Our Contributors
Publisher
Paul Cassel is the publisher of Our Green Home, and is President of Up Marketing, a sustainability focused marketing and communications company www.up-marketing.com.
Production Coordinator & Web Manager
Ariel Crawford is also Marketing Coordinator at Up Marketing (acrawford@up-marketing.com)
Green Grocery Guide Researcher
Celeste O’Neil is an MBA graduate of Schulich School of Business specializing in Business and Sustainability, with a BSc in Food Science from University of Guelph.
Partners
GreenHeroes is a web channel and TV series, produced by CineFocus Canada (TVO), that tells the story of change – of how people improved their lives, what their tipping point moments were and how they overcome obstacles to become a GreenHero. GreenHeroes.tvo.org
Writers
Meenu Deol has experience in communications, marketing and graphic design. She also teaches yoga in the GTA. Meenu is a former editor of Our Green Home Magazine (2011)
Jessica Lockhart is a Ryerson journalism grad and freelance writer living in Toronto. She is originally from northern Alberta.
Iffy Kazim is a business coach and consultant and Arbonne Independent Consultant. iffykazim.myarbonne.ca
Kevin Mercer is a contributing writer for Our Green Home. www.riversides.org
Cynthia McQueen is a former copy editor of Corporate Knights and a freelance journalist in Toronto. Previously Contributing Editor of Our Green Home. cynthia.mcqueen@gmail.com.
Melissa Shin is a former Managing Editor at Corporate Knights magazine. Previously managing Editor of the Green Grocery Guide
Jim Harris is a bestselling author, National Post columnist and management consultant, jimh@jimharris.com
Christina Bouchard works for the City of Toronto, Transportation Services.
Jeff Ranson is Sustainability Consultant with the Innovolve Group in Toronto and a manager with Sustainable Buildings Canada.
Charlotte Yun is a Toronto-based freelance writer and editor.
Tara Anderson is a yoga teacher, traveler and the owner of Creative Spirit Yoga.
Albert Kwon is an industrial designer with a passion for sustainability.
Angela Loder is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto studying green roofs and health.
Beatrice Olivastri is Chief Executive Officer of Friends of the Earth Canada which does not endorse products nor services. However, Bea, herself, is an old house enthusiast and serial renovator. More tips at www.foecanada.org
Toby Heaps is Publisher of Corporate Knights Magazine.
Jon-Erik Lappano is the former Assistant Editor and Multimedia Director at Corporate Knights Magazine.
Don Huff is President of Environmental Communications Options
Robert Furtado is a Toronto-based writer, and blogs for Toronto Life.
Christine Bruce is a Toronto-based writer, and blogs for Toronto Life.
Katie Sandwell studies food at York University and farms when she can.
Alixandra Gould is a freelance writer living and working in Toronto.
Nicholas Araya is a freelance writer living and working in Toronto.
Peter Ormond a green engineer, understands that every choice does matter. www.eco5.ca
Randy Tyrell is the Founder and Managing Director of
Toronto Greenhouse. www.torontogreenhouse.com
Connie Teplitsky gardening since a child Connie currently owns and operates a garden maintenance company, LandsKeep Horticultural Services. She loves to share her passion for gardening in any form. Currently she lives in Scarborough, Ontario in a tiny house with a big garden full of vegetables (in the summer anyway.
Julia Barnes is a former editorial assistant at Corporate Knights magazine and senior editor of the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series blog.
Azra Fazal is a researcher with Our Green Home and formerly Corporate Knights Magazine and is a student at the University of Waterloo.
Chris Winter is the executive director of the Conservation Council of Ontario.
Katie Fullerton is a former Regional Animator with EcoSpark. www.ecospark.ca
Anastasia Vaskova is a consultant/writer who increases consumer engagement with environmental practices.
Tom Rand focuses efforts on carbon mitigation and is active in Cleantech venture capital, technology incubation and commercialization and public advocacy. Tom is the Cleantech Practice, Lead Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District and sits on the board of a number of clean energy companies and organisations, including Morgan Solar. Tom is the also the author of “Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our Word”.





