efficiency of residential and small commercial buildingsand in generating substantial local economic activity in the process. As non-profit community groups they were not in themselves ESCOs, but employed a similar philosophy of generating prosperity through savings. A complementary project of the Toronto GCI group, in collaboration with the Community Economic Development Secretariat of the (NDP) provincial government, was the compilation of a guide to green products and services. The guide was intended to be given to building owners by home greenup inspectors who would first make recommendations to owners about measures to reduce their energy and materials consumption. All products and services to be listed were well-researched by local activists and academics, and certified according to criteria that included social as well as environmental factors. Potential consumers of the directory-listed products could be assured that their consumption would go toward supporting legitimate local green businesses, and that economic benefits that would stay in their community. And, because of the linkage with the building audit, they could also be sure that their consumption of certified building products, appliances, etc. would result in a net reduction of resource consumption. The project unfortunately was aborted in June 1995, just as the first directory was completed and printed for distribution, due to the election of a right-wing provincial government. Some elements of the project are slowly being reconstituted by now autonomous community groups, but some other crucial plans for the directory project must be mentioned. They involve green market creation. The intention of project designersRobin Murray and Keith Collinswas that it could create a cohesive green