We’re growing the circular economy by empowering people like you
to bring business and community-led solutions to life
What is the circular economy?
A circular economy is an economic system that aims to systematically reduce wasted resources (including materials, water, and energy).
By reducing waste, we also reduce the need for resource extraction and landfilling.
We’ll achieve a circular economy by creating systems that circulate resources: sharing, reducing, reusing, repairing, remanufacturing, upcycling, and recycling.
What we do
We empower passionate people to bring business and community-led solutions to life.
There is so much untapped passion for change in communities across Canada to build a sustainable future, but people are disempowered - that’s where Impact Zero comes in:
Inform & Inspire: We make it easy to learn about all areas of sustainability from an optimistic angle, inspiring community members to learn about what a future circular economy would look like.
Innovate: We connect community members to brainstorm solutions relevant to them and find partners to work with to build something bigger than themselves.
Implement: We support community members to build their community-led initiatives or businesses on the ground, accelerating their progress by providing professional resources, project management, and micro-grants.
Inform & Inspire
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Inform & Inspire 〰️
Inner Circle Podcast: Our weekly podcast interviews a diversity of change makers about circular economy solutions
Innovate
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Innovate 〰️
Explore Series: We host bi-monthly events to connect the circular economy community and raise funds to support innovation programming
Implement
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Implement 〰️
Circular Innovation Accelerator: Our mission is to make climate tech entrepreneurship more accessible to underrepresented founders. The Circular Innovation Accelerator is designed to help new innovators bring their sustainable ideas to life..
Circular Marketplace
Our new and improved Circular Biz Directory (now called the Circular Marketplace) has been re-vamped to make it even easier to find circular versions of the things that you need:
Search by product (i.e. search for “totes” and see who sells them)
Learn about what makes each business circular
Filter search results by location & business owner identity
Our Alumni
