Canada’s top 30 greenest employers

Maclean’s has published, for the first time ever, Canada’s 30 greenest employers. I’m excited to see this but honestly quite disappointed on the highlights for these companies.  I have included the list of companies and the links go to their respective “green highlights”.  It’s great to have policies like: employees can control their light (sask power) and employees gets rebates from the employer for purchasing high efficiency furnaces and hybrid cars (; it’s also great to have written plans to reduce energy consumption or purchase certified wood whenever possible.  But I’m just a little disappointed that they didn’t find any company that does anything above and beyond.  Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I was hoping to see policies that allows the employees to be part of the energy/ carbon footprint reduction activities at work through activities such as evaluating energy efficient heating/cooling systems (a huge carbon foot print for Canadian companies), reviewing building performance and develop energy efficiency measures, and last but not the least - publish and target GHG emissions and emission goals.  All these activities at work and then be translated to a smaller scale at home - big companies CAN make a big difference! I also think engaging employees’ families and communities at large is also a worthwhile activity that I didn’t see on the list…  But hey, i guess we start somewhere.  I hope next year the highlights will be more impressive.

Town of Banff
Bayer Inc.
B.C. Public Service
Busby, Perkins & Will Architects Inc.
Cascades Inc.
Enmax Corp.
Fairmont Hotels Inc.
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
HOK Canada Inc.
IBM Canada Ltd.
IKEA Canada LP
Intrawest ULC at Whistler Blackcomb
Jacques Whitford Ltd.
KPMG LLP
McGill University
Nature’s Path Foods Inc.
New Flyer Industries Canada ULC
Rescan Environmental Services Ltd.
Royal Bank of Canada
SAS Institute Canada Inc.
Sapient Canada, Inc.
SaskEnergy Inc.
SaskTel
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto Hydro Corp.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc.
University of Alberta
Vancity Group
Zerofootprint Inc.

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