YQGgreen: The Resource For A Greener, More Sustainable, And More Vibrant Windsor Essex

By Elizabeth Elias-Hernandez, Pirkko Marketing

The idea for a Green Networking Group started after hosting the first CPC Earth Day Open House in 2017 for my former employer, (now client) Contents Processing Centre (CPC), a local content restoration facility.

Being involved in many local business networking groups, I realized there was no network for “GREEN” businesses. This was the start of CPC Green Connections

“Awareness makes all the difference,” says Leigh Hello, Co-owner of one of our first members celebrating 28 years in business, The Cabinet Studio (Canada) Inc. “When we started selling green cabinetry no one knew what that meant and now people are asking for it.”

In 2021, we renamed our group to YQGgreen to welcome everyone from the Windsor Essex community. We were featured in the City of Windsor Virtual Earth Hour celebration.

In 2022, we participated in various Earth Day Events around Windsor Essex including the ERCA Community Tree Planting, Devonshire Mall Recycle Day Event, Bryerswood Earth

Day Event and the 2022 Can Am Police Fire Games Opening Ceremonies (a Zero Waste Event hosted by the City of Windsor and community partners).

Many of these great local community partners are helping to make our YQGgreen Expo a reality this year on Saturday, October 14, 2023

“Green Sun Rising has been a YQGgreen member from the start and we are so excited to be part of the YQGgreen Expo to showcase the variety of Windsor Essex green businesses that we already have in our community,” states Tanja Nuske, Vice President of Marketing for Green Sun Rising

Be sure to save the date for the expo — the first of many in the years to come — in your calendar!

For more information visit: YQGgreen.ca.