Profile

The C4GE was founded in 1992 as the “Coalition for a Green Economic Recovery” in response to the Premier’s call for suggestions for fighting the deepening recession. The initiating group included environmentalists like the late Gary Gallon, Stephen Hall, Wayne Roberts, John Bacher, and Jack Layton, but soon included a brain trust of local community activists and ecopreneurs. They proposed a number of innovative projects for energy retrofit, water conservation, recycling, green market creation and more—which were eventually taken up by municipal governments, the provincial Green Communities Initiative and green businesses around the region.