Entrepreneurship at Environment Wall of Recognition

2020 Winner: ECOwear

David Sartor, Master's in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

Abdul Kahloon, Master's in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

Muhammad Ahsan Khan, Master's in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

ECOwear is creating a 100% biodegradable, one-time use absorbent hygiene product that is healthy for the user and the planet. This product acts as an alternative to disposable diapers and helps to address the issue of excessive waste in landfills.

 David Sartor, Abdul Kahloon, Muhammad Ahsan Khan

2019 Global Winner: SheCycle

Leah Wouda, International Development 

Anna Kuepfer, Health Studies 

Abby Loewen, Math & Business Administration

SheCycle is creating a unique antimicrobial reusable sanitary pad that can be locally sourced and distributed in Uganda. SheCycle went on from winning the World's Challenge Challenge campus finals to being the global finalist.

 Leah Wouda, Anna Kuepfer, Abby Loewen

Fall 2019 Winner: TRUM

Jonas Hamberg, PhD Candidate Restoration Technology and Thermodynamics 

Shahzad Lone, Bachelor of Computer Science

TRUM (Targeted Remote Unsupervised Monitoring) uses thermal monitoring to drive environmental growth by tracking the growth and vegetation of plants in different locations to optimize and strategize their growth environment. 

Jonas Hamberg, Shahzad Lone

2019 Winner: SMART App

Jaydeep Mistry, Master's in Geography

Juan Carrillo, Master's in Computer Software

Fraser King, Master's of Science

Manpreet Singh Chahal, Masters in Geography

SMART (Sustainable Management in Augmented Reality Technology) App uses Augmented Reality and GIS technologies to increase public engagement in the planning of Sustainable Urban Development initiatives.

Jaydeep Mistry, Juan Carrillo, Manpreet Singh Chahal

2019 Winner: IXIM

Noor-ur-Rahman Shaikh, MES in Sustainability Management;

Daniel Gonzalez, MES in Sustainability Management

IXIM creates 100% biodegradable and sustainable blocks as an alternative to bricks by leveraging agroindustrial waste.

Daniel Gonzalez

2018 Winner: Polygone Technologies

Lauren Smith, PhD candidate Social and Ecological Sustainability, MES  

Nicole Balliston, PhD candidate Geography and Environmental Management, MSc GEM

PolyGone Technologies provides fast, reliable, and accurate measurement of microplastics in consumer products, like your favourite craft beer or other beverage. PolyGone is setting the standard for microplastic content certification as they increase transparency for consumers and work with businesses to help get plastic out of consumer products.

Lauren Smith, Nicole Balliston

2018 Winner: Polygone Technologies

Lauren Smith, PhD candidate Social and Ecological Sustainability, MES  

Nicole Balliston, PhD candidate Geography and Environmental Management, MSc GEM

PolyGone Technologies provides fast, reliable, and accurate measurement of microplastics in consumer products, like your favourite craft beer or other beverage. PolyGone is setting the standard for microplastic content certification as they increase transparency for consumers and work with businesses to help get plastic out of consumer products.

Lauren Smith, Nicole Balliston

Sessional Lecturer, Ph.D. Candidate 
School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED)

Synergy Sustainability & Development Group, Co-founder & Managing Director 

Waterloo SDG is a consulting firm focused on providing comprehensive sustainable development related support services to international and domestic businesses, NGOs, and government organizations.

Amr Elalfy

B.E.S Environment and Business 

Career Skills Incubator, Founder

Organizes workshops, mentorship and custom-crafted volunteer opportunities to empower the underemployed.

Full Footprint, Founder

Innovated a more holistic metric for assessing environmental impact that combines carbon, ecological and water footprints together.

Victoria Alleyne

B.E.S Environment and Resource Studies

Boosh, Co-Founder 

Creating bold, organic, cruelty free cosmetics in the service of all those allergic to chemical food dyes.​ At Boosh, we believe that clean does not mean compromise. You CAN have bold shades of mineral makeup without using food dyes, petroleum-based oils, and artificial fragrances! 

Sarah Walker

B.E.S Environment and Business

Amina Health, Co-Founder

VitameterInc. provides a handheld device that measures individual vitamin levels. Its device provides the information needed to manage diet and supplements in individuals. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Bobby Green

B.E.S Environment and Business

Pearl Card, Founder

Pearl enables highly dynamic interactions between high-traffic entertainment venues and their customers through a system of electronic payments and a personalized marketing platform.

