Blog TO: Tim

On February 26th, Zerofootprint and Mayor Miller officially unveiled Zerofootprint Toronto, a web site that lets residents, businesses, neighbourhood and community groups measure, track and reduce their carbon footprint. It was the latest in a string of community focused tools that empower individuals and organizations across the world take steps to combat climate change.

To date this Toronto-based non-for-profit (their offices are at 862 Richmond Street West) has won awards and acclaim for a variety of web-based tools like their One Minute Calculator. Today we’re adding to their trophy case as we announce they’ve been voted Best Green Organization in our recent Best of Toronto survey. Zerofootprint beat out strong competition from Toronto-based green organizations including Planet in Focus, Bike Pirates, Green Shift and Green Enterprise Toronto.

Keep reading to learn more about Zerofootprint in my Q&A with Zerofootprint Communications Manager Samantha Newton.

For those who aren’t familiar, can you describe what it is that Zerofootprint does?

Zerofootprint is a registered Canadian not-for-profit. Our goal is to mobilize and empower large groups of individuals and organizations worldwide, to reduce their collective carbon and ecological footprint. We do this by harnessing the power of social networking, the Internet and software.

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