Tim Grant

Until his nomination as Green Party candidate, Tim Grant was the chair and long-time board member of the Harbord Village Residents’ Association, a downtown Toronto neighbourhood. Over the years, he led numerous tree-planting activities, including a detailed inventory of the neighbourhood’s 4000 trees. He co-chaired the Downtown West Solar Energy Project that enabled 65 Trinity-Spadina households to add solar panels to their rooftops in 2007-2008. He continues to co-chair Tower Power Toronto, an organization that helps those in over 250 condo and co-op residential buildings green their operations(he would hasten to add that none of these involvements would have occurred without the active participation of a great many others!).

A former high school teacher, Tim Grant has been the co-editor of Green Teacher magazine for the past 20 years. During this time, he has co-edited six books and given hundreds of presentations around the world on how best to educate young people about the environment. He was a founding member of Energy Educators of Ontario, the Ontario Environment Network, Environmental Education Ontario, and for many years the Vice-Chair of EECOM, the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication.