Conscientious businesses providing products/services to help reduce your carbon footprint

 

Sustain Charlotte

Sustain Charlotte is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and our mission is to inspire choices that lead to a healthy, equitable, and vibrant community for generations to come. We promote smart growth by collaborating with local neighborhoods, government agencies, nonprofits, and businesses to solve challenges to the long-term social, economic, and environmental health of our community. Our vision is a region in which everyone has the knowledge, resources and opportunity to make choices with a clear awareness of their combined social, economic and environmental impacts. Become a member today.

Location: 2151 Hawkins St., Ste 200, Charlotte. For more information, email [email protected] or visit SustainCharlotte.org. <Facebook> <Instagram> <Twitter>

 

Organic Harvest Community Grocery & Cafe

We offer 250+ options in our bulk department allowing you to bring your own jars and buy just what you need to reduce waste. Options range from grains, nuts, butters, herbs, spices, candy and even bar soaps and bath salts! Fill your own growlers with on tap kombucha from Sum Bucha and Updog. We also compost our perishables with Crowntown Compost. Our cups at our juicebar are all recycled Greenwise products and our plate ware is also compostable.

Location: 1330 Central Ave., Charlotte. For more information, call 980-299-5470 or visit OHGrocery.com. <Facebook><Instagram> <Twitter>

 

Organic Marketplace

Over the last 26 years, Organic Marketplace has sought to be at the forefront of business practices that lessen our collective carbon footprint. Raised beds in the rear of the store are for fresh "slow" food for Sprouts cafe as well as to beautify the environment. Our landscape has always been chemical-free and is bee/butterfly friendly with pollinator plants. Packaging waste is addressed with our bulk foods, herbs, and culinary spices department. Plastic bags were discontinued five years ago to combat plastic pollution in our Oceans.

Location: 1012 S. New Hope Rd., Gastonia. For more information, call 704-864-0605 or visit OrganicMarketplaceNC.com. <Facebook>

 

Berrybrook Natural Foods

Have you seen the red wagon at the corner of East and Kenilworth in Dilworth? These wagons carried hemp products 'til 1937 when hemp threatened the oil industry and sparked hemp’s demise, but the health food world continued to love hemp. Hemp biofuel is 86% greener than gas, uses 50% less water than cotton production, and it regenerates soil! CBD Oil from hemp also balances the endocannabinoid system of people and pets. Try Berrybrook’s organically grown CBD Oils for yourself, and God’s green Earth.

Location: 1257 East Blvd., Charlotte. For more information, call 704-334-6528 or visit BerrybrookFarm.com. <Facebook> <Twitter>

 

Mecklenburg County Recycling Centers

Support a full 360° from your yard to our facility and back again. Mecklenburg County upcycles your curbside yard waste and leaves into high quality STA approved compost and beautiful mulch. Recycling yard waste saves landfill space, is 100% local and is affordable. Delivery offered for bulk compost and mulch. Compost is also available in conveniently packaged 1.5 cubic foot bags. This Spring let Mecklenburg County help you reduce your carbon footprint with products for your yard available at the two recycling centers listed below.

Locations: Compost Central Recycling Center, 140 Valleydale Rd., Charlotte, 980-314-3880. Foxhole Recycling Center, 17131 Lancaster Hwy., Charlotte., 980-314-3845. Also visit MeckMulchMadness.com for pricing information. <Facebook>

 

 

Renewable Energy Design Group

RED Group is Charlotte’s trusted solar installer since 2012, we are a local company that cares about the environment and our customers. Our design proposals maximize energy production, and in turn, your investment. 2019 is the last year of the federal tax credit at 30%, so call us today for a free, no-pressure quotation. Let us help you save money and decrease your carbon footprint with an investment in solar energy.

Location: Solar Contractor serving all of North and South Carolina. For more information, call 877-520-7652 or visit RedGroupSolar.com. <Facebook><Instagram> <Twitter>

 

 

Sedona Waterproofing Solutions

Dedicated to helping families achieve healthier and energy-efficient homes. Offering moisture control and prevention, mold remediation, crawlspace repair and encapsulation – which results in an annual energy savings ranging from 15-30%, and ultimately cleaner, healthier air in your home. We seek to address the root-cause of your moisture issues and use best practices to resolve. Call today for a free inspection that includes a complete analysis with accompanying photos and several proposal/quotations to address issues to accommodate varying budgets.

Location: Supporting Mecklenburg, Catawba, Iredell, Union and Gaston Counties. For more information, call 704-960-7906 or visit SedonaWaterproofing.com. <Facebook><Instagram> <Twitter>

 

 

ARTfloors

If you are creative and willing to DIY the decoupage process developed by ARTfloors is eco-friendly, highly durable, can be layered over existing surfaces like tile, linoleum, plywood, cement, walls, laminate countertops, etc… and very affordable. With DIY videos and supplies such as professional grade Kraft paper, a unique coloring technique and quality sealer you can create the appearance of hardwoods, granite, marble, sandstone and more. Visit online photo gallery for images of actual installs and testimonials. Create a new look at a fraction of the cost.

Location: Online. For more information and to purchase DIY videos and supplies visit ARTfloors.net. <Facebook>

 

 

Dillsboro Inn’s Conservation Tourism

If you are open to or desiring a deeper connection with Mother Earth, the Dillsboro Inn is committed to helping further your relationship with the environment. Offering gentle yoga with the intent to calm the mind and connect with body and environment, 3-day/2-night retreats around the new and full moons, initiation into Mayan, Hopi, Huna and Cherokee codes, exploring ancestral wisdom and quantum essence-spirit concepts. Join us in the NC mountains on a whitewater river to develop or refine your intuition, quiet your soul and refresh your spirit.

Location: 146 N. River Rd., Dillsboro, N.C.. For more information, call 828-586-3898 or visit DillsboroInn.com. <Facebook>