Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is a collaborative partnership between environmental nonprofits and corporations. In today’s complex and fast changing world, we believe that only by working together can we protect the environment and build a sustainable future. Together, our partners support and strengthen Alberta’s environmental groups through grants and programs that build resilience and competence for mission delivery.
Aroundsquare is a small company devoted to healthy development, inside and out - the individual and society. From creative playthings to educational development, AO2 leverages creativity and learning for the greater good. Our work focuses on children, and the company’s slogan - play today : build tomorrow - reflects our values around child development.
BikeBike is Calgary’s premiere everyday cycling specialists. We feature bicycles, services, and products that support car-free living, bike commuting, pathway exploring, running errands and city cycling of all kinds. Our mission is to spread our passion for bicycles as fun and responsible transportation to our customers and to lead everyday cycling forward in a positive and professional manner.
Birds & Bees (formerly en Santé) is Alberta's first and only organic-fruit cottage winery where the Chrapko family have been producing organic fruits and wines for over a decade. You are joining a long, proud tradition of honest, hand-crafted, environmentally friendly food production.
Bite Groceteria & Caffe is an inner-city grocery and wholesale food marketer. We offer a selection of imported and local exotic meats and cheeses, farm-fresh produce, handmade pastas and hard-to-find items for chefs and home chefs alike. Our fresh and delicious foods contain no preservatives, synthetic flavors or harmful chemicals.
Black Sheep Mattress Company was founded by some of the most nit-picky of fellas imaginable. We knew there was a better way to deliver the best possible sleep on a better designed, hand-crafted mattress. Better for your sleep, better for your back and better for the environment, it's that simple.
Blackline GPS designs, manufactures, and markets employee safety monitoring devices that empower businesses to run their operations more responsibly from an occupational health & safety perspective. By encouraging businesses to be responsible in their operations, Blackline GPS is promoting social sustainability. A business that values and protects human life is more sustainable than one that does not.
BluPlanet Recycling Inc. is Calgary’s fastest growing multi-family residential recycling collection service provider. BluPlanet Recycling is dedicated to environmental and social responsibility in all of our operations. Besides the benefits derived from our core recycling operations, BluPlanet supports local not-for-profit organizations and is a climate neutral company.
Bow Point Nursery was started to fill the need for better quality, hardier, drought and pest tolerant plants for the Calgary region. Our main focus is native woody plants of Southern Alberta grown from locally collected seed. We only sell what we grow at the nursery. Survival of the fittest.
Bow Valley Power is a local electricity retailer with a mandate of contributing 20% of profits towards environmental sustainability. Bow Valley Power sells both ‘regular’ and ‘green’ power and believes that promoting innovation with respect to renewable electricity generation is very important to Alberta’s future.
Boxwood serves local seasonal and sustainable food and wants to connect more people more often to wholesome and delicious lunch, snack and supper. Spontaneous nourishment brought to you by the creators of River Cafe.
Brain Gym® for Business/To Your Health Services helps people to honour their innate intelligence, encourages their creativity, and facilitates their self-expression leading to stronger communities. By using specific sets of movements, processes, materials, and educational philosophy, we demonstrate that moving with intention leads to optimal learning and results in dramatic increases in concentration and focus, memory, self-responsibility, organizational skills, and attitude.
Bundles of Energy is a trusted resource for people wanting to make healthy eating and lifestyle choices. Centered on the principles of holistic nutrition, our support system and programs teach clients what really matters about food and healthy living. Our vision is a society where children and adults eat local, whole, natural and organic foods and live in harmony with the earth. Bundles of Energy… the gentle shift to amazing health.
C3 is a Calgary based, award winning non-profit organization that works to transform how energy is used. It engages a wide range of international audiences in education and action based solutions that address energy efficiency. C3 delivers programs such as municipal water and energy saving rebates, employee Green Spending Accounts, trucking and commercial lighting incentives, hybrid taxis and home energy efficiency.
Available ground or whole bean.
We are old school when it comes to our espresso which was developed for us in 1990 using a blend of 5 carefully selected beans – our roast has a rich, dark Italian style profile.
We have two beautiful and sexy espresso machines “THE SLAYER” new innovative technology – created by Fratello’s design studio in Seattle; they pour a perfect shot everytime.
Signature drinks have to be anything chocolate – our Mocha is to die for as is our Chocolate Espresso milkshake – YUM, YUM!
