PHP4 Climate Action is honoured to receive this award!
TEA Greener City for All Award
Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) held their annual Greener City for All event at the Cecil
Street Community Centre on Tuesday December 3rd.
This is TEA's annual end of year fundraiser / celebration which brings together environmental
and community groups, TEA supporters and collaborators and often a few elected officials.
This year Councillor Gord Perks, MPP Jessica Bell and our mayor Olivia Chow attended.
The event is also an opportunity to recognize some of the outstanding work that TEA is involved with. This year the award went to the team who worked with TEA’s waste campaigner, Emily Alfred during the summer of 2023. The team was organized by Emily, Rafaela Gutierrez, the U of T Trash Team lead, Lee Adamson from Green Neighbours Network (GNN) and Vince Schutt, a behavioural change specialist at Enviromentum. It included members of Scarborough Environmental Alliance & Zero Waste, the St Lawrence Market Waste Reduction and our own Green13 and PHP4 Climate Action groups.
The project involved hiring Canada Summer Jobs interns and training them to interview local business owners about the city’s plan to eliminate 5 single use items and to encourage them to allow BYO cups/containers/bags in order to reduce waste and save money. It was a great learning opportunity, as well as a community builder, for all involved. We are proud to have been a part of this project and to be recognized for our efforts.
To learn more about the project check out: UofT Trash Team or GNN page.