Photo (left to right): Mark Powell (Water Power Group), Andrew Lanesmith (Enviro-Stewards), Bruce Taylor (Enviro-Stewards), Joyce Sou (MaRS), Sandra Reimer (Reimer Reason Communications), Nolan Andres (PeaceWorks Technology Solutions), Arlene Whitmore (Clean Focus Renewables).

Representatives and friends of several Ontario B Corps assembled at Enviro-Stewards’ Elmira office on February 14th to meet one another and to learn more about the B Corp movement in Canada.  Certified B Corporations are companies that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

Photo: Joyce Sou (MaRS) discusses the growth of B Corporations in Ontario.

Joyce Sou (Manager, B Corporation and Social Impact Metrics at MaRS Discovery District) provided an excellent overview of the current B Corp movement in Canada.  To date, there are 39 B Corps in Canada (20 in Ontario, 15 in BC, and 4 in Alberta).

The group also discussed ways to promote the B Corp movement and encourage companies to become certified B Corporations.  Local and national media coverage, as well as networking with suppliers and customers, were just a few of the ways that the B Corp movement can grow in Ontario.  If you would like to learn more about how to become a certified B Corporation, please visit the B Corp website here.

Photo: Mark Powell describes the services his company, Water Power Group, provides.

On February 9th, 2012, Enviro-Stewards was featured in B Corporation’s blog.

Click here or the image below to read the full post!

Enviro-Stewards Inc. and PeaceWorks were featured in the Kitchener Record and Guelph Mercury’s year end business retrospectives (December 31, 2011).  Among other things, the article reported on Enviro-Stewards’ services to

• help organizations and companies meet their sustainability goals,
• Reduce the amount of energy, water or chemicals they use or waste they generate
• Participate in international development work through Sustainability Credits, and
• Provide safe sustainable water and income generation in South Sudan

Click on the image below to read the full article or click here to download a PDF version:

Enviro-Stewards’ design for a Transit Bus Wash Rainwater Harvesting & Rinse Water Reclamation Project with the City of Guelph has been selected for funding as part of Ontario’s Showcasing Water Innovation Initiative.  Approximately $2 million will be provided by the Province to fund water projects in Guelph, including $89,100 for the Transit Bus Wash project.

A feature in the Guelph Mercury on this story was recently published on-line.

Bruce Taylor, President of Enviro-Stewards, participated in a media event celebrating this achievement (see photo below from the event).

Left to right: Guelph Mayor Karen Farbridge, MPP Liz Sandals, Bruce Taylor (President, Enviro-Stewards Inc.), Evan Pilkington (Innovation Lead at the Walkerton Clean Water Centre), Wayne Galliher (Water Conservation Project Manager, City of Guelph)

On November 17th, Envir0-Stewards was Featured in the Elmira Independent about our certification as a B Corporation.

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B Corp members sign the "Declaration of Interdependence" in front of the site where the USA’s Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

As described on the B Corporation website:

“Certified B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

B Corps, unlike traditional businesses:

1. Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards;
2. Meet higher legal accountability standards
3. Build business constituency for good business.”

B corporations have third-party certified benefits for society and the environment.  Enviro-Stewards scored in the “Area of Excellence” (over 60%) in every category. Our “B Impact Report” is shown in the image to the right (our full B Corp webpage can be found here).

Enviro-Stewards' B Corp Score

Bruce Taylor (president of Enviro-Stewards) and Reg Snyder (the company’s CFO) recently attended a B corporation workshop in Pennsylvania to meet other members of certified B Corporations.  The movement is rapidly growing in the US, where there are now 468 certified B Corps as well as several states with B Corp legislation.  Currently there are only 20 certified B Corps in Canada.  The photo below was taken in front of the site where the USA’s Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.  In front of this historic site, each member of the group signed B Corp’s Declaration of Interdependence.

Enviro-Stewards has recently been featured in the local media due to their participation in this movement:

• Media Release
• Elmira Independent
• ChristianWeek
• Waterloo Chronicle
• Footcircles.com

Please feel free to contact Bruce Taylor or Lloyd Hipel at (519) 578-5100 at Enviro-Stewards to learn more about B Corporations.

