Timberland Canada’s Headquarters at Evergreen

A few months ago, after spending some time at the Toronto International Film Festival, I had the privilege of visiting Timberland Canada’s Headquarters at the Evergreen Brick Works campus, a community environmental center that inspires and equips visitors to live, work and play more sustainably. Evergreen, a national charity, transformed the former Don Valley Brick Works from a collection of deteriorating buildings into an international showcase for urban sustainability and green design.

Josh, Timberland Canada marketer and tour guide extraordinaire, showed me around, pointing out features that make this campus the epitome of sustainable building and design. LEED® Platinum Certified, the center is expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 50 percent. While that alone is impressive, I was really blown away by the innovative eco-conscious features we found around every corner. A few of botas timberland my favorites:

The Evergreen Brick Works building was constructed on top of the foundation from the former Don Valley Brick works – they even left the old graffiti on the bricks!
There’s a garden center filled with local produce on site, with proceeds going to fund Evergreen’s efforts.
Solar Chimneys help remove hot air from the building and reduce the need for air conditioning.
Large rainwater harvesting cisterns collect rainwater from the rooftops and reuse it in the campus’ toilets and garden.
The parking lot’s concrete is pervious, which allows water to go back into the ground and maintain a natural cycle.
The timberland portugal LED parking lot lights are specially designed to direct light downward, keeping the sky naturally dark for bats, insects and other animals.

You can learn more about Evergreen Brick Works, and even take your own tour, at .

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Timberland employees are always quick

Timberland employees are always quick to lend a hand in community service. This holiday season, we offered employees the chance to open their hearts (and wallets) by purchasing a gift for someone in need in the local community. On a holiday tree in our cafeteria area, we hung tags containing wish-list items for individuals supported by several local nonprofit organizations.

We started by hanging about 50 tags. Within three hours, all were gone. We needed more! I reached out to our service partners for more names and more wish lists. As fast as we could hang more tags, Timberland employees scooped them up. Our original target of serving 50 individuals soon increased to more than 80.

But we didn’t stop there. At our in-house wrapping party, 20 employees added bows, tags, and ribbon to 146 packages. We sent elves (who looked sapatilhas timberland suspiciously like bootmakers…) out to each of our partner organizations to deliver bundles of gifts to some very deserving folks.

Jolly Timberland volunteers wrapping some of the donated gifts!

When all was said and done, we supported five local organizations with 150 gifts delivered to 84 individuals through the efforts of more than 90 volunteers! And although it’s been said, many times, many ways…we couldn’t help feeling that it truly is better to give than to receive.

Our version of Santa's sleigh, piled high with gifts

Special thanks to our nonprofit partners for allowing us the chance to share our gifts during the holidays: Seacoast Family Promise, Our House for Girls, The Housing Partnership, New Generation, and AIDS Response Seacoast.

And thanks to all our employees who got involved—once again, you’ve helped Timberland make timberland portugal a difference!

I love my job: sharing gifts with one very happy recipient

For Timberland consumers

For Timberland consumers who appreciate how our products look, feel and perform but have no interest whatsoever in understanding the innovative technology inside them, we proudly introduce 10-sec tech – Timberland’s lighthearted attempt at making you aware of the quality attributes of our products without actually explaining them at all.

Without further ado, we give you Gripstick Technology*:

What? You don’t think geckos and tiny plungers are innovative technology? Clearly you haven’t tried our Formentor boat shoes – those suckers are sticky.

Inquiring minds who do want to better understand the “grip” inside our Gripstick Technology are invited to click here for serious and legitimate information that explains timberland portugal the materials and technology that help our boat shoes perform so well.

The rest of you can stay tuned to the Bootmakers botas timberland Blog for future installments of Timberland’s 10-sec tech … because life is too short to take yourself (or your shoes) too seriously.

*No geckos were harmed in the making of this video.

Every four years the greatest sailors

Every four years the greatest sailors in the world compete for glory – and this year, Timberland is going along for the sail as the sponsor of the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation. Between races, we sat down with three members of the team so we could get botas timberland to know them a little better:

Onan Barreiros

1. The most incredible place Onan timberland portugal Barreiros has ever sailed is the Bahamas.

2. If he wasn’t sailing, Onan would be playing football.

3. His second favorite outdoor activity is road biking.

Federico Alonso

4. Federico Alonso isn’t superstitious, but he always sails the day before a championship starts.

5. If Federico had to give his boat a name, it would be Miura (that’s what he called his first wooden boat).

6. Even sailors get seasick. He’s been sick on a boat and knows it’s a pretty nasty feeling!

Aaron Sarmiento

7. When Aaron Sarmiento isn’t on the water, he likes to bike, run and play tennis.

8. If Aaron wasn’t a sailor, he’d like to be a professor.

9. He started sailing when he was 11 years old!

And the #10 thing you might not know about the Spanish sailors is that they all consider good grip one of the most essential features in their footwear. It’s a good thing they’re wearing Timberland Formentor boat shoes with Gripstick rubber to keep them on deck and on course.

The Royal Spanish Sailing Federation knows the no. 1 rule to looking good on a boat (and winning the race) is staying on the boat. Follow in their slip-free footsteps and get your own pair of Formentors by shopping our boat shoe collection.

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Our Timberland service

Our Timberland service sabbatical recipients, Alan and Heather, are several days in to their week-long Louisiana bayou immersion. The two have been hard at work, but took time out to share the following update and incredible photos with us:

It has been a blast living and working with the 27 teammates of the 4th annual In Good Company partnership event.

We are spending much of botas timberland this week working with the Restore the Earth Foundation, an incredible nonprofit focused on environmental conservation, protection and restoration. One of Restore the Earth’s initiatives is called Gulf Saver Solutions, and it entails “deploying” Gulf Saver bags — full of native marsh grasses and oil-eating micro-organisms which help to protect and restore natural wetland ecosystems and habitats. This week, our team has been working on filling, moving, staking and timberland portugal planting 4,000 Gulf Saver bags. Ours is the largest deployment to date!

Alan and team celebrate filling their Gulf Saver bags.

Heather (on left) and other volunteers "planting" the Gulf Saver bags.

Inside the Gulf Saver bags, we also plant black mangrove trees. The mangroves not only prevent land erosion, but also provide nesting grounds for the threatened brown pelican.

Mangrove planting

Tracy the barge driver

The gentleman above is Tracy. He was the driver of the barge we used to transport and offload our materials from the much larger ship that carried the 42 pallets containing the 4000 bags to the site. He is a local who has lived, fished and worked in these coastal waters his entire life, and like many, assumed that the eroding landscape was a force of man and nature that could not be avoided. The work being done by Restore the Earth has changed his mind:

“I helped deliver these bags to the first 2 sites and honestly thought this was a waste of time, that the plants and soil would just wash away. After revisiting the sites a few weeks ago, I am amazed and now see that this is going to work.”

Seeing really is believing. Here’s an aerial view of one of the Gulf Saver bag sites just 2 weeks after the bags were deployed, and then again about 5 months later. The progress is amazing!

Of course, our week is not all work and no play. Tomorrow we’ll share a video one of our In Good Company colleagues put together of our “day off” adventures. It’s been a great week and an incredible experience so far.