My Eco Future Now

We Grow sustainable Communities.

We support grassroots-led climate action through leadership, connection, training, and funding.

My Eco Future Now Story

Sustainable and climate-ready communities are needed. We know this need is urgent. At My Eco Future Now, our work moves beyond the question ‘why’ and focuses on collaborative solutions to the challenge of ‘how’.

My Eco Future Now has been leading a community-based climate action movement since 1995, working together with non-profit organizations from across the country to advance transformative, equitable, and lasting change.

Our work is informed by our core values:

Humble

Open, humble, and always learning from others and from the land in this complex and dynamic world.

Collaborative

Creative and collaborative in our approach, recognizing the strength to be found in diverse experiences.

Inclusive

Determined to be inclusive and to take active steps toward supporting greater equity in our work and in the sector.

Accountable

Committed to evidence-based decisions, transparency, ensuring accountability is centered in our approach.

Strategic Direction

As a membership-based organization, our goal is to support and sustain grassroots-led climate action through leadership, connection, training, and funding. My Eco Future Now is celebrating more than 25 years of collective impact, and as we look toward the next decade, we do so recognizing how pivotal this time is for the future of humanity and the planet.

Our Profiled Programs

Active School Travel

We encourage walking and wheeling to school for safer school zones, cleaner air, and healthier children

Home Energy Solutions

Home energy performance to reduce our carbon footprint, save money, and increase comfort.

Living Cities Canada

We work with communities to make green infrastructure equitable, abundant, and thriving.

Depave Paradise

We empower community organizations to create new urban greenspace by tearing up unused pavement.

Appointed in 2018.

DUKe trifunovik

Duke is an investment and financial planner with an academic background in business financial services. Currently, his adaptation of Responsible Investing enables clients to be educated in the environmental, social, and corporate governance practices of Canadian and global companies. Duke is Treasurer of GCC member organization Green Venture, Hamilton.

Strategic Goals

Strengthen our Vibrant Collective

My Eco Future Now is a growing national network that connects community-based non-profit climate action groups from across the country. GCC empowers and amplifies the work of our members through relationship building, knowledge and resource sharing, and collective advocacy.

Accelerate Transformative Climate Solutions

My Eco Future Now provides strong national leadership to help communities take meaningful local action to address the climate crisis. GCC’s programs and services are evidence- and member-informed, providing the supports necessary to accelerate grassroots solutions.

Build Organizational Resilience and Equity

My Eco Future Now is a resilient organization with the financial, cultural, and structural assets needed to support a strong and diverse staff, membership, and board. GCC demonstrates an ongoing commitment to reconciliation, anti-oppression, and environmental justice.