Enviro-Stewards was retained by Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) to assist with the design and implementation of drinking water source protection measures in the Mississauga area.  Three industrial/commercial sites participated in the program, and the pollution prevention measures that Enviro-Stewards facilitated are detailed in recently published case studies.

The case studies can be downloaded by clicking on the following links:

• Armstrong Manufacturing Inc.
• Bernardi Construction Company Ltd.
• Unifay-Fedar Investments

Enviro-Stewards also recently assisted in leading tours of the above facilities during CVC’s “Making it Work” conference.  Photos from the site tours can be viewed below.

Dave (Armstrong Manufacturing) explains his company's reasons for participating in the source protection project.

Bruce Taylor (Enviro-Stewards) and the rest of the tour participants at the Bernardi site.

A spill containment sump installed at Bernardi's truck fuelling station.

Ted (Unifay-Fedar) explains the source protection measures implemented on his property.

Once again, Enviro-Stewards shut its office for the day on August 24th to participate in its annual Habitat for Humanity Build in Kitchener, Ontario.

This year we were very pleased to again be joined by our friends from the Guelph Food Technology Centre (GFTC) and Toyota Boshoku.

Below are some pictures from the day.

(Back row, left to right): Brad (GFTC), Scott (GFTC), Alicia (E-S), Bruce (E-S), Andrew (E-S), Darrin (E-S), Deepak (E-S), Carlin (E-S), Lloyd (E-S), Djuradj (Toyota Boshoku); (Front row, left to right): Nadia (GFTC), Christine (E-S), Maria (GFTC), Jon (GFTC). Missing from photo: Ed (E-S), Cheryl (E-S).

(Left to right) Bruce, Alicia & Carlin from Enviro-Stewards

The construction site.

Enviro-Stewards recently completed a multimedia Pollution Prevention (P2) and Energy Efficiency (E2) Assessment of Chudleigh’s Ltd.’s production facility located in Milton, Ontario.  Chudleigh’s is a privately-owned commercial bakery that sells its products domestically and internationally.  The results of the assessment are now available through a public case study published by the Toronto Region Sustainability Program (TRSP), who co-funded the P2 portion of the project.  A PDF of the case study can be downloaded from the TRSP website here.

Enviro-Stewards was subsequently retained by Chudleigh’s to assist them in completing Walmart’s Supplier Sustainability Assessment, which involved calculating and reporting the facility’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

Highlights of the P2 & E2 assessment include:

• $15,000/year in potential savings by diverting peels & juice from sanitary sewer
• $23,000/year in potential savings by sending organic waste directly to compost or animal feed
• $21,000/year saved by repairing malfunctioning microwave cooling water valve
• Refer to case study for additional results

Enviro-Stewards’ founder has been contributing to PepsiCo Foods’ journey to Net Zero through Engineering Design Summits.  On June 24, 2011, Enviro-Stewards hosted Frito Lay Cambridge’s Net Zero Water Strategy Team in their new Boardroom.

“We at PepsiCo Foods Canada held Engineering design Summits at the University of Waterloo Campus in the summer of 2009 and spring of 2011 with the goal of advancing Sustainability Engineering for its facilities and processes to a goal that we call “Net Zero”.

We were grateful to have the participation of Bruce Taylor and Enviro Stewards (along with other select industry experts) who are creative out of the box thinkers that we will continue to work with as we work towards this bold goal in the future.

Bruce and Enviro Stewards have impressed us with their engineering expertise in many areas including water conservation and process water treatment methods and systems.”

- Helmi Ansari, Director Sustainability and Productivity, PepsiCo Foods Canada

Enviro-Stewards’ office is located in a renovated 100 year old Furniture factory in Elmira, Ontario.  During 2011, our staff grew by more than 25% and additional floorspace became available to us.  This space includes a new boardroom with sustainable design features such as:

• Conference Table by Calstone – 0% to Landfill Guarantee
• A lighting retrofit to reduce total fixture amp draw by 50%
• Daylighting by independently switching the bank of lights adjacent to the window
• Upgraded windows and reuse of the original exterior (single pane) windows as interior windows to permit daylighting of the interior side of the board room

Frito Lay Cambridge Net Zero Water Strategy Session Participants:

Helmi Ansari, Director Sustainability and Productivity

Ryan Verschuere, Sustainability Intern

Bruce Taylor, President, Enviro-Stewards

Ryan Merrick, Sustainability Resource