Greenest City has accumulated an impressive collection of success stories since we first began operating in 1996. Just a few highlights:

Bike Roots an exciting new training and leadership project for young people was a project started in the summer of 2006 that engaged young people in their community's food security, urban agriculture and local ecology by involving them in a youth powered cargo bike delivery business and community food production. Bike Roots youth delivered products and services, tailored to their community's specific cultural and socio-economic realities, and promoted access to affordable and healthy food - by cargo bike!

Active & Safe Routes to School, a program to work with school communities to reclaim our neighbourhood streets for a safer, cleaner environment, our health, and our communities. Today the program is managed by Green Communities Canada. For details on the program please visit www.saferoutestoschool.ca.

Walk to School Day, a special and celebratory event to broaden participation of families and children in active modes of transportation and to expose families to the joy of walking to school.

Cool Shops, helping neighbourhood retailers to identify and implement in-store energy management measures, and help save energy, and improve environmental health.

Community Based Environmental Health Workshops, providing the community with information on the links between health and the environment and investigating some of the causes of environmental degradation that can be reduced through consumer awareness and the use of alternative products.

Idle-Free Program, calling on drivers to stop idling and get active to reduce smog. Individuals can take the kind of personal action that seems to be missing in transportation policies and programs.

The Multicultural Greening Project was an initiative dedicated to working with Toronto's diverse groups to undertake community-based greening actions and raise a multicultural perspective for environmental justice.

The Kensington Vermiculture Pilot Project, reclaimed organic waste from Kensington green grocers and turned it into nutrient rich natural fertilizer, thereby reducing waste transport, and methane emissions. The worm unit was transferred to the hands of the Scadding Court Community Centre where a group of single moms now maintain the worm unit as part of a community gardening and greenhouse growing project.

Annex Bicycle Delivery Project worked with a retailers in the Annex to deliver goods by bike to neighbourhood residents, offsetting motor vehicle delivery and shopping as well as providing valuable employment to youth.

Backyard Shade Tree Project came to Greenest City through a partnership with East Toronto Green Community. The project grew big enough to warrant its own organization. The Local enhancement and Appreciation of Forests (LEAF) was born. A Trees Please! program remained within Greenest City throughout 1998, focusing on tree planting at multi-unit housing sites.