We're thrilled to announce the next phase of the Zero Waste High-Rise Project! We took the lessons and best practices developed during our work with researchers and high-rise buildings and created an online step-by-step program to help more buildings reduce their waste and become zero waste leaders.

Read the EX20.7 Advancing the Community Benefits Framework

We’re looking at how hubs have used and adapted their physical buildings and grounds to provide crucial support during COVID-19, including providing space to organize emergency responses, growing produce for food distribution, or creating more accessible green space for the community.

For immediate release November 15, 2020

The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has worked to inform the City’s recovery plan and ensure it delivers a green and just recovery. We made submissions to TORR, individually and in partnership with front-line community organizations, and recently presented our response to the report to Mayor John Tory and the City’s Executive Committee.

Hundreds of community groups and thousands of residents have given feedback into the process of developing Toronto’s recovery plan. Now, the results are public. Will the City's reports and recommendations create a Recovery and Rebuild plan that delivers a just and green recovery? Read our analysis.

As the Province of Ontario announces new draft regulations for the Blue Box program, 7 environmental and civil society groups - including the Toronto Environmental Alliance - released a joint statement on Ontario’s draft Blue Box regulation.

On Friday, City Council voted on extending the operating contracts on five City-owned golf courses. Council voted to renew the contracts for two years - but after public pressure from organizations and individual residents, Council also voted to hold a public consultation, further open these parklands for free public use in the winter, and evaluate alternative recreational and community uses for these golf course parklands. Read more about what we won and what’s next.

In this new blog series, our Climate Campaigner Michael Polanyi is sharing stories and exploring some of the lessons that can be learned from community hubs about our city’s emergency response and how to build more resilient, low-carbon and equitable neighbourhoods.