• Has natural volcanic mineral for drying power instead of parabens and aluminum salts
• Won’t leave white marks on your clothes
• Contain a blend of essential oils which provide a natural anti-bacterial effect
• Features skin-caring organic Community Trade aloe vera sourced from Guatemala & Community Trade alcohol sourced from Ecuador, created from organic sugar cane juice

Starbucks Canada is asking Canadians to join them to Pledge to do some Green this summer as part of the company’s support for Evergreen’s stewardship and restoration program, which brings people together with nature to restore, protect and steward public green spaces across the country.

Consumers who make a formal pledge at www.facebook.com/starbuckscanada to devote time to green their local community and inspire others to do the same will receive a free tall cup of Pike’s Place roast at participating Starbucks locations across Canada. Consumer's can also get green ideas and also find out more information on Evergreen.

This year’s partnership also includes a commitment by 600 Starbucks partners (employees) to contribute at least 2000 hours at six launch events across the country to get their hands dirty and assist Evergreen in a variety of stewardship and restoration activities across the country, including planting and grounds maintenance.

Consumers are also encouraged to visit www.evergreen.ca for helpful tips and ideas on the different ways people can do their part to make their local community a greener place.

In collaboration with Transport Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Frito Lay Canada, a division of PepsiCo Canada, is the country's first food manufacturer to introduce zero-emission electric vehicles into its delivery fleet. Six vehicles will be based at Frito Lay Canada’s major distribution centres across the country – three in Brampton (ON), one in Ottawa (ON), one in Surrey (BC) and one in Laval (QC).

The zero-emission electric vehicles were made by Smith Electric Vehicles, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric vehicles, and each has a 60 kilometre per day range which meets the daily kilometre needs of the majority of the routes from the designated distribution centres. The six electric vehicles will be powered by electricity from the grid, offset by renewable energy credits, and at the end of the battery lifespan (3-5 years or longer) they will be returned to Smith Electric for recycling.

The goals at Frito Lay Canada are clear: use less water, electricity and fuels while reducing waste from everything the company makes, moves and sells. In addition to the introduction of the electric vehicles into its delivery fleet, Frito Lay Canada has:
- Reduced the total distance travelled by delivery trucks by 3 per cent (1 million kilometres) in 2009 by optimizing delivery routes.
- Reduced manufacturing fuel consumption by more than 20 per cent since 1999 per kilogram of snacks produced.
- Reduced water consumption by over 30 per cent per unit since 1999, saving 5.4 billion litres of water through changes in manufacturing plants.
- Reused approximately 40 million shipping cartons since 1999 which is equivalent to more than 300,000 trees saved annually and more than 2 million trees saved since 1999.
- In 2009, diverted more than 92 per cent of manufacturing waste from landfills into recycling and re-use streams, and are striving for over 99 per cent Landfill diversion (1 per cent or less of the waste going to landfill).
- Introduced the world’s first 100 per cent compostable chip bag innovation with the SunChips® brand.

Waterfront Toronto is conducting a soil recycling pilot as part of its Soils Management Strategy to determine the viability of treating and reusing impacted soils as an alternative to the dig-and-dump approach. The pilot facility is strategically located in the Port Lands to be able to treat soils near their source, divert soils from landfill, and provide Waterfront Toronto with a source of treated soil that can be used in revitalization projects.

Remediation efforts within the waterfront include the excavation and removal of contaminated soil, which is expected to generate in excess of two-million cubic metres of impacted soil. Soil treatment, remediation, and reuse will prevent the excavated soil from being transported and disposed of in landfill.

The pilot will process up to 50,000 cubic metres of soils in the pilot phase of operation employing the newest and best technologies available to treat contaminated soils. The pilot proponents, DEC and Tetra Tech, will use soil washing, complemented by field trials of a number of other cutting-edge technologies. Soil-washing is a technology that has been successfully used to promote the recycling of soils in several other countries.

The pilot allows Waterfront Toronto to better assess the environmental, economic and operational viability of treating and reusing soils before committing to a full-scale recycling facility. The goals of the pilot are to identify a range of treatment options and costs of remediating soil; confirm that impacted soil can be treated to an environmental condition that allows it to be reused in revitalization projects for residential, parkland and commercial projects; and showcase treatment technologies that will benefit brownfield remediation.

Stone Lizard's production team is currently completing the development of several collections of school uniforms made from organic cotton; the shirts' collection will be the first one available in August 2010, at the same price as the previous collections. "As a company we have a social and ecological responsibility. Providing students with uniforms made from organic cotton is part of our business philosophy and is part of what we're doing to reduce our environmental footprint" explains Tammy Hattem, vice-president and co-owner of Stone Lizard.

Certified organic cotton that protects our environment
The organic cotton used to make the Stone Lizard school uniforms is certified by GOTS and provides an agriculture that respects the environment and the employees as well as an ecological transformation of cotton in the factories (vegetable or mineral inks highly biodegradable, no heavy metals, formaldehyde, PVC, etc.).

Organic agriculture protects the environment, among others because it does not exhaust the earth as intensive cultivation does due to pesticides or GMOs and it is not detrimental to surrounding species. In addition, it helps preserve biodiversity by using traditional seeds of cotton and uses traditional irrigation methods that consume less water-intensive irrigation methods. It is therefore an organic agriculture in tune with nature that saves resources in a sustainable way.
Stone Lizard sees green

The organic school uniforms project is in continuity with the green plan of this Quebec company and with the environmental challenge that it gives daily to its employees. Instigator of the Ecolomania contest in 2009, Stone Lizard had invited the public high school students of Quebec to suggest a green plan that they would like to achieve within their school to make it greener. Participants had a chance to win $ 8,000 given by Stone Lizard to realize the winning project and it's the Rivière-du-Loup high school that had been crowned by the jury (www.ecolomania.ca).