Sustainability : Featured Stories

Toronto is quickly becoming known as a city with a soft spot for meat. The local butcher shop is becoming more popular by the day, offering organic and local options to savvy clientele who are mindful of where their next meal comes from.

Kealan Sullivan spends a lot of time at the local dry cleaners. You could say it's the boardroom of her 69 Vintage Collective empire, where between giant loads of new-old clothes, she's leading Toronto's vintage scene in new directions.

A new array of solar panels on the roof of U of T's Athletic Centre marks the beginning of a new era for sustainable development on campus where the University has started to engage its undergraduates in designing and implementing their own projects through the Sustainability Office.

When a young couple sent their child to daycare with his own nutritious and tasty lunches, they didn't know that a few years later they'd be feeding thousands and changing the attitudes of kids, parents and teachers toward the food they eat daily.

Frustrated by the problems and oversight in the bicycle market, an Annex bike store manager designed a bicycle specifically for Toronto's geography and climate, realized he'd found a niche need, and started manufacturing and selling the two-wheeler across North America.

A mile of pipe zig-zags under College Street in order to transfer heat from the Earth into the rooms of "the greenest hotel in North America." For general contractor Anthony Aarts, an innovative project like this is the build of a lifetime.

Morgan Solar is a family business that plans to revolutionize the solar energy industry. Is 2010 the year they make good on that promise?

A Q&A and photo tour of the Fair Trade Jewellery Company where faith, integrity and a family legacy are the forces behind this local ethical business.

Furniture-maker Lubo Brezina is busy turning other people's junk into functional art and furniture on Dundas West.

Toronto's posse of community animators inject strategy and know-how into the ambitions of eco-activists. The City of Toronto's new $10-million, five-year Live Green Community Animators Program hopes to facilitate information and resource sharing.