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The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization

Environmental organization

An environmental organization is an organization that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation or lobby for these goals....

. Formed in 1988, TEA provides an activist voice on environmental issues affecting Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

Mandate

TEA's mandate is to promote a greener Toronto. To fulfill that function, TEA works with "concerned individuals, community groups, professionals and workers", encouraging the participation of local people on local issues. TEA has a vision of a healthy community based on equity, access, safety and a clean environment. TEA was founded in 1988 to pursue this mission of instilling environmental responsibility within municipal governments, investigating innovative, local solutions and encouraging cities to become advocates for the environment.

Organization

The Toronto Environmental Alliance is governed by a 9-member volunteer Board of Directors

Board of directors

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...

. Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott

Michael Shapcott is a Canadian social activist and academic best known for his work on housing and anti-poverty issues in Toronto.Trained as a lawyer Shapcott came to public attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work in BASIC which became the "Breads Not Circuses" coalition which...

is the President of TEA and Franz Hartmann is the Executive Director

Executive director

Executive director is a term sometimes applied to the chief executive officer or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. It is widely used in North American non-profit organizations, though in recent decades many U.S. nonprofits have adopted the title "President/CEO"...

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TEA has over 30,000 members and donors.

Focus Areas

TEA focuses on five major subjects:

Smog
Smog
Smog is a type of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Modern smog is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine...

, Climate Change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

, and Energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
Public Transit
Toxics
Waste
Waste
Waste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...

Reduction
Greenbelt
Green belt
A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges which have a linear character and may run through an...

Publications

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