Climate Marketplace
The Climate Marketplace is a listing of sustainable and climate friendly businesses. These are businesses demonstrating that profits don’t have to come at the expense of the environment and our future.*
About Solid State Clothing
We use natural dyes and recycle textile waste, ensuring that our production processes are environmentally responsible. Our local manufacturing significantly lowers our carbon footprint by minimizing transportation emissions. By collaborating directly with local farmers, manufacturers, and artisans, we ensure our products are made sustainably and ethically. Through these efforts, Solid State Clothing exemplifies how fashion can be exceptional and environmentally conscious.
Green House Restaurant
About The Green House Restaurant
The Mission of The Green House is to bring intentional and sustainable practices to local dining in order to positively affect global environmental change. The Green House wants you to know what it brings to the table, literally and figuratively. Our mission encompasses not only your dining experience but also leads by example through every action. Each decision in the development and implementation of The Green House has been been made with intention: from sourcing choices to materials to carefully researched suppliers and ingredients.
About The ReCollective
The ReCollective makes recycling simple by picking up hard-to-recycle household materials like plastic bags, batteries, bulbs, textiles, Styrofoam, organics, and more—right from your front door. We help you clear out clutter and make sure these items get a new life instead of ending up in a landfill. The ReCollective serves most areas in the Triangle, including Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary, Morrisville, and Hillsborough. Membership starts at just $15.50 per month.
About Living Roofs
Living Roofs specializes in end-to-end implementation of green roofs and landscapes on structure. Living Roofs’ award-winning green roofs provide significant environmental benefits including stormwater reduction, added biodiversity, and reduction in roof surface temperatures which, in turn, reduce urban heat island effect. LRI sources local materials for projects when possible— from growing media, to locally-fabricated edging and planters, to plants— and includes native species in planting plans to provide habitat for pollinators.
About Living Roofs
Larry’s occupies three buildings with a roastery in the center, incorporating solar water-heated floors, rainwater-driven restrooms and a massive passive-solar clear story. Nearly all Larry’s Coffee is Organic, Fair Trade and Shade-Grown, (including the fully recyclable k-cups the company recently launched). Larry’s is a certified B-Corp and a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, a group of coffee roasters importing coffee directly from farmers with the goal of defining a higher standard of partnership and fairness.
About Murphy’s Naturals
Doing good by prioritizing both people and the environment, all while delivering high-quality mosquito protection to help people get outdoors. We are doing our best to protect, nurture, and sustain the planet for the better. Practically, this looks like company-wide composting, annually offsetting our plastic outputs and giving 2% of our revenues to environmentally-minded organizations working to preserve the earth’s natural resources. We believe in utilizing the highest quality of natural ingredients available to us. By doing so, we not only remove skeptical synthetics (like dyes, fragrances, and gear-damaging chemicals) but we are celebrating what Mother Nature has to offer!
About Project Repat
At Project Repat, proudly one of the biggest upcycling companies in the country, we are dedicated to upcycling cherished t-shirts into custom quilts – turning memories into something you can hold onto forever. Partnering with a worker-owned factory in North Carolina, we are committed to ethical production practices. We ship our quilts in sustainable polymailers, and with over 1 million quilts made, we’ve saved more than 25 million t-shirts from being discarded in landfills. We also turn our leftover t-shirt scraps into socks, called Scrappy Socks!
About Village Fabric Shop
Village Fabric Shop specializes in environmentally responsible textiles, notions, and crafting goods that inspire people to create, celebrate and craft traditions. We believe in Ecological Responsibility. One the most sustainable ways to craft is to reuse materials and our reuse space keeps materials out of landfills. We carry all natural fibers in cotton, linen, wool, silk, and ecovero viscose. We source many of our notions and craft kits from small indie brands with lower carbon footprint than big business.
About Diamond Brand Tentmakers
Diamond Brand is an American-heritage outdoor gear manufacturer established in 1881. We blend traditional craftsmanship with modern innovation to produce eco-forward canvas wall tents and upcycled tent bags for all types of outdoor enthusiasts and adventurers. We prioritize ethical, sustainable and responsible business in their commitment to leave a legacy for the future, creating durable and sustainable gear that supports the greater good, people and the planet.
About Epoch Rain Barrels
Epoch is an environmentally-friendly, ethically and socially conscious company providing products that support a more “People-Friendly, Earth-Friendly” lifestyle. We make our rain barrels by repurposing high-quality food-grade container drums, previously destined for the landfill. We use lean manufacturing processes, reducing environmental waste. We do things the hard way but what we consider to be the “right way.” We take waste products and re-purpose them into conservation products.
About Hempsmith
Pittsboro, NC based Hempsmith makes clothing out of the industrial hemp fiber. The hemp plant sequesters carbon in its root system and biomass as it grows. It produces a strong fiber that can be used to make durable clothing that is long lasting. Hemp can play a big role in displacing petroleum by offering a renewable alternative to synthetic fibers. Our dyes and prints are done in-house and use plant based indigo dye where possible.
About CompostNow
CompostNow is a B Corp Certified solutions provider for organics recycling with expertise in organics hauling, logistics, and consultation, as well as compost production and distribution. Our collection services and network of facilities help thousands of homes and businesses compost over a million pounds of pre and post-consumer organic waste each month. CompostNow’s work is rooted at the intersection of healthy people and healthy planet, and our mission is to rebuild the health of our soil by diverting waste from landfills.
About Greenology
Greenology Products is a developer and manufacturer of organic and biobased cleaning and personal care products. Our goal is to create products that are better for people, pets, and the planet, but formulating plant-derived products that limit the impact on the environment and human health. We focus on sourcing responsibly, while promoting recyclable packaging, clean ingredients, and healthier lifestyles. We are working towards becoming a zero waste facility by 2025. We strive to partner with businesses who have sustainability goals and have unique climate-related policies.
Everyday Oil
About Everyday Oil
At Everyday Oil, we do our best to do good for all. We make choices and strive toward sustainability in our operations. Everyday Oil is committed to reducing our environmental impact through thoughtful packaging and product design. We package our products in glass bottles and offer aluminum refills, which minimizes plastic waste and encourages reuse. Our multipurpose formula promotes conservation by reducing the need for multiple skin and body care products, lowering consumption. We are proud to never ship with plastic.
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About Fillaree
Let’s team up to fight waste with our circular refill system! We’ll take back your bags, wash them, and use them for the next refill. And the best part? We’ll cover the cost! Our soaps are not only effective and gentle on your hands and body, but they’re safe for our water ways! 70+ refill stations located across the United States or enjoy the convenience of refilling your products from the comfort of your own home with our 0.5 gallon boxes. Don’t forget to subscribe and save for even more value!