The Energy Probe Research Foundation is one of Canada’s leading environmental and public policy research institutes. Our divisions — Energy Probe, Probe International, Environment Probe, Rights Probe, Urban Renaissance Institute, Environmental Bureau of Investigation, and the Margaret Laurence Fund — are well known public-interest defenders. The goals of the Foundation are to provide the public, media, business, and government with information on resource-related issues, to promote sustainable resource use, to encourage individual responsibility and accountability, and to help Canada contribute to global justice and prosperity.

EPRF’s senior public policy researchers have been with us for 20-30 years, demonstrating extraordinary commitment to the environment, showing tenacity in pushing for fundamental rights, and winning honours including entries in Canada’s Who’s Who, recognition by Time Canada of Canadians likely to make a difference to the country, membership in Ontario’s Independent Market Operator, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and various conservation awards. But the foundation is much more: Over the years it has been assisted by a motivated team of interns and volunteers, and supported by tens of thousands of Canadian donors from all walks of life.

Our work is also distinguished by its academic standing. Our books — published by academic publishers in Canada, the United States, and France — have been adopted by university courses, and our work appears in leading university texts. Our books have also been translated into the Spanish, Bengali, Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Estonian, and Finnish languages.

Our board of directors has shown a long-term commitment to our foundation and to the environment. Over the years, board members have included leaders of Canadian society such as Thomas Berger, George Erasmus, the Right Reverend Lois Wilson, George Ignatieff, Jane Jacobs, Margaret Laurence, Walter Pitman, and David Suzuki.