Your Green Review

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 attention to the details and are deeply invested in the final products.

Local Economies: Provide a new type of venue to promote goods and services offered independently with locally sourced inputs wherever sustainable and possible .

Community: Create a new avenue of support for community organizations.  1% of profits go to an organization in the region where the product you purchased was produced.  We are located off the grid

List of Certifications Held and Methods of Compliance:

We are not a manufacturer.  However, we market many products that are certified organic or fair trade, and these products are identified as such.

For Products/Services Not Certified, Explain Production Methods/Materials/Practices Which Make Them ‘Green’ (including definitions for unregulated terms):

For non-certified products, as with certified products, we research manufacturing methods and materials before deciding to include the item.

“Natural” generally includes products made from renewable resources like bamboo.

Media Coverage:

Look for Shop Near to be featured in TriplePundit.com

Message To Customers/Community:

Local Green Living: A world of creative local communities each part of a sustainable ecosystem of