Humberto Gutierrez

B.E.S Environment and Business

Hackergal, Co-Founder

Hackergal is a not-for-profit organization that aims to introduce girls in grades 6 to 9 across Canada to computer science through the experience of a in-class hackathon.

Lucy Ho

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

GeoOrbis Inc., Owner

A Barbados-based geospatial technologies firm that provides products and services to both public and private sector clients throughout the Caribbean. Our services include geospatial project management, application development, web-based solutions, web-based automated vehicle location and base mapping.

Craig Batstone

B.E.S Environment and Resource Studies

BZ Environmental Consulting, Owner

Provides a wealth of experience in demolition, waste disposal, hazardous material management, site reclamation, tailings reclamation and revegetation, and closure planning.​

Tatry Geo-Environmental Drilling, Owner

A full service geotechnical/environmental drilling firm located in Northern Ontario.

Mark Bednarz

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Bentley Coaching Limited, Owner

Solutions for healthy aging, energy, performance, weight loss and wealth creation.

Bentley Coaching Limited has helped clients prepare for over 1400 Ironman Triathlon events, leading them to victory at the ITU Age Group World Champions, and being named Coach of the Year in Ontario.

Steven Bentley

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Blackline Power, Owner

Blackline Power helps individuals and businesses make the most out of their Solar Photovoltaic (PV) products throughout their lifecycle, from the panel installation through maintenance and optimization.​

Rob Black

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

B&A Planning Group, Partner

B&A Planning Group is one of Western Canada’s leading and fastest growing professional community and land development planning firms with a twenty-five year track record of success. We provide professional consulting services to a broad range of public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

B.E.S Environment and Business 

whyVOTE, Founder

whyVOTEis a web app that helps you determine who to vote for and compare views with friends.

Mavis Chan 

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Udj? DJ School, Founder

Cultivating the next generation of DJs  and teaching them how to use their art to positively impact others.

Practice. Preparation. Performance.

Lee Yin Chung

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Centre for Rural and Community Initiative, Partner

We contribute to the well-being of the citizens of Grey, Bruce, Simcoe, Huron, and Perth counties by identifying, sharing and creating regional knowledge resources to support cultural, social, economic and municipal initiative.

David Clark

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Valerie Cranmer & Associates Inc, President

For the past 22 years, Valerie Cranmer & Associates Inc. has provided planning consulting services to many rural municipalities and private development concerns in Ontario.  The preparation of policy documents such as strategic plans, official plans, and zoning by-laws are the focus of the municipal work, while the private development interests range from plans of condominium/subdivision, affordable housing initiatives to OMB hearings.

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Cutten Golf Course Design, Owner

Cutten Golf Inc. is a design-build practice focused on creating fun, economical and environmentally sustainable golf courses, which blend seamlessly into the sites on which they are shaped. Cutten is also the author of The Evolution of Golf Course Design. 

Keith Cutten

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

ENVionx, Founder

ENVionXInc. is focused on helping environmental organizations move their innovative ideas into tangible assets. From strategic planning, to execution of high-impact marketing tactics, ENVionX’screative team has the experience and passion to drive customer goals forward.

Martin Draeger

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Dun-Map Inc, Founder

Dun-Map specialized in digital mapping, Geomatics, graphic design, software development and communications for public transit, real estate, tourism and consumer applications, from 1989 to 2012.

Ian Dunlop

PhD Regional Planning and Resource Development

Dunster & Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd, President

We provide professional services in consulting arboriculture, timber testing, and land use planning for private and municipal clients.

Julian Dunster

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning 

RFA Planning Consultants Inc., President

RFA Planning Consultant Inc. is fostering progressive development and creating attractive, livable communities by providing comprehensive planning services from their base in Belleville, Ontario. 

Ruth Ferguson Aulthouse

Master of Environment and Resource Studies

Tallgrass Mead, Founder

Tallgrass Mead is a boutique winery specializing in honey wines made with locally-sourced ingredients. Our meads are made using sustainable production methods in the spirit of celebrating this rare ecosystem and protecting the environment around us. 

