Ariel
Marketing Coordinator
Posts by Ariel
Investing in a Green Future
Dec 2011
The City of Toronto launched Live Green Toronto four years ago to promote greener cities and neighbourhoods. One of their innovations was to invite community groups to bid on the contract for engaging the public. One contract, led by EcoSpark, has a team of nine “community animators” whose job is to help community groups take on green projects and engage their members.
Health Valley Organic Oat Bran Flakes
Dec 2011
This cereal is USDA Organic certified. It is available online and may be available in some specialty stores. No information was found on how it is produced. Health Valley has a vast range of products. While the majority of their products are organic, some are not, so read the label carefully. This cereal’s box has More >
23 Degrees Roastery
Dec 2011
This company decided early on in its existence to sell only fair trade and organic coffee; they felt that the social and environmental benefits associated outweighed the benefits that access to a broader variety of conventional coffee offered. They roast their coffee at their St. Regis Crescent North location in Toronto and retrofitted their roasting More >
Merchants of Green Coffee
Dec 2011
Merchants of Green Coffee specializes in the sourcing, importing and marketing of the highest quality certified green arabica coffees. It is a widely held belief that anything but freshly roasted coffee is not worth drinking and the Merchants help people drink freshly roasted coffee by providing home and industrial roasters with certified organic and fair More >
Camino Medium Roast Coffee
Dec 2011
This coffee, which is available at many specialty and health food stores, comes from the Camino Co-operative collection of small farms that produce only organic and Fair Trade coffee. The higher price that Fair Trade receives allows farmer to re-invest in their farms, making environmental, wage and educational improvements. It is roasted in Montreal at More >
North America’s Greenest Hotel
Dec 2011
When the long-abandoned building at 357 College went up for sale, Anthony Aarts, my business partner and old college friend, saw a chance to build Toronto’s greatest hostel. When he approached me as financial backer, I saw a chance to build North America’s greenest hostel. The two visions came together as “Planet Traveler.”
