Simply Good Jars offers delicious, organic salads with locally sourced ingredients, delivered in reusable plastic jars. This company was founded with the goal of helping end our dependence on single-use plastics. At the company’s inception, Simply Smart Fridges were installed in airports and work places, with plastic jar return receptacles right beside the fridges. They
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Comon Yaj Noptic is a cooperative of organic coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico founded in 1995. They work closely with our friends at Equal Exchange and some of their beans are used in Equal Exchange coffees. The farmers not only grow organically, but they participate in wildlife and ecological monitoring, particularly of the local birds.
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Accelerating Appalachia is a business accelerator, an organization that connects young businesses with funding, education, and support to help their ventures succeed. Accelerating Appalachia is a “regenerative economy accelerator” to support businesses that are beyond sustainable and actually help to regenerate the soil, the water, the landscape, and the economy. Founder Sara Day Evans, a
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Witness to Innocence (WTI) is the only national organization in the United States composed of and led by exonerated death row survivors and their family members. The mission of WTI is to abolish the death penalty by empowering exonerated death row inmates and their loved ones to become effective leaders in the abolition movement. They
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Iron Man, Inc. is an iron works that produces wrought iron fencing, gates, fire escapes, and other products while employing vulnerable people who might not otherwise have the opportunity for gainful employment. Located about 15 minutes from the Untours office, Iron Man competes with large shops and big box stores through artistry and attention to
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Based in Kenya and Philadelphia, Tosheka Textiles is working to set new standards in their industry and breaking new ground for textile production in Africa with a focus on sustainability. Tosheka Textiles employs and trains Kenyan women to weave and crochet its designs using organic and recycled materials and even upcycled plastic bags. In
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Home Care Associates is a worker-owned company that provides skilled home care aides in the greater Philadelphia area. The direct care industry is one that employs a large percentage of BIPOC caregivers in its workforce, and many companies in the industry pay only a small portion of their hourly rate to their workers. The work
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Belu is a UK-based beverage company that is rethinking and repairing some of the damage of the bottled water industry. From its founding, Belu’s goal has been to give away its profits. The company currently gives away 100% of its profits to WaterAid, in support of providing clean drinking water in places that lack it.
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SosteNica is a non-profit financial institute that integrates environmental and educational projects with financial services, creating a holistic and long-term approach to poverty alleviation in Nicaragua. A trail blazer in its vision and actions to live gently on this planet, SosteNica creates an important model for green development. Programs center on sustainable housing and agriculture
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Since the opening of its first storefront in 1950, SERRV International has worked to bring fairly sourced crafts and foodstuffs to market. SERRV sells a wide range of housewares, crafts, clothing, foods, and gifts, all fairly traded and responsibly made. As one of the first Fair Trade organizations in the world, they have extended to
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