Who says Ohio isn’t at the forefront of innovation and cutting-edge trends? While most of the nation is just now catching the Green fever, North East Ohio’s very own Beachwold (and surrounding) high school students are already leading the rest of us into a sustainable future, today.
Heralded as the world’s most successful Junior Achievement [...]
Company Name: BayingHound.com
Company Type: Privately Owned LLC
URL/Location: www.BayingHound.com
Contact Information: Rachel Tayse Baillieul: rachel@bayinghound.com
Can Offer Facility Tours To: A YGR Representative
Company Description:
We are an online retailer selling eco-friendly gear for outdoor recreation and every day use. Specifically, we sell reusable bags, BPA-free metal water bottles, earth friendly merino wool apparel and eco-accessories.
After oil, coffee is the most valuable trading commodity in the world, yet prices paid to farmers are at a 30-year low despite the $80 billion (and growing) market. Demand for livable wages has spurred the growth of Fair Trading and ethical buying, resulting in one of the fastest growing sectors in the Green [...]
Company Name: Shop Near
Company Type: Privately Owned
URL/Location: www.ShopNear.net
Contact Information: local@ShopNear.net
Company Description:
Local Green Living. Find Green living products and services nearby and network with others interested in the same. Buy local and be Green!
Sustainable Business Practices:
Our Principals:
Authenticity: Support products and services “Worthy of trust” because they have been created or designed by people who pay [...]
What does ‘Green’ mean to your company and how does reducing your ecological impact translate into cost savings, a stronger public image and improving the Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, Profit)? Do you go for the low hanging fruit, printing on both sides and investing in inexpensive power strips, or do you dive headlong into [...]
Company Name: American Canvas
Company Type: Privately Owned
URL/Location: www.americancanvas.blogspot.com
Contact Information: Brenda Direen 614-263-4178
American Canvas Can Provide Facility Tours to:
Unable to provide facility tours at this time
Company Description:
American Canvas is a screen printing studio that prints on sweatshop free apparel with numerous Eco friendly clothes and accessories for our clients to choose from!
Where does your ’stuff’ come from? How does it get from raw material to product and where does it end up when you throw it away?
We live in a ’stuff’-saturated community where the average American home contains around 10,000 objects and has more t.v.’s than people living in it. Each of us creates [...]
“Cosmetics products and ingredients are not subject to FDA premarket approval authority, with the exception of color additives…[the] FDA cannot require companies to do safety testing of their cosmetics before marketing.” (FDA website).
If that quote concerns you then pay very close attention to this next part excerpted from Healthy Child, Healthy World:
The average American uses [...]
Company Name: Organic and Natural Enterprise (ONE) Group
Company Type: Privately Owned
URL/Location: www.organicology.com
Contact Information: Stephanie Brua, Independent Representative
Can Provide Facility Tours To: A YGR representative
Company Description:
ONEgroup is leading the world in the development of certified organic skin, body, hair, oral, health care, and cosmetic products. Our three product brands – Miessence, MiEnviron, and MiVitality – are [...]
Halloween is almost here! Time to sneak treats, assume alternate identities, run around in the dark…and create massive amounts of solid waste? Yup, from trashed pumpkins and plastic decorations to single use costumes and candy wrappers we generate tons (litterally) of garbage every Halloween. YGR’s Green Halloween Guide is the first stop on your path [...]