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The SustainabilityX® Magazine TOP 25 Canada Women's Sustainable Business Awards™ 2025
- Jun 3
- 6 min read
Updated: Aug 26
Celebrating 25 women-owned Canadian businesses driving environmental, economic, and social change across Canada through values-based leadership.
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About The SustainabilityX® Magazine TOP 25 Canada Women's Sustainable Business Awards™ 2025
As new global tariffs take effect and economic nationalism threatens cross-border cooperation, Canadian businesses—especially those led by women—are bracing for rising costs, fractured supply chains, and increased uncertainty.
But we believe that uncertainty doesn’t have to mean isolation.
And that resilience is most powerful when it is rooted in values—and led by women.
That’s why we launched the The SustainabilityX® Magazine Canada Women's Sustainable Business Awards™: to recognize and uplift 25 outstanding women-owned businesses across Canada who are driving environmental, economic, and social change across Canada through values-based leadership. From clean tech to circular fashion, social enterprise to Indigenous innovation — these awards celebrate bold women leaders transforming our environment, economy, and society through responsible and inclusive business.
These awards come at a crucial time.
Women entrepreneurs in Canada already face systemic barriers to capital, visibility, and support.
With tariffs and economic fragmentation on the rise, these challenges are deepening—especially in sustainability sectors where innovation is key and margins are tight.
Yet Canadian women continue to lead—with courage, creativity, and clarity. They are transforming supply chains, regenerating communities, creating clean tech solutions, advancing circular business models, and standing firm in their purpose-driven missions.
These awards celebrate that leadership:
Free and Open to All Regions and Sectors – From rural farms to urban tech hubs, from Indigenous cooperatives to immigrant-owned businesses.
Rooted in Canadian Values, Designed for Global Impact – Local solutions with global ripple effects.
Launched in Response to Today’s Challenges – A direct stand for women in sustainability at a time when trade wars threaten to destabilize progress.
Why Now?
Because when the world builds walls, we build bridges, and when protectionist policies isolate, we celebrate connection.
And most importantly, because the most powerful response to fear, fragmentation, and uncertainty is women leading with vision.
Let’s honour the women building a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable Canada—starting now.
Beauty & Personal Care
Cheekbone Beauty – Jenn Harper (St. Catharines, ON) An Indigenous-owned cosmetics brand offering high-quality, vegan, and cruelty-free products. Cheekbone Beauty is a certified B Corp, emphasizing sustainability and social impact.
Elate Cosmetics – Melodie Reynolds (Victoria, BC) Elate creates ethically made, sustainable cosmetics that are vegan and cruelty-free. They prioritize responsible marketing and sustainable practices.
The Green Kiss – Megan Johns (Victoria, BC) A boutique offering 100% natural skincare and cosmetics, The Green Kiss is committed to providing safe and effective beauty products.
Oneka Elements – Stacey Miersch (Frelighsburg, QC) Oneka Elements produces nontoxic personal care products crafted from botanicals grown on their family land, aiming to nourish hair and skin without harmful chemicals.
Sḵwálwen Botanicals – Leigh Joseph (Squamish, BC) An Indigenous skincare line that incorporates sustainably harvested botanicals and traditional plant knowledge to create nourishing products.
Satya Organic – Patrice Mousseau (Vancouver, BC) Satya Organic offers clean, effective, and steroid-free skin relief products, formulated with simple, USDA Certified Organic ingredients.
🔗 satya.ca
Fashion & Apparel
Kotn – Mackenzie Yeates (Toronto, ON) Kotn is a sustainable clothing brand using ethically crafted and sustainably sourced Egyptian cotton, focusing on quality and ethical production.
🔗 kotn.com
📸 @kotn
ANIÁN – Jill Lindsay (Victoria, BC) ANIÁN is a circular fashion company that creates clothing from salvaged natural textiles, aiming to reduce environmental impact.
Nudnik – Alexandra and Lindsay Lorusso (Toronto, ON) Nudnik designs upcycled, organic kidswear from pre-consumer textile waste, promoting a waste-free world.
Redwood Classics Apparel – Kathy Cheng (Toronto, ON) Redwood Classics is a premium apparel brand championing ethical manufacturing, upcycling, and local sourcing, aiming to reshape the fashion industry.
