Cape Farewell creator, David Buckland, who is responding to climate change with art.
Watch eco-activists Paul Watson, Farley Mowat and Alexandra Cousteau as they share their inspiring…
Art is a compelling tool for green change.
GreenHeroes Annabel Slaight and Mark Mattson shared this insight with GreenHeroes producer Joan Prowse in a one-hour conversation at the Green Living Show last week.
Annabel Slaight
Ladies of the Lake, which Annabel co-founded to clean up Lake Simcoe, has been very successful largely because of $400,000 in sales from the Ladies of the Lake calendar. Annabel credits this success to the photographer whose…
Interested in living green?
Then join GreenHeroes in Toronto at the Green Living Show, the largest show in North America dedicated to current trends in green innovation.
Don’t miss producer and director of GreenHeroes Joan Prowse in conversation with our Great Lake Heroes Annabel Slaight and Mark Mattson on Saturday, April 14, from 5 p.m to 6 p.m on the main stage.
Don’t forget about…
So, you participated in Earth Hour last week. You want to go green every hour of every day, but you don’t know how and you think you can’t afford to.
Two of our GreenHeroes started organizations that provide green, inexpensive solutions to green issues you likely encounter every day without even knowing it from a leaky toilet to a low-pressure tire.
Stuart Hickox Photo courtesy of Devin Lund
Stuart Hickox started One
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During Canada Water Week, taking place March 19-25, environmental organizations, environmentally conscious individuals and others are raising awareness about the impact we have on our water supply and bodies of water.
Visit our broadcaster TVO’s Canada Water Week page to see descriptions and air times of many programs about water issues that are airing On TVO this week. This TVO page also includes a GreenHeroes section on two defenders of water we are featuring this month: Mark…
Wangari Maathai Photo Credit: Devin Lund
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GreenHeroes is finalizing a deal with Canadian publishing company Fitzhenry and Whiteside to publish a book of GreenHeroes stories and images. It is scheduled to be released in early 2013 in conjunction with the premiere of our television series’ second season on TVO.
Fitzhenry and Whiteside publishes a variety of books in genres such as history, biography, photography and is a leading environmental publisher in Canada. We…
CineFocus Producers and Founders Joan Prowse and John Bessai are pleased to receive an award on behalf of GreenHeroes for making a positive impact through their filmmaking at the MINT Film Festival on Friday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m in Toronto. Their GreenHeroes webisode featuring the late Dr. Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, will be screened…
Leilani Munter is participating in yet another creative campaign to help the environment.
The racecar driver, environmentalist and GreenHero is going to drive a cool new car this week at Daytona to raise awareness about the inhumane treatment of dolphins.The theme of the car is “The Cove,” the documentary about the yearly killing of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.
Ric O’Barry, star of The Cove…
It was an honour indeed to be one of the ten finalists in the ClimateSpark Venture Challenge and to attend the final fete on February 7 in Toronto. What an opportunity it gave the GreenHeroes team to connect with forward thinkers in the climate saving space. Over the three phases of ClimateSpark, we were fortunate to meet with key mentors in the areas of marketing, business and social media to enhance GreenHeroes’ overall concept and business approach and…
