Tim Adamson is the Manager Sustainable Energy at Enbridge Gas Distribution and has worked in the energy sector for 20 years. In his current role, part of his responsibilities include preparing Enbridge Gas Distribution’s annual greenhouse gas inventory, which form part of the company’s mandatory and voluntary public GHG reporting requirements. Enbridge Gas Distribution is a past winner (2009) of the Green Toronto Award for the hybrid fuel cell technology located at its head office in Toronto.

Maggie Ballantyne, EcoSchools Student Leadership Facilitator, works under a partnership with the Toronto District School Board and Evergreen. Working closely with secondary teachers and students, Maggie provides expertise to schools pursuing EcoSchools certification. She supports environmental leadership opportunities by hosting educational workshops, annual conferences and coordinating the Students of Toronto for Environmental Progress (STEP) youth council. Outside of this role, Maggie is a volunteer board member for Deepwater Experiential Education Project (DEEP) - a non-profit organization providing economically-disadvantaged youth with scholarships for wilderness programs in North America. Maggie holds a Masters of Environmental Education from Griffith in Australia and B.Ed. from Queen's University.

Candice Batista is the host, creator and producer of A Greener Toronto TV series airing on Rogers TV. She is an environmentalist and green living advocate who has dedicated her life to animal rights and the environment. Before creating A Greener Toronto, Candice spent almost 4 years at The Weather Network working with leaders in both the meteorology and climatology fields. In 2007, Candice was endorsed by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, certifying her expertise in the scientific breakdown and communication of weather patterns. From her new in-depth understanding of global weather patterns, Candice became increasingly distraught with global warming and climate change. Her love of the natural world and all its inhabitants led her to create and develop her own environment show.

A "Greener Toronto" was born out of Candice's deep desire to open people's eyes to the realities of today's world. With her show, Candice wants to honor those people and businesses who are trying to make changes in the world. Live greener lives, as well as inspire others how they can do the same. Along with her work, Candice is also an active volunteer with numerous organizations within the environmental community.

Rebecca Black is the founder and owner of Black Current, a consulting company dedicated to marketing a sustainable future for organizations that seek to balance social, ecological, and economic returns. Rebecca has developed a number of stakeholder engagement strategies and social marketing campaigns, as well as 'green' brand development and event marketing for a diverse array of clients.

Rebecca’s most recent ventures have included sponsorship, marketing and event management for the sold-out Green Energy Act Finance Forum (Jan 29, 2010) at which over 300 Bay Street financiers gathered to learn about the risks and rewards of investing in Ontario’s new green energy economy; the 2009 North American debut of the CitiesAlive World Green Roof Infrastructure Congress, at which 450 international and regional delegates shared green roof research, case studies and best practices; and the 2008 World Wind Energy Conference, which drew 800 participants from 40 countries around the world to Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Paul Bubelis is the Executive Director of the Sustainability Network, an environmental support centre serving Ontario, the Prairies and the Atlantic, which he co-founded in 1997. Prior to his work here, he served as executive director of the Ontario Environment Network and spent five years at Environment Canada managing the community funding programs of the Ontario Region. He sits on the board of the Clean Air Partnership (Toronto Atmospheric Fund Foundation) and Earth Day Canada. Paul obtained a master's degree in science from the University of Toronto.

Chris Chopik is known as a go to expert on Green Real Estate issues. He is a tireless advocate for Home Energy Labeling, Safe Streets for all users, Urban Forest issues, Renewable Energy and Quality of Life. In his real estate business he helps clients choose locations that reduce car dependency and free time for other more pleasurable pursuits. When teaching at the Toronto Real Estate Board Chris encourages his fellow Realtors to become "agents of change", by communicating that "future friendly houses are worth more", printing on FSC and post consumer recycled paper and becoming a Carbon Neutral AgentT. Chris has served as a volunteer on several boards and advisory committees including LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests), Toronto Real Estate Board's Green Task Force, Green Enterprise Ontario (GET), Conservation Council of Ontario, West Toronto Initiative for Solar Energy, Green Neighbours Community Action in Ward 21, Power To Choose, Pledge To Green, and Green Energy Act Alliance. Chris is also a sought after writer and public speaker focused on home energy efficiency and quality of life issues related to real estate.