Elaine Ferrier

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning 

C. Flemming Developments Ltd., President

Developing and managing suburban and business centresin Ottawa’s fastest-growing neighborhoods by combining a corporate approach to financial security with the personal care of a family-run business​. 

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning 

Wild. Here., Founder

Wild. Here. has been created out of a desire to get that extra boost that only nature can give us and a curiosity about the wild creatures, plants and spaces around us in the urban environment. Join in on discovering the hidden untamed corners and urban green gems in your city! 

Katherine Forster

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management 

AET Group Inc, CEO

AET Group is a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting, auditing and scientific services company providing professional services to the built and natural environments in many core service areas.

Scott Freiburger

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

French Planning Services Inc, Founders

French Planning Services provides a full range of planning services from environmental inventories to impact assessments, group facilitation, strategic planning and resource and municipal planning.

Randy French

B.E.S and Psychology

Agile Financial Services, Owner

Agile Financial Services provides customers with expert and unbiased guidance on mortgage, insurance, savings, investment and retirement needs​.

Andrew Gabb

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Hazelton Hops, Co-Owner

Permaculture ethics applied to the cultivation of 11 varieties of organic hops local to Hazelton.

MASH, Founder

Turning Hazelton, BC into a hub for agritourism by organizing arts and music events celebrating local agricultural heritage.

PhD Social and Ecological Sustainability

TRIECO Research and Consulting, Founder

TRIECO is a transdisciplinary consulting firm that works with a diverse set of organizations to craft flexible plans that address complex problems. Providing stakeholder research, action plans, workshop facilitation and much more, TRIECO is a young organization unbound by the rules of conventional consultancies. 

Elaine Ho

Master of Regional Planning and Resource Development

PM Hubbard & Associates, Principal

PM Hubbard and Associates is a unique consultancy specializing in graphic facilitation, collaborative planning processes and methods for engaging people in meaningful conversations (dialogue). 

 Pamela Hubbard

Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Freight Transport Research Institute, Founder

The Freight Transport Research Institute looks for ways to increase the standardization, visibility and use of technologies in transportation, especially in transportation operations.

Paul Jakubicek

B.E.S Man-Environment Studies

E2 Management Corporation, Founder

E2 Management Corporation is a research-based niche management consultancy whose experiences and expertise spans the globe.

GoingfortheGreen.org, Founder

GFTG TV is an online high definition TV platform with programming designed to help small business as the “go for the green.”

Lynn Johannson

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

NXT City, Founder

NXT City is a non-profit organization based in Toronto that connects young talent with a network of established leaders to create, activate and program public spaces. NXT City leverages the momentum of a new wave of creative talent with a call for vibrant public spaces to create a brand new engagement tool.

Mackenzie Keast

Master of Climate Change 

Footprint Engineering Inc, Founder

Feng is a design engineering services company focused on driving sustainable design practices in foundations and rehabilitation engineering.

Climate and Nature Society Engineers and Technicians Inc, Founder

CANSEAT is a not for profit organization dedicated to finding engineering solutions and best practices to climate change and sustainability challenges.

Master of Geography and Environmental Management

Nautilus Consulting, Founder

Nautilus offers a wide range of services across the entire spectrum of a construction project.

Maria Legault

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Urban Minds, Co-Founder

Urban Minds was founded in 2016 by a trio passionate about shaping the next generation of urban changemakers. We combined our experience in architecture, urban planning, and design with our passion in youth education to encourage curiosity and exploration of innovative urban design.

Ryan Lo

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Master of Regional Planning and Resource Development

MHBC Planning, Founding Partner

At MHBC we bring innovation, creativity and practicality to the challenges of commercial, residential and aggregate resource planning. We are accomplished problem solvers and qualified experts who believe in high quality aesthetics whilst never hindering the environment.

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning 

Long Legs Media, Founder

Long Legs Media is a Digital Media Company established in 2008. We offer a range of expertise and experience to help serve the Digital Marketing, Social Media and Content Creation needs of small to medium size businesses or larger businesses with an entrepreneurial mind-set.

Anne-Marie Marais

Master of Regional Planning and Resource Development

PhD Urban and Regional Planning

Locus Geomatics Ltd, Founder

Developing and servicing geospatial infrastructure for the public, private and non-profit sectors in Bermuda.  We enable various types of business activity with geographic technology to provide staff and customers with insights and ease of use

Kevin Mayall

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Monteith Brown Planning Consultants Ltd, Founder 

MBPC is a highly successful urban and regional planning firm serving a broad range of municipal, not-for-profit and private sector clients since 1977. Our major service areas include: Municipal Planning, Parks, Recreation, and Culture Development Planning.