Calgary Co-op’s roots run deep in the heart of the community as the only truly Calgarian food retailer. We provide the freshest, best quality products at competitive prices, and are the only retailer in Calgary offering an annual membership refund in the form of cash and equity to our member-owners.
Calgary Dollars is Calgary’s complementary currency system, started by the Arusha Centre in 1996. We believe that every person has something of value to offer to their neighbours. By encouraging local production and consumption, we are committed to creating a healthy economy that is rooted in a healthy society and a healthy ecosystem.
Calgary Economic Development is an opportunity-maker, helping to spark and fuel Calgary’s growth. Our job is to connect people with resources that can help them grow their careers or businesses, thrive in new locations or markets, and feel at home in our community.
Cookies on the Go is a not-for-profit bakery & café operated by Calgary Progressive Lifestyles Foundation, which promotes self sufficiency and growth for adults who have a disability. Our menu items are made from scratch, without preservatives. We offer catering, office delivery, unique gift baskets, and cookie accounts. We are enriching our community one cookie at a time.
Casel Marché is Calgary's culinary hot spot - a European-inspired marketplace that puts a modern spin on an Old World concept. We believe that supporting local food production and small businesses leads to healthy communities and a vibrant local economy. Marché vendors Market 17, Vie Café, J. Webb Wine Merchant and Cassis Bistro work closely together in support of each other, as well as in support of the Calgary community through local events and initiatives. Casel Marché is the producer of Eat Real YYC, Calgary's newest food festival, promoting local food, small business and real communities.
City Palate is a publication celebrating Calgary’s food culture, written for people who are passionately interested in good food and drink. City Palate informs and educates, entertains and provokes, as it brings together the producers, sellers and lovers of everything to do with good food, good drink and the good life. City Palate is The Flavour of Calgary’s Food Scene.
CJSW 90.9FM is Calgary’s only campus and community radio station, based at the University of Calgary. CJSW is a non-profit society, composed of volunteer members who help create programming, with a mandate to serve the community. It broadcasts music, spoken word and multicultural programming on 90.9FM, 106.9 cable and www.cjsw.com.
At Claudia’s Choices, we know you care about your family and about the environment. It is our mission to offer your family products that are safe and effective alternatives to commercially available laundry & cleaning products. Our specialty is to help new parents with their baby’s diapering needs, especially for those families who choose to wash reusable diapers at home. Our goal is to help minimize our impact on the environment and support sustainable living. We believe that every small step is a step in the right direction.
Community Natural Foods’ two stores are the hub of Calgary’s holistic health community. For more than 30 years we have been recognized by top local chefs, farmers and holistic healers as the place to shop for delicious organic food and sustainable lifestyle products. Our customers and staff fervently believe in supporting local organic farms, fair trade suppliers and family farms.
Conscious Brands is a boutique sustainability firm with the core purpose of Activating Sustainability. Since 2006, they have energized customized projects that foster strategic action and collaborative learning in moving towards sustainability. Key offerings include: Strategic-planning, Sustainability Action Planning, BCorp certification support, Collaboratorium hosting and SpiralTable (Executive Leadership co-Development program).
Conscious Home provides in-home coaching services to Calgary homeowners who have the will and commitment, but not necessarily the time or the knowledge to ‘green’ their homes. The mission of Conscious Home is to empower and excite Calgarian households to rethink their lifestyle choices through one-on-one education, coaching, and holistic strategies that consider environmental impact. Our vision is to make Calgary’s environmental future brighter and more sustainable.
Cuisine Concepts restaurant group owns the Big Fish and Open Range eateries on Edmonton Trail. Big Fish focuses on fresh oysters and sustainable seafood, and Open Range specializes in local beef and game meats.
Culinaire is Canada's freshest food and beverage magazine. Along with the features of our Editorial Calendar, every issue of Culinaire contains entertaining and informative columns such as: Chefs’ Tips, Local Success Stories, Ask the Expert, Wine/Beer/Spirits Features & Reviews, Culinaire’s Top 10, Cocktail Corner, Restaurant and Wine List Reviews, Menu Gems, Gadgets/Appliance/Book Reviews, Local Event and Festival Coverage, Where to Buy and Culinaire’s Exclusive Reader Competitions.
desnoyers-schuler is a social enterprise creating strategic communications plans and tools to promote positive behavioural change. desnoyers-schuler works with clients sharing matching values dedicated to health, wellness and sustainable living.
Element Integrated Workplace Solutions is the Calgary Distribution Partner for DIRTT Environmental Solutions.
DIRTT produces custom modular construction solutions that save waste, energy and space.