Cam Collyer has been the Manager of the Evergreen's award-winning Learning Grounds Program since 1997. The program helps Canadian schools to green their school grounds through a national network of design professionals, grants, research and a large suite of publications. Most of Cam's work has been in the field of environmental education and includes sitting on the board of Green Teacher magazine, past steering committee member of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation's Green Street program, and work with the North York Board of Education, the Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School, and Peterborough's Kawartha World Issues Centre. Cam speaks regularly on topics of school ground greening, environmental education, and building the relationship between children and nature.

Luke Connell is a director of The Haynes Connell Foundation, which is housed at the Toronto Community Foundation. He is a co-founder of a new company, Midpoint Group Inc., based in Toronto and supporting the recruiting needs of Canadian companies engaged primarily in the manufacturing field. Luke graduated from St. Mary's University, Halifax where he focussed on environmental and international development studies. He has previously served as a volunteer jury member of the Toronto Community Foundation Vital Sign awards. He also served six months as a volunteer program coordinator with Right To Play in Uganda.

Michael Curry is a Managing Partner of Investeco Capital - a private equity firm focused on acquiring interests in profitable, private, North American companies in the healthy food, renewable energy, water and waste technology sectors. Michael's responsibilities at Investeco include identifying investment opportunities, assisting with due diligence and the analysis of investment candidates, and helping drive company growth strategies once an investment has been made. Michael is vice chairman of the board of Organic Meadow Inc., Canada's largest organic dairy company and a portfolio company in Investeco's first fund. Formerly, Michael was co-owner/operator of a successful building materials distribution business and spent seven years in the reforestation industry.

Grant Gordon is founder and creative director of Key Gordon Communications Inc., a Toronto-based advertising & design firm dedicated to all things eco. In 2001, after working at several ad agencies in Toronto and Montreal, Grant broke away from the mainstream to found Key Gordon with partner Key Publishers. Since Key Gordon's inception, Grant has stuck slavishly to his firm's motto, "Branding the good guys." Key Gordon's portfolio of work ranges from branding for energy conservation programs to organic food, alternative energy, air filtration, water purification and several ENGOs. Two years ago, Grant led the team at Key Gordon in creating the award-winning FLICK OFF global warming activism campaign. Grant lives in Toronto with another green at heart, Gill Deacon, and their three young boys.

Rob Grand is the owner of Grassroots Environmental Products, Toronto's largest green lifestyle retailer. Grassroots started in 1994 as a small store in the Annex and has since expanded to include two stores, an e-commerce website, wholesale and commercial sales divisions, and environmental consulting services. Grassroots won a Market Transformation Green Toronto Award. Prior to opening Grassroots, Rob spent many years working with non-profit environmental organizations in various capacities. In his 18 years of environmental work, Rob has become a leading advocate, spokesperson, and educator on green lifestyle products and issues. He has served as a director of several environmental organizations, and currently volunteers as a director with the Coalition for a Green Economy, Green Enterprise Toronto, and the Local Food Plus Foundation.

Roscoe Handford found that what was valuable about being a Voice -- an actor who voices commercials and TV segments -- wasn't necessarily what made life valuable, so she looked to her community to help her, and discovered that the TTC Wycwood Carhouses were in danger of being torn down, so she got involved. From giving tours for Doors Open Toronto to manning the bake oven on the site for two years, Roscoe became a Community Animator and is now the Manager of The Stop's Green Barn Farmers Market. The year 'round Green Barn Market is helping thousands of acres of Ontario to be farmed sustainably, and serves not only the neighbours around the 'barns, but also each community from whence hail all the local farmers who made the market the number One market in Toronto this year, according to NOW Magazine. Roscoe also serves on the board of Artscape and continues to enjoy helping to animate the imaginative Artscape Wychwood Barns whenever possible.