Jean Monteith

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Mount Seven Group, Principal

Mount Seven Group is a boutique strategic advisory firm focused on leading and developing the architecture of multi-unit organizations.

Rainer Mueller

B.E.S Environment and Resource Studies

Recyclable Materials Marketing, President

ReMMmarkets paper, plastic, metal, glass and other recyclable materials typically collected from curbside recycling programs across North America. ReMM also provides waste management and environmental consulting services to select clients.

Atul Nanda

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Rivers to Ridges, Co-Founder

Designing and delivering year-round wilderness-based programs to people of all ages across the Yukon to promote healthy communities and connections to the natural world.

Erin Nicolardi

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Engaging Minds Consultings Ltd., Founder

Strategic consulting for sustainability-based employee and outreach programs with community and business partnerships. Design, develop, implement and evaluate pilot programs, initiatives and curriculum for target audiences, as well as facilitators, educators and trainers within organizations.

Marnie Olson

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management 

Momentum Developments, Co-Founder

Condominium developments turning Downtown KW into a modern, environmentally-friendly, tightly-knit community – one condominium development at a time.​

Brian Prudman

Master of Development Practice

Studio.89, Co-Founder

Studio.89 is a non-profit community hub and fair trade cafe providing a safe, free space for events, workshops and resources. We encourage arts, culture, activism, empowerment, and conscious consumerism.

Omar Rais

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

Grey Bruce Sustainability Network, Principal

Bringing together municipalities, groups and individuals of the Grey Bruce Region of Southwestern Ontario dedicated to leaving their planet and communities in better shape than they found them.​

Barry Randall

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Inukshuk Planning & Development Ltd, Principal

IPD is a unique northern environmental planning and landscape architecture firm. Setting higher standards for inclusive, meaningful and equitable environmental consultation in Northern Canada.​

Ian Robertson

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Carolinian Construction Ltd, Owner

Providing an exciting and immersive home improvement experience for their clients, from minor home renovations to building new homes to managing large construction projects.

Dan Sageman

PhD Human Geography

Open Food Network Canada, Founder

Open Food Network Canada uses technology to move the food movement. We work with sister organizations around the world to develop and deploy open source technology platforms that help community based sustainable food initiatives connect, proliferate and have greater impact.

Theresa Schumilas

PhD candidates in Social and Ecological Sustainability & Geography and Environmental Management

Polygone Technologies, Co-Founders

PolyGone Technologies provides fast, reliable, and accurate measurement of microplastics in consumer products, like your favourite craft beer or other beverage. PolyGone is setting the standard for microplastic content certification as they increase transparency for consumers and work with businesses to help get plastic out of consumer products.

Lauren Smith, Nicole Balliston

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Spears & Associates Inc, Owner

Spears & Associates Inc. is a planning, real estate and development consulting firm that provides diverse professional services to both public and private sector clients in the areas of development management, municipal approvals, mediation and negotiation, market and economic analysis, proposal calls, forensic and land use planning and expert opinion evidence and testimony, etc..

Catherine Spears

GDip Social Innovation

Thinking Rock Community Arts, Founder

We are a non profit community arts organization based in Thessalon, Ontario that creates art with and for the people living along the North Shore of Lake Huron, from Spanish to Sault Ste. Marie and all points in between.

Robin Sutherland

B.E.S Urban and Regional Planning

Sky Spirit Studio, Founder and Director

Creating public artwork meant to display and commemorate the rich artistic legacy of BC’s First Nations.

Mary Tasi

B.E.S. Environmental Studies

Abe ErbBrewing Co, Founder

We are a small brewery/pub located in the heart of Waterloo. Our focus is on a small craft selection of premium ales and lagers.

Settlement Co, Founder

Settlement Co, located in Waterloo, is a coffee roaster dedicated to quality, ethically sourced seasonal crops of the highest grade for all our specialty coffees.

Rob Theodosiou

B.E.S Geography and Environmental Management

TM NewMedia Inc, Founder and President

27 years of helping organizations and individuals achieve their goals through enhanced online learning and web communications​.

Tim Mock