Greg Bonser

Greg Bonser was born in Scarborough, Ontario on September 8, 1977.

He is the co-founder of Village Technologies with Gabriel Draven, which Bonser initiated as a rebranding and expansion of the green building work he has been undertaking since the mid 1990s.

Bonser was active in the Green Party of Ontario from 1996 to 2003, serving on the provincial council for two terms, as the operations coordinator for one term. During that time, he was the creator of what was later called the Bonser Method, a meeting operations and voting protocol developed to develop policy at face to face meetings. This system is still in use today by the Green Party of Ontario as well as the national party and other provincial Green parties.

Bonser has run in numerous elections, most notably, for Toronto City Council in 2003 in Ward 30, for the seat vacated by Jack Layton. He did not win that election, but a question asked at a all candidates debate "if we had instant run off voting, where you voted for first, second and third choices, which other candidates would you vote for?" revealed that the top four candidates all chose Bonser as their second choice. (The moderator did not let the candidates answer in front of the crowd, so the questioner asked individual candidates after the meeting).

Bonser hasd had numerous articles written on him and his work in the "Toronto Star", "NOW", "Eye Weekly" and other local Toronto print media and has made TV appearances on news segments for Global Toronto, CBC Television, CBC Radio and TVOntario on the topics of green building, energy policy, and ecological health issues.