Sunday Harrison is the Executive Director of Green Thumbs Growing Kids, a charity operating hands-on gardening, nature and food programs for inner-city children, which she founded as a project in 1999. She is a gardener and educator, with a professional background in landscape and graphic design. Sunday volunteers on the boards of Environmental Education Ontario and FoodCycles Urban Farm. She believes in an environmental movement that is fully inclusive of all persons regardless of income, age, race, gender or status in Canada, and supports a green economic vision that fully honours and recognizes the important role of skilled tradespeople in design and construction. She is a parent of two boys.

Franz Hartmann, Executive Director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has been advocating for a green Toronto since 1990 when he first volunteered with TEA. In 1998, after eight years of studying and participating in urban environmental politics in Toronto, he received his PhD in Environmental Politics from York University. In 1998, he also became the Environmental Advisor to Councillor Jack Layton. Since then, Franz has been involved in advocating green energy, smog, waste management and green economy solutions at the municipal and federal levels. Highlights include helping write the City of Toronto's first-ever Environmental Plan and helping develop a Kyoto Implementation Strategy for Canada. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto's Centre for the Environment.

Walter Kraus is Senior Director of Environmental Affairs Loblaw Companies Limited and George Weston Limited. Walter is a Professional Engineer, graduating with a B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Walter has been with the Weston/Loblaw organization since 1988 and has led the Environmental Program since 1990. Within the Weston and Loblaw businesses, Walter has established an industry-leading environmental metrics monitoring program that supports Weston’s compliance and environmental sustainability efforts. Within Loblaw, Walter is a member of the Loblaw Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and supports that business in achieving its CSR objectives and targets. Walter is Chair of the National Environmental Committee of the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors and the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers. Walter is also a member of the Sustainability Leadership Committee of the Food Marketing Institute.

Monica E. Kuhn, BES, BArch, OAA apprenticed in architectural offices in Austria and California, before settling in Toronto to work with now Architects Alliance for five years, prior to establishing her own practice in 1994. Over the years, the small firm has become known for its residential, environmental, and green roof / rooftop garden design. Monica has been instrumental in launching the green roof movement in Canada, and is currently a Board Member for Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. She has co-authored several research papers on green roof technology, and has taught and lectured throughout North America on urban greening issues and permaculture. Monica is active in Toronto's Green Community, and has consulted for various local organizations.

Chris Lowry, M.Ed. is the Network Director of Green Enterprise Toronto (GET), an alliance of local, independent values-based businesses and customers. GET is the Toronto network of the international Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). Chris is an entrepreneur who has founded and managed both independent media production businesses and non-profit organizations. As a specialist in information, education, and communications he has won many awards for his work. He co-founded Street Kids International, and has also worked to promote the use of nature-based expressive arts with children as a mode of social and environmental regeneration. In 2004 he completed a Masters in Philosophy of Education at OISE. He recently served on the faculty of the Institute Without Boundaries, at George Brown City College School of Design.

Ben Marans is the Manager of Grants & Special Projects for the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. Working with all sectors of the community, and with city departments and agencies, TAF leverages its resources to develop innovative local actions that lead to significant emission reductions. Prior to joining TAF, Ben was the Project Coordinator for smartliving St. Lawrence, a successful community sustainability pilot project in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood. Ben provided local residents with the leadership and resources they needed to help make their community a greener, healthier place to live. smartliving St. Lawrence won a 2007 Green Toronto Award and established a framework for other Toronto neighbourhoods. In his spare time, Ben serves on the board of the Conservation Council of Ontario.

Janet McCausland is the principle of I get it done, a consultancy that offers strategic and communications services to businesses that are moving towards sustainability. With relevant partners, she advises companies on how to go authentically green, and then helps to communicate their progress to key stakeholders. She motivates people to build sustainable and rewarding enterprises by raising awareness about environmental issues and implementing practical solutions.

A passionate green that inspires others, Janet's background includes developing programs such as The Green Toronto Awards, The Natural Burial Association, the re-branding of an ENGO to better reflect their mission and launching a $12.4m national millennium initiative.