Food & Beverage
Comeback Snacks – Emily O'Brien (Hamilton, ON) A popcorn company founded to raise awareness for second chances, employing reintegration initiatives for individuals post-incarceration.
Ethical Bean Coffee – Kim Schachte (Vancouver, BC) Ethical Bean Coffee offers 100% fairtrade certified and organic coffee, roasted in Canada with a commitment to environmental responsibility.
Blume – Karen Danudjaja (Vancouver, BC) Blume creates superfood latte blends with a focus on health, wellness, and conscious consumption, using plastic-free packaging.
Made with Local – Sheena Russell (Dartmouth, NS) A snack food company using local, transparent, and sustainable ingredients to support regional economies and promote healthy eating.
Remix Snacks – Jamie Lee and Isabelle Lam (Toronto, ON) Remix Snacks produces upcycled, plant-based snacks to combat food waste and promote health, using rescued produce.
Retail & Home Goods
Milk Jar Candle Co. – Holly Singer (Calgary, AB) A socially and environmentally conscious candle company employing people with disabilities and using clean ingredients.
All Things Jill – Jill Hawker (Calgary, AB) Producer of natural bath and body products made with sustainable practices and eco-friendly packaging.
Tiny Toy Co. – Emma Allen-Vercoe (Guelph, ON) A circular economy-based toy company upcycling broken toys into new educational materials, promoting sustainability in play.
Consulting & Services
Tuktu Care – Sabrina Truong (Vancouver, BC) An AI-powered platform providing personalized senior home care services across Canada, emphasizing community and sustainability.
🔗 tuktu.ca
LOCO BC – Amy Robinson (Vancouver, BC) A social enterprise promoting sustainable local economies through data, education, and advocacy.
📸 @locobc
Peace People Project – Sabrina Smelko (Hamilton, ON) A lifestyle brand using fashion and storytelling to promote climate consciousness and well-being.
Shoelace Learning – Julia Rivard Dexter (Lakeside, NS) A women-owned edtech company, Shoelace combines literacy, gamification, and real-time analytics to make learning irresistible and effective for K-12 students.
Aisle (formerly Lunapads) – Suzanne Siemens (Vancouver, BC) A pioneering brand in reusable menstrual products, advocating for gender equity and zero-waste periods.
Achieve Sustainability Inc. – Carol Aziz (Mississauga, ON) A consulting firm helping businesses embed sustainability into their operations through strategy, carbon management, and risk services.
Decade Impact – Hannah Askew & Camila Puch (Vancouver, BC) A women-led sustainability consultancy helping businesses measure, manage, and magnify their social and environmental impact. They specialize in B Corp certification, impact strategy, and reporting.
About The SustainabilityX® Magazine
The SustainabilityX® Magazine is an award-winning, digital, female-founded, and female-led non-profit initiative bringing the environment and economy together for a sustainable future through dialogue, and now transforming the environment and economy for a sustainable future through the power of women's leadership. Founded on May 8, 2016, and inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by Canada's Top 30 Under 30 in Sustainability Leadership awardee, Supriya Verma, the digital media initiative focuses on approaching the world's most pressing challenges with a holistic, integrated, systems-based perspective as opposed to the traditional and ineffective siloed approach with a single lens on interdisciplinary topics like climate and energy. This initiative ultimately seeks to explore how to effectively bring the environment and economy together through intellectual, insightful dialogue and thought-provoking discussion amongst individuals across sectors taking an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to untangling the intricate web of sustainability while championing women's leadership in sustainability.
The SustainabilityX® Magazine is built upon the four foundational pillars of sustainability: Environmental Stewardship, which emphasizes the importance of improving environmental health; Economic Prosperity, which promotes sustainable economic growth that transcends traditional capitalist models; Social Inclusion, which focuses on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other marginalized or vulnerable communities; and Just Governance, which highlights responsible leadership, the equal application of the rule of law, and the creation of fair systems for all.
As we expand our mission to align with the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), we continue to explore the diverse and interconnected factors that influence sustainability. By recognizing how these elements interact across local, national, and international levels, we aim to accelerate progress toward sustainability goals. In essence, this aligns with The SustainabilityX® Magazine's vision of integrating environmental and economic progress for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future through thoughtful dialogue.
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