Our guiding values
Every level of DIRTT reflects our devotion to the environment. Our solutions mitigate waste, energy and sprawl for our Clients. Our manufacturing methods, our marketing tools and our people are continually lessening the waste stream, carbon footprint and energy use. Equally important, every day we prove environmental sustainability is a profitable enterprise that does not cost our Clients more and in fact can improve their own efficiencies.
Harness technology
By making ICE® software our platform, DIRTT is the first company in the world able to manufacture custom solutions as a standard practice using fewer resources than typical manufacturers. The patented combination of a videogame experience, with the intelligence of engineering and design, means ICE gives Clients a full understanding of their construction project. Simultaneously ICE delivers the design as a barcode directly to the factory floor — no matter where that factory is in the world.
Doctor For Moms is a multidisciplinary center of natural health care providers that caters to the needs of pregnant women, babes and families. Each practitioner offers genuine, flexible and individualized care. Escape from your busy day and experience how good it is to live your best life... today.
Eco-yards™ provides eco-friendly landscaping design, installation, consultation, Eco-yards™ Spray™ service (compost tea fertilization and health), and education (book, poster, presentations). Our clients want yards that are children and pet friendly, easy to maintain, and provide beauty and colour year-round. Our book Eco-yards: Simple steps to earth-friendly landscapes details our philosophy.
Effective Health Solutions facilitates better health by addressing the root of the problem(s) with compassion and understanding. We believe that responsible consumption of foods and products ensures the well-being of ourselves and our planet. Our goal is to make the world a healthier place, one person at a time.
Eleven: Eleven Boutique carries sustainable, ethically-made clothing by independent Canadian designers, with a focus on Calgary designers and artisans. We believe in freedom of expression, living comfortably, and making choices that have a positive impact. We are one people sharing one earth. Let's do things a little differently.
Evergreen Theatre Society is a touring, educational theatre company dedicated to science theatre of the natural world. We create original, musical productions aimed at getting young (and not-so-young) audiences singing, dancing and learning about science. We believe the best way to inspire change in the treatment of our environment is to reach out to tomorrow’s decision-makers.
Executive Mat and Janitorial Supply has been providing quality products, superior service and affordable prices since 1996. As Canada's only ISO 14001 certified textile rental company we have a mandate to monitor and improve our environmental impact. We are headquartered in Calgary with operating offices in Vancouver, Edmonton and Regina/Saskatoon.
f8 photography Inc. fine art for modern love.
We document life; everything from babies & families, weddings, professional portraits, beautiful homes & delicious food. With 13+ years in business as a husband & wife team we've photographed it all. Our studio is located in our community of Ramsay where we constantly strive to live a life that reduces our daily impact. Experience how easy looking good in photos can be.
First Calgary Financial is Calgary’s only locally-owned and operated credit union, serving over 80,000 members. First Calgary Financial has been named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies for 11 consecutive years, one of Alberta’s Top 50 Employers and one of Canada’s Green 30 Companies.
At Full Circle Parenting our mission is to share ideas about styles of parenting that create sustainable relationships. We work with parents through on-on-one coaching and classes to create physical, emotional, and social environments that empower children and parents to create sustainable relationships and culture.
GOOD Company creates branding, printed and digital communications for people who do good things. Whether your work involves developing products or services that inspire positive change, taking steps towards lessening environmental impacts or attempting new and innovative approaches to important social challenges, we’ll probably have a lot to talk about, because we care about these things too. Connect with us to see how we’ve helped others, and to talk about the good we can do together.
We empower Calgarians to create healthy homes and communities through environmental education, products and services.
We at Green Start provide custom recycling programs for both residential and commercial developments. Our programs, founded on convenience and efficiency, unite conscious consumers in a movement to live better. We are progress, with purpose.
greengate garden centre gives you inspiration and ideas to create your
perfect garden. Gardening can be a puzzling endeavor, so we offer customers years of first hand information on gardening to help you choose and nurture the right greenery for your space. Understanding local growing conditions, plant varieties and environmental impact is how we help Calgarians nurture a beautiful and healthy environment.
At Highwood Crossing we value the sustainable production of real food and believe that the relationship between the land, what we eat and our health is vitally linked. These values are reflected in the local, organic and delicious foods we offer to you. Good Food… Local, Organic, Delicious
International Avenue is a vibrant business district with a diverse ethnic composition located on 17th Avenue S.E., from 26 to 61st streets, in Calgary. There is an interesting mix of business representative of the cosmopolitan neighbourhoods surrounding the Avenue. It is an area of one-stop shopping with access to a selection of restaurants and grocery stores from around the world, as well as a wide range of other retail goods and services.
