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Voting with our dollar. Your inquisitive minds want to know how we are maximizing our impact through purchasing power. This is our marketplace - welcome to it.
Ecojot Workbooks 100% designed and made in CANADA – these funky recycled paper products brighten up our days.
Klean Kanteen Stainless Steel Bottles Non-leaching, zero BPA, 100% recyclable anti-plastic, stainless steel bottle. Cute, compact, and clean. The 12oz bottle with poly flat cap is perfect for petite hands and helps keep us hydrated all day long.
Botanical Paperworks Plantable Calendars Designed by the lovely Kal Barteski, this monthly desk calendar “creates beauty and leaves nothing behind but flowers”.
Mondragon Café Dragon Bowl Mondragon is part café and part bookstore. It is Winnipeg’s own politically-hyped and environmentally-conscious food (anti) establishment. When we need a serious boost of energy, nutrition and conscience, we grab a dragon bowl at this Exchange District café.
Method Pink Grapefruit All Surface Cleaner It smells good enough to eat – even though we don’t like grapefruit what-so-ever and would never recommend eating cleaning supplies. Beyond the scent, Method cleaners are beautifully packaged and amazingly effective.
Canon imageCLASS 4-in-1 Duplex Printer Networkable, this awesome new printer/fax machine/scanner/copier does every little thing iNSPiRED PRACTiCE needs it to. Best of all it automatically prints double-sided pages – a must for a business like ours.
Ethical Host Owned and operated by John MacKenzie, a young entrepreneur based in Toronto, Ethical Host is 100% green powered. Ethical Host provides web hosting services that “make a difference in the environment and in people's lives and communities”. What could be better than that?
Wind Power by Pembina Wind is a remarkable natural wonder and we use it to power the iNSPiRED PRACTiCE computer. By purchasing Pembina Institute wind power certificates for our in-house laptop – affectionately named Monsieur Periwinkle – we ensure that 100% renewable energy is going onto the grid on our behalf.
Biodegradable Corn Pens The epitome of cradle-to-grave design - a biodegradeable refillable pen made from corn. No matter where it ends up (landfill, compost bin or random patch of soil) this writing instrument will disintegrate in about 12 months.
Kicking Horse Three Sisters Organic Fair Trade Coffee Pioneered by an entrepreneurial duo, this coffee is roasted 3,000 ft above sea level (reflecting perfect symmetry with the altitude it was grown) in Canada’s own majestic Rockies. We know coffee and this coffee is yummy.
Cascades Enviro100 Copy Paper Manufactured from 100% post-consumer fibre, certified by EcoLogo and the Forest Stewardship Council, processed chlorine free, and manufactured using biogas energy Need we say more?
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