an environmental programs incubator

reThink Green

Green Economy North is helping businesses, not for profits, and
community organizations across Northeastern Ontario achieve their
sustainability goals!

Become a Green Economy North
member and join the transition to a low carbon future! Click here to learn more!

reThink Green acknowledges and honours the Canadian National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities in recognizing residential schools’ deep wounds and enduring impacts. Our commitment to environmental and community well-being extends to supporting initiatives that promote understanding, healing, and justice. We believe in a future where every individual is respected, and the truths of our shared history serve as a foundation for a more inclusive and sustainable society.

vision

By 2027, reThink Green as a leader across Northern Ontario, will share knowledge and spark inspiration to both provide and stimulate impactful action across three focus areas –sustainable(1) healthy communities, responsible environmental practices, and environmental leadership.

(1) reThink Green defines sustainability based of the principals of The Natural Step.

mission

reThink Green is a community driver of sustainable and impactful climate change action.

mandate

To empower members through capacity building events, resources and knowledge sharing, collaboration, and community education opportunities.

Land acknowledgement

reThink Green acknowledges that we are on aboriginal land that has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples from the beginning.

As settlers, we’re grateful for the opportunity to meet here and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land – for thousands of years.

Long before today, as we gather here, there have been Indigenous peoples who have been the stewards of this place

In particular, we acknowledge the Robinson-Huron Treaty territory and the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek.

We recognize and deeply appreciate their historic connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and our province and country as a whole.

As settlers, this recognition of the contributions and historic importance of Indigenous peoples must also be clearly and overtly connected to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities, and in particular to bring justice for missing and murdered indigenous relations across our country.