Jennifer Allford is a writer and communications consultant who works with a wide variety of clients ranging from sustainability gurus to energy companies – with all sorts of advertising agencies, institutions and other peeps thrown in. Over the years, she’s written loads of websites, endless headlines, enough videos and pages and pages of stories.
Juice is a strategic communications firm. We partner with innovative organizations, helping them improve their efforts to engage and inspire through education. We believe that everyone can be a lifelong learner. People respond to communications when we respect that desire to learn by crafting meaningful, provocative and inspiring messages.
Leela Eco Spa & Studio is Calgary’s premier eco spa and yoga boutique. Our massage therapists, yoga instructors and estheticians are all here to make your Leela experience the best it possibly can be! Whether you are looking for health and fitness benefits or a relaxing, pampering experience, Leela provides a holistic, and individualized experience!
Opening the door to your imagination. At Mango Tango Interiors we recognize the importance of creating a calm, positive environment that nurtures and supports your body, mind and soul. Our talented designers transform your space with consideration to working area, desires and available budget.
Marda Loop BRZ is an inner city district where we promote and support local businesses, beautify and enhance the pedestrian realm, maintain a clean, safe and functional environment as well as encourage local shopping/interaction within the area through a series of special events that we host throughout the year.
At Market 17, you will discover the charm of a European-style market, with thoughtfully selected fresh produce and crusty breads made with love, not artificial preservatives. We feature refreshing alternatives to the mechanized foods filling Big-Box grocery stores. Our warm, friendly staff connects you to trusted brands by researching ingredients, learning company history, and tasting it ourselves!
We're lovers of local food, advocates of organics and supporters of sustainable agriculture and ethical treatment of animals. We'd love to help you prepare your meal by picking the best ingredients, and sharing advice on our favorite products!
Momentum exists because, despite all of Calgary’s prosperity, there are still people living in poverty in our city, many of whom work full-time hours. These Calgarians do not need a band-aid approach to crisis management; they need the tools to prevent such crises from happening. Momentum serves people who are ready to make a change and make it last.
Muttley Crue is Calgary’s only 100% organic, chemical free and eco-friendly dog grooming, daycare and retail spa. We provide Calgary dog owners with a green, pet care alternative – one of only a few in North America. Helping reduce Calgary’s carbon paw print one groom at a time!
No AdMail offers a simple and affordable solution to end the delivery of unaddressed ad mail with the patent pending No AdMail sign. Made of recycled plastic, the sign hangs inside your mailbox and tells your letter carrier you don’t want unaddressed ad mail. The No AdMail sign is universal. It was designed for all mailbox types - rural, community, apartment or house!
One Self Inspired Learning envisions helping people help heal themselves, based on the motto, ‘Find Your Self, & Find Peace’. By helping people increase awareness of their true selves we help them gain a greater awareness of their larger role in the world, and consequently their responsibility to help sustain and nurture it in loving, healthy ways.
Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou are the creative team behind oopoomoo. Partners in life and in business, they are professional photographers based out of Cochrane. Renowned for their accessible and engaging teaching style, Darwin and Samantha share their photographic knowledge during talks, seminars and workshops and lead photography tours. They also author educational eBooks and photography eGuides.
"There are many photography 'how to' sites on the internet, but at oopoomoo, we strive to be aware of our place as a local business in a global marketplace. Our goal is to share by example. Initiatives such as raising awareness of local sustainability issues and educating clients about green alternatives to the 'business as usual' mentality prevalent in the photography industry are woven into general photography offerings. At oopoomoo, we realize that we are all citizens of the earth, and this understanding provides a framework for how we live and do business."
Open Your Eyes Media is here to open your eyes to milestone events and social issues through the production of special event and corporate videos and documentaries. It’s founders strive to bring to light some details that may become overlooked or forgotten. We are also available for freelance shooting and editing.
PEL Recycling is committed to becoming your complete recycling solution and helping you divert as much material as possible. All our reprocessors are vetted by Green Calgary or other agencies to ensure your material is recycled properly.
Precise Web Marketing is a Calgary web design and online marketing company with one goal—to help you succeed. With more than 15 years of experience, our web designers and online marketing experts understand how to help you identify the goals of your website and will create a solution to help you achieve your goals.
Raven Conversations was formed out of a deep belief in the power of dialogue to catalyze transformative change.
