Welcome to our brand new our new online resource, a guide to shopping for environmentally friendly and socially responsible products. We present the various labels and certifications to look for and ingredient, process, packaging and disposability concerns on a category by category basis.ideas@greengroceryguide.ca

 

Our sampling of products within each category is not exhaustive, but rather is meant to examine the attributes of some of the available products. We invite you to suggest other green, sustainable and socially responsible products to help us grow our guide. 

 

Every product is going to have an impact on the environment. In our introduction to each category, we include information about the overall concerns and challenges faced by the producers and distributors.

Our rating system is relative – some of the products have done a better job of mitigating these concerns than others.

Green means going above and beyond the typical production and procurement process; yellow means that there are some sources, processes or ingredients of potential concern – or that some information is unavailable; and red indicates a warning that, in some manner, the product is not up to the “green” grade.


We base our evaluations on the information that the producer provides—we are unable to verify every claim. But that’s why we refer you to the organizations that have done the work for us: third party certifiers such as Local Food Plus and Canada Organic.

An eBay Canada study finds that that 64 per cent of Canadians wish there were more green options in the marketplace. Our research reveals that there are lots of products out there – you just need to know where to look.