Credit Valley Conservation presents Evergreen and its partner EcoSource with a second Friends of the Credit Award for its habitat stewardship work and volunteer engagement on the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.

Imagine Canada awards Evergreen an Honourable Mention in its annual Community Partnership Awards for Evergreen's longstanding partnership with Toyota Canada Inc. to make Canadian school grounds healthier, more natural places to play, learn and grow.

Evergreen's Executive Director, Geoff Cape, is named an international Ashoka Senior Fellow for his unique approach to the relationship between people and nature in cities. Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a global organization that recognizes social entrepreneurs who are delivering innovative solutions to social problems in their communities.

With its first offerings in the province of Alberta, Evergreen's green space protection workshops were endorsed by the Alberta Association - Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canada West Foundation, in addition to the BC Society of Landscape Architects, Planning Institute of British Columbia, SmartGrowth BC, Ontario Professional Planners Institute, Ontario Association of Landscape Architects and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

Evergreen receives a Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM) Award for Excellence in Environmental Education in the category of Non-Profit Organization for its Learning Grounds program.

Eva's Initiatives, a Toronto-based organization that creates opportunities for homeless youth, presented Evergreen with an Award of Distinction for its work involving homeless and at-risk youth in community gardening activities on the grounds of their facilities.

International experts in urban planning and cultural revitalization identified Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works as one of the most exciting and innovative urban projects taking place in the world today. Creative Spaces: Strategies for Creative Cities project, a three-year joint venture between the cities of London and Toronto, studied 50 cities in over 75 countries.

Geoff Cape, Evergreen's Executive Director, is selected as one of three recipients in the Leadership category of the first annual Green Toronto Awards. In addition, one of Evergreen's dedicated habitat restoration volunteers, Jennifer Gordon, was the first place winner in the Youth category.

Geoff Cape, Evergreen's Executive Director, is recognized by the Village Post newspaper's Third Annual Perfect Planet Awards, winning the Local Project Award for his role in developing an innovative plan to transform one of Toronto's historic industrial landmarks, the Don Valley Brick Works, into a thriving environmentally based, mixed-use cultural attraction and community centre.