Profile

Geoff Love is President of Love Environment, a small specialized Canadian environmental consulting company. Established in 2002, Love Environment Inc. provides recruitment services, environmental business and organizational development, strategic planning and project management expertise to private sector, public sector and not-for-profit clients. The firm works exclusively on environmental strategies, producer responsibility, green job recruitment, zero waste and climate change ideas, issues and projects. Geoff is an environmental entrepreneur who is passionate about social and environmental causes and opportunities.

Geoff was the President of Resource Integrations Systems (RIS laterally known as Enviros-RIS) from 1998 to 2002. RIS is widely recognized as an international pioneer of “blue box” recycling programs. Starting as a pilot project in Kitchener Ontario in 1981, the Blue Box program idea received a United Nations award of merit that now serves hundreds of hundreds of millions of households around the world. In addition to his extensive project work, Geoff led RIS’s expansion into three US offices in the late 1980s and two offices in Europe in the early 1990s. His skills and experience in business development and environmental issues management contributed to RIS becoming a leading international consultancy specializing in waste reduction and climate-related behaviour change.

Geoff spearheaded the sale of RIS to the UK green venture capital company Enviros in the late 1990s and served as President of Enviros RIS Canada for four years. As a highly experienced project manager, he has been working independently for the past 20 years - often in collaboration with other technical and process specialists. Geoff is past Chair of Pollution Probe, Youth Ventures Developments and Friends of the Earth Canada. He was also a founder of Extended Producer responsibility Canada, a 7-year project to promote best practices in producer responsibility across Canada. He was also the lead on an award winning 3-year national climate change engagement program - called Actions by Canadians - for the Energy Council of Canada. Geoff has a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University.

Geoff is the grandfather of twin girls and one grandson and lives in Stratford, Ontario working towards Zero Waste, an active transportation system that works and a climate change action plan that engages our city and citizens. He’s a founder of Stratford Pert Tree Trust (“fighting climate change one tree at a time”) and a lead on his local United Way’s advocacy campaigns for a living wage and universal basic income. He has been a member of the city’s Energy & Environment and Active Transportation Advisory committees and now serves on the Advisory Board of Climate Momentum, a local climate action group. He is also the Past-president of Cycle Stratford.