Meaningful conversations are an opportunity for diverse people to come together in order to: imagine new possibilities for our communities, workplaces and world; develop and strengthen our relationships with one another; and create new, collective knowledge, all with the intention of contributing to vibrant, healthy and resilient communities and organizations that better support the well-being of people and the planet.
In a world where change happens so quickly, conversations are needed more than ever. They help us take the necessary time to slow down, reflect, identify what we care about and what most needs doing.
This is why Raven Conversations exists. We design and facilitate the right conversation, informed by the right questions, to support you and your world changing work.
From within Canada and around North America, at Reworks you will find a wide range of home decor, personal accessories, furniture, lighting and gifts all made from upcycled or recycled materials. We search for quality designs and maintain strict guidelines for sustainability. Many items here are one-of-a-kind.
Riva’s is established with the goal of being your small Neighborhood General Store. We aim to carry a wide range of high-quality, non-toxic products to fulfill all of your daily household needs. We hope to educate and inspire, with the intent that one piece of knowledge can bring about a world of change. We provide Calgarians with non-toxic solutions to improve their health, and to better our World.
River Café is dedicated to providing an exquisite and unique fine dining experience with exceptional food, service, and hospitality. We offer delicious menu items with high quality ingredients that are grown or raised locally, organically, naturally or free of chemicals and pesticides, and from producers whose practices support sustainability of the land, rivers, and sea.
S.A.M.M. European Design offers eco-friendly remodeling, interior design and decorating solutions, as well as Home Staging services. The principal designer, Swantje Macke-Monteiro is an Eco Design consultant and will transform your living spaces by marrying eco-lifestyle with esthetics. Her motto is: “you don’t have to sacrifice style for sustainability”!
Shop and Share.ca allows you to support your favorite Canadian charity/non-profit each time you make an online purchase – without spending a penny more! It’s easy. Simply visit our website, find your favorite retailers, buy what you want, when you want, and your favorite charity will receive automatic donations.
Sled Island is an annual music and arts festival and an experiment in urban life. Culture shouldn’t be contained in isolated pockets, so we step past barriers among different businesses, different fans of different forms of music, and different age groups. Our goal is to open up Calgary to see and hear things together and share experiences with each other.
Sunnyside Natural Market is an intimate neighbourhood market in the heart of Kensington. We are a grocery that specializes in local and organic produce, organic and hormone free meat, organic dairy products, locally produced baked goods, and a Deli featuring delicious grab and go foods (Deli opens Jan. 2013).
SwizzleSticks SalonSpa is Calgary’s leading Day Spa and full-service Salon. We are proud to be an Aveda Concept Lifestyle SalonSpa, using and selling the complete Aveda product line in our Stör, Salon and Spa. Together with Aveda, we are committed to the environment, our planet and all its inhabitants. Our mission is simple: to bring you the best in health, wellness and beauty… naturally.
The Light Cellar is a family owned business offering fairly traded, sustainably priced, 100% raw organic superfoods and raw chocolate making ingredients to individuals, bulk buyers and wholesale customers. We offer regular events and workshops to support you in sustainably and deliciously nourishing your body, mind and spirit with raw, organic superfoods.
Top of the Mountain Beef raises grass-fed beef on the SP Ranch in the Cypress Hills of southeastern Alberta. The ranch is comprised of 70% native grassland and 30% hayland with natural springs that form Middle Fork Creek. The cows are Galloway-Angus and the bulls are pure-bred Galloway. Our land and cattle are certified organic by Ecocert Canada!
Trail's End Beef is a fifth-generation family ranch in the beautiful Porcupine Hills of southern Alberta. We offer you natural grassfed, grass-finished beef raised in a way that is good for the land, good for the animals, and good for you.
Village Brewery began with friends sharing beers and dreams for a community brewery. A brewery that would support Calgary’s artists and craftspeople. A brewery that would create the excellent ales and lagers our friends and neighbors deserve. It takes a village to raise a beer. And a beer to raise a village.
Winter's Turkey farm is located approximately 30 km east of Calgary. The turkeys on our farm are raised humanely with high consideration for their comfort, health and well-being. They have plenty of space to range in the sunshine and fresh air. We raise free range, certified organic and heirloom turkeys.
Worms @ Work helps people live a more sustainable life through the practice of Vermicomposting. Our primary goals are teaching how to vermicompost , the benefits of reducing organic material in landfills, and the benefits of producing and using natural nutrient dense compost for growing any type of vegetation.
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