Josh Matlow

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Josh Matlow (born November 27, 1975) is a Canadian environmentalist, journalist and politician and has represented the midtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's since 2003 at the Toronto District School Board. He is a former director of Earthroots, an Ontario environmental non-governmental organization where he worked on achieving protection legislation for the Oak Ridges Moraine - the Oak Ridges Conservation Act 2001, former campaign organizer for the Canadian Peace Alliance [1] and ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a 2002 provincial by-election against then-Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves.

As a Toronto District School Board trustee, he initiated a cell phone ban inside Toronto's public schools, a "Green Grid" project [2]that will see renewable energy generators (such as solar panels) on school rooftops, homework policy reform [3], campaigned to keep Toronto's school pools open[4] and against a proposal to create an Africentric school in Toronto[5]. In his municipal election campaigns he does not accept donations from either unions or corporations. [6]

Matlow has written articles and columns for the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Organic Earth Magazine, Town Crier Newspapers and is a weekly contributer on Toronto talk-radio station AM 640.