We promote the use of renewable resources, alternative fuels, and ways to become more self sufficient while continuing to protect the environment and everything in it. 

- Our energy use in making "Olivia Chocolat" is hydro generated electricity from the Gatineau river which run our cocoa roasters, our Mélangeurs and all our chocolate finishing equipment.
- Our carton packaging paperboard is from a specialized and certified sustainable source from Sweden. The fibre used in the cartons and in-store displays meet the sourcing requirements of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program.
http://www.sfiprogram.org 

Our sustainability initiative revolves and evolves around five simple questions:
Do we really need it?
What is the product made of?
How is it made/packaged?
Can it be reused or recycled?
Where will this ultimately end up?

We are the first Chocolate Maker to successfully institute a program to provide incentive for stores to reuse our in-store chocolate display cases instead of discarding them.
At this point, we are proud to claim the we do not buy corrugated cardboard and have eliminated tertiary packaging for our chocolate; we reuse cardboard that suppliers send us and hand deliver our chocolate,... and then we reuse it again to deliver to the next store.

"All of our Chocolatiers are committed to environmental sustainability and our goal of  zero carbon footprint in everything we do; we recognize its impact on people and on the future of communities in which we all live."

David A. MacDonald MBA, P.Eng.
Founder