Janet McKay is the founder and Executive Director of LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests). Janet began working in various environmental education positions with organizations such as Pollution Probe and the Women's Network on Health and the Environment. In 1996 she started a small, tree seedling distribution project. Twelve years later that project has grown to become LEAF, a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to protecting and improving Toronto's urban forest. In 2003, Janet received the Arboriculture Award of Merit from the International Society of Arboriculture for her work in community-based urban forestry. In 2005 LEAF was selected as one of Toronto's "Vital Ideas" by the Toronto Community Foundation. In 2007, LEAF won a Green Toronto Award in the Education and Awareness category.

Kevin McLaughlin is President of AutoShare, Toronto's smart alternative to owning a car. He has been active in developing urban environmental solutions for over 15 years, including co-founding Vancouver's Co-operative Auto Network and Evergreen, a national non-profit Bringing Nature Back to our Cities initiative. Kevin also helped to launch Vancouver Television. He lives in Toronto's Cabbagetown.

Joyce McLean is the Director of Strategic Issues at Toronto Hydro Corporation. Joyce has spent almost 30 years in the environmental field, including as Toronto Hydro’s communications and policy lead for renewable energy including a proposed Lake Ontario offshore wind development and North America’s first urban wind turbine co-owned with WindShare Co-operative, at Exhibition Place. She has also served as a senior political policy advisor to two Ontario Environment Ministers, the Ontario representative on the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board, the Bi-National Great Lakes campaign director for Greenpeace International, and Chair of the Canadian Wind Energy Association. Joyce is also a self-employed policy consultant and writer on environmental issues. Educated in political science, marketing, negotiations and journalism, Joyce makes her home in Toronto.

Tim Neeb: Tim is the president of Mahogany Management, a real estate development firm that specializes in developing and managing quality supportive and affordable housing in the City of Toronto. With his many years of experience, Tim knows that it is important that affordable housing is functional, long lasting and designed with long term economic viability in mind. Friendly, green community space is essential. Tim recognizes that being environmentally and socially responsible through developing sustainable buildings is good for his tenants and good for his business. He continues to research new ways to meet his environmental aspirations in the development of affordable housing. Mahogany Management was the 2009 winner of the Green Toronto Awards for green roofs.

Michael Pires, PEng, is manager of Enermodal Engineering's Toronto office and has extensive experience in sustainable design, building energy analysis, and renewable energy. Recently, Michael has served as the sustainability consultant on the 222 Jarvis St. office complex (LEED Gold candidate), Tom Taylor Place social housing (LEED Silver candidate), and the CUPE National Headquarters (LEED Gold certified).

Enermodal Engineering is Canada's largest green building consultant, with offices in Kitchener, Calgary, Edmonton, Denver, and Toronto. Operating since 1980, Enermodal is the only full service consultant in the country, providing LEED certification, energy efficiency engineering, commissioning, building performance monitoring, green master plans, green building education program development, window rating, and mechanical/electrical design. Enermodal has certified five times more LEED Canada buildings than any other firm.

Chris Winter is a conserver, both professionally and personally. As Executive Director for the Conservation Council of Ontario, with a Masters in Environmental Studies and 23 years of experience, Chris is one of Ontario's leading advocates for conservation. He is currently spearheading an initiative called "We Conserve" to create a united conservation movement in Ontario. He helped found and currently chairs the Ontario Smart Growth Network; he developed Jane's Walk as a community event to celebrate Jane Jacob's vision; he created the Doors Closed and Lighten Up campaigns to promote energy conservation by stores and homes; he helped design the Citizens Bank Green Mortgage to assist homeowners with energy retrofits; and he has designed Community Action Plans as a simple approach to involving community groups as partners in conservation.

Dathe Wong, Associate, Stantec Architecture Ltd., brings over 14 years of design and construction experience in a variety of building types and scales. A primary focus of his professional practice has been the exploration of the critical relationship between Architecture and the City. Over the past six years, Dathe has furthered his exploration to include elements of sustainable design and environmental building strategies. Dathe is actively involved with the promotion, research and education of design professionals with regard to sustainable practice and green building strategies. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, member of the Toronto Chapter of the Canadian Green Building Council, Member of the Environmental Committee and Green Building Committee for the Toronto Construction Association.