Join Betty's Team and help make cloth bags. Pattern are available, you can also have a cloth drive or donate cloth to help make the bags.
Gleaners is now the greenest food bank in Canada.
With the unveiling of our innovative grid solar panel conservation project, Gleaners a the nonprofit organization is leading in green initiatives.
Our Ice Energy delivers smart grid-ready advanced energy storage for our operations.
Our innovative grid solar panel conservation project.
The sustainable energy shift at Gleaners started about two years ago when a committee was part of the planning process with the Ontario Power Authority Application Process, brainstorming about what should be done at the Gleaners to help save energy, cut operation costs, and help the next generation by providing a cleaner environment.
The food bank's green journey started with the Veridian Energy Lighting Retrofit program which is designed to remove older, inefficient lighting, motors, HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning), and other inefficient equipment and systems.
Through funding received from RBC, the bank converted all its refrigerators and freezers to Energy Star appliances. Also, an ice energy air conditioning system has recently been installed in the 25 Wallbridge Crescent facility. The Ontario Trillium Foundation supported the Gleaners by funding a new insulated roof on the building. Finally, Batawa's TAB Mechanical Inc.'s Michael Tiffe supervised the installation of a rain harvesting conservation and solar energy organic system for the garden located near the food banks' warehouse.
But the peak of the Gleaners green facelift was the installation of 72 15 kW PV solar panels that will allow the Gleaners to soon produce their own energy and offset energy costs.
