Take action...   Organize Ourselves...  

The CCO...

 Home  

 

We Conserve!

Be a Conserver

Be a Leader

Be an Innovator

  

Community Action Plans

 Provincial Strategy   About Us

Join Us

About Us    Our Sponsors    Members Section (external link)


About Us
The Conservation Council of Ontario is a provincial association of conservation leaders working together to support the voluntary transition to a conserver society in Ontario. Our members practice and support conservation, and are conservation leaders in their field of expertise.

As a Council, we promote networking, collaboration, and innovative ways to make conservation easy, affordable, and desirable.  Through our programs, we seek to be a catalyst for the positive social and economic change we see happening around us.

Around the world, all jurisdictions are talking of the need for sustainable development.  Few, if any, have an institution comparable to the Conservation Council of Ontario with a mandate to support a coordinated and collaborative voluntary transition strategy.

Contact Us

   Our Members
 Listed below are our organization, business, and municipal members.  For a complete list and directory of our members, please visit our members site (external link).

Organizations

  1. AGCare (Agriculture Groups Concerned About the Environment)
  2. American Fisheries Society (Southern Ontario Chapter)
  3. Bruce Peninsula Environment Group
  4. Bruce Trail Conservancy
  5. Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention
  6. Canadian Institute of Forestry (S. Ont. Section) link to the CIF main page
  7. Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors -- Ontario Branch 
  8. Canadian Land Reclamation Association - Ontario
  9. Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists - Ontario Chapter
  10. Canoe Ontario
  11. Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
  12. Clean Water Foundation
  13. Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario
  14. Durham Sustain Ability
  15. Earth Day Canada
  16. EnviroCentre (Ottawa)
  17. Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations
  18. Friends of the Don East
  19. Green Enterprise Ontario
  20. Green Trans (Oakville)
  21. Greenest City (Toronto)
  22. LEAF (Local Enhancement through Appreciation of Forests)
  23. Living Green (Environmental Action Barrie)
  24. Local Food Plus
  25. Oakville Green
  26. Ontario Camps Association
  27. Ontario Federation of Agriculture
  28. Ontario Federation of Labour
  29. Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
  30. Ontario Horticultural Association
  31. Ontario Institute of Agrologists
  32. Ontario Landscape Alliance
  33. Ontario Professional Planners Institute
  34. Organic Food Conferences Canada
  35. Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
  36. SHARE (Simcoe Huronia Association for Renewable Energy)
  37. Sierra Club of Canada (Ontario Chapter)   link to the national site
  38. Soil and Water Conservation Society  link to the SCWS main page
  39. Summerhill Impact (formerly the Clean Air Foundation)
  40. The Sustainability Network
  41. Toronto Zoo
  42. Waste Diversion Toronto/Canada
  43. Water Environment Association of Ontario
  44. Wildlands League
  45. Women's Healthy Environments Network
  46. Workers Health and Safety Centre

 

Member Businesses (new category)

  1. ECO Building Resource Ltd.
  2. Grun Canada

  3. REGEN Energy

 

Member Municipalities (new category)

  1. The Town of Oakville
  2. The City of Oshawa

 


Members website

Our membership is growing, our movement is growing. 

No surprise then that the demand for networking and opportunities to work together on collaborative projects and and policy recommendations.

Our members website is a place where you can connect with our members, or apply for membership and participate in discussion forums on conservation issues and policy.

The Conservation Council of Ontario
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 132
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 2C7

p: 416-533-1635
e: cco(at)web.ca

Our Board
The Council is managed through a twelve person board of directors, elected from the Council's membership.
 
President  Logman Azar
 
Vice-President Ellen Greenwood
 
Vice-President Dr. Ashifa Jiwa
 
Secretary Karen Sun
 
Treasurer Anthony Marshall
 
Past President vacant
 
Directors Chantal Brundage
  Rick Byun
  Ayal Lesh
  Suzanne Madder
  Tony McQuail
  Kristopher Stevens
 
 


Our Staff

Chris Winter, Executive Director
 416-533-1635 ext 1
chris(at)weconserve.ca

Chris Winter has over twenty five years experience in environmental strategic planning, research, and communications. He holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. 

Chris practices conservation in his home life with his family. They live in an Energuide rated home in a diverse and healthy community in Toronto. They have energy efficient appliances and lighting, have no car, are members of Autoshare, the Ontario Natural Food Cooperative and Windshare, support regional organic farms, have a naturalized, pesticide free yard, and avoid hazardous household products.  Their self-assessed eco rating is 91/100.  Not bad, but still with room to improve.


 Vicki Faul, Bookkeeper
416-533-1635 ext 2
vicki(at)weconserve.ca
Vicki knows the Conservation Council well.  She was the office manager in the early 1990's, and has returned to us on a part-time basis as our bookkeeper.
 
Vicki has spent many years working in the charitable sector with financial management experience at Sketch, St. Andrew's United Church, Energy Probe, the Conservation Council of Ontario, and the Ontario Council for International Coopreation. She studied at both Seneca and Centennial Colleges and has volunteered for a number of charities including Second Harvest, the World Wildlif Fund and the Canadian Red Cross. She is passionate about environmental issues.


 
Project Staff and Interns
The Council regularly hires project staff and interns to help develop the organization and our programs.  If you've seen the updated Community Action Manual and program, that was largely due to the work of Julia Ford.  And our work on the Live Green Toronto city-wide network was given a tremendous boost by Annie He, an intern out of the University of Waterloo Co-op program.


Allies
We are also indebted to our allies and pro bono supporters, including Environmental Communication Options and Tenzing Communications, who assist us in promoting the Council and conservation.