May
18
2013
Co-Founder, Fashion Forward
Co-Founder, Fashion Forward, Jodi Goodfellow discusses the vision for her online classified ads for fashion company.
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Aug
08
2012
Chair, Board of Directors, Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN)
Marie Lorenzo is the chair of the Board of Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). In this interview, she discusses why women are the change agents, why many everyday products and foods are dangerous to your health, and what women can do today to have a more healthy environment.
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Jul
08
2012
Principal, Dubbeldam Design Architects
Heather Dubbeldam is an award-winning architect. In this interview, she demystifies what an architect does and discusses the importance of sustainability, eco living, and why there are not more women in the field — and what she is doing to change that.
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Jun
02
2012
Urban farmer and founder, City Seed Farms
Erica Lemieux is an urban farmer and founder, City Seed Farms. Find out how this urban farmer came up with the idea of using the backyards of neighbours in the Toronto area, and turning it into a sustainable farming business.
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Apr
07
2012
President & CEO, Wo-Built Inc.
Martina Ernst is the President/CEO of Wo-Built Inc, one of few female-led design and build companies in the Greater Toronto Area. Wo-Built believes that women are great assets to the building industry, especially in the finishing trades. They provide mentoring and support for women, and help cultivate their distinctive talents whenever possible.
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Mar
03
2012
Cathy's Crawly Composters
Cathy Nesbitt, environmentalist, worm advocate & founder, Cathy’s Crawly Composting
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Aug
08
2011
Founder, Fashion Takes Action
Kelly Drennan is the Founder of Fashion Takes Action, a national non-profit organization that works with fashion based businesses to help them become more sustainable.
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Aug
07
2011
Founders, Red Tent Sisters
Red Tent Sisters is a business partnership between Toronto-based sisters Amy and Kimberley Sedgwick. Although their educational and career paths have differed in many ways, they share a passion for women’s health issues and aspired to be entrepreneurs.
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Jun
26
2011
Founder, Not Far From the Tree
Laura Reinsborough is the founder of Not Far From The Tree, a not-for-profit organization that harvests fruit from trees around the city of Toronto.
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Jun
26
2011
CEO, Summerhill
Ersillia Serafini is the CEO of Summerhill, a Toronto-based organization that develops and executes strategies that move the market toward better choices for consumers and the environment.
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Jun
26
2011
Ecoholic Columnist, NOW Magazine
Best-selling author of the green living bibles ECOHOLIC and ECOHOLIC HOME. Adria Vasil currently writes the practical and humour-filled ECOHOLIC advice column for Toronto’s NOW Magazine, and previously covered environmental and social justice issues for NOW’s news section for a decade.
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Jun
26
2011
"Green Living" Real Estate Sales Representative
Miriam Sanua is a green living real estate sales representative focused on sustainable lifestyles.
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Jun
26
2011
Founder & President, Local Food Plus
Lori Stahlbrand is the founder and president of Local Food Plus (also known as LFP). LFP fosters regional food economies through a unique farm certification for environmentally and socially responsible production, combined with market development and public education. Earlier in her career, Lori was a CBC journalist and broadcaster.
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Jun
26
2011
Eco-Journalist
Emily Hunter is the daughter of Greenpeace’s founding president Robert Hunter, journalist, environmental activist and author of “The Next Eco-Warriors.”
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