Who's on Board?

The following organizations have become participants and are promoting and using the ENERGY STAR symbol in Canada. When available, you can go to their web sites by clicking on the name of the organization.

General Participants

Acronamic Learning Systems

Acronamic Learning Systems offers licensing and voluntary education programs to real estate practitioners. The company includes information on ENERGY STAR-qualified products in its educational courses for real estate salespersons and brokers so they can serve the buying and selling public better.

Amiel Distributions Ltd.

Since 1980, Amiel Distributions Ltd. has been offering its clients prestigious and reliable brands of the household-appliance and electronic industries. Matching high technology and durability with sophisticated design, its products are state of the art within the market. Amiel Distributions Ltd. is also recognized for its quality service. Amiel Distributions Ltd. includes the ENERGY STAR symbol when advertising its ENERGY STAR-qualified products.

Building Performance Association

The Building Performance Association is a trade association made up of building contractors, consultants and educators who believe in the "house as a system" approach to home improvements or retrofits. The Association ensures that all its members are kept up to date on the ENERGY STAR Initiative in Canada and ENERGY STAR-qualified products. Association members promote the initiative and products to the consumer.

Clean Air Foundation

The Foundation undertook market research to define key elements of Canada's first room air-conditioner exchange pilot project (the "Keep Cool Program"). The ENERGY STAR-qualified units. The Program generated high visibility in selected stores and the surrounding communities by offering incentives such as rebate coupons.

Dundas Environmental Awareness Group

The aim of the Group is to increase public awareness in Dundas County, Ontario, of the need to manage local resources wisely and to encourage public involvement in solving local problems. The Group publishes a Healthy Home Guidebook that is a practical environmental self-assessment guide for the average rural homeowner. It explains what homeowners can do to improve the environment and their health. The Guidebook promotes ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances and equipment.

Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)

Where opportunities exist, the GVRD is promoting ENERGY STAR-qualified products among its residents by incorporating information on these products in a number of awareness-raising publications.

The Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI)

The Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) is the national trade association of manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and contractors in the Canadian heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry who provide the products and services for indoor comfort and essential refrigeration processes. HRAI includes the HRAI Manufacturers Division; Canadian Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Wholesalers (CHRAW); and Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Contractors of Canada (HRAC). HRAI produced and distributed to its members a fact sheet on EnerGuide and the ENERGY STAR initiative in Canada. HRAI promotes ENERGY STAR-qualified air-to-air heat pumps, central air conditioners and high-efficiency gas furnaces.

Homeworks Services Inc.

Homeworks Services Inc. delivers residential energy assessments, home improvements and low-cost financing programs to Canadians. Through backing by Terasen Inc. and Eaga Partnership Ltd., and in partnership with Terasen Gas and Natural Resources Canada, Homeworks promotes ENERGY STAR -qualified furnaces in British Columbia. Homeworks is also promoting ENERGY STAR -labelled products through its retail Homeworks Financing network across Canada.

Lumber and Building Materials Association of Ontario

The Lumber and Building Materials Association of Ontario, Inc. (LBMAO), established in 1917, is a non-profit association comprised of Ontario retailers of lumber, building materials and hardware, as well as suppliers who are manufacturers, distributors, buying groups, wholesalers or service firms that sell products or provide services to the retail lumber, building materials and hardware trade.

Omni Film Productions

Omni Film Productions produces documentaries and non-fiction series, specializing in nature, technology and the environment. Omni produces the "Healthy Home" TV series for HGTV (the Home and Garden channel) and has signed a letter of agreement to highlight ENERGY STAR-qualified products in the series, where appropriate.

Toronto Atmospheric Fund

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund – the City of Toronto's clean air agency – finances initiatives committed to global climate stabilization and cleaner air in the City of Toronto. The agency produced a Clean Air Consumer Guide for residents of Toronto Housing Company Inc.'s subsidized housing projects, highlighting ENERGY STAR-qualified, energy-efficient products.

Yukon Development Corporation

The Yukon Development Corporation and the Energy Solutions Centre are undertaking a fridge exchange pilot project in the Yukon's diesel-electric and hydro-electric communities. The goal is to replace up to 500 ten-year-old (or older) working refrigerators with ENERGY STAR-qualified refrigerators by using financial incentives and covering the costs of decommissioning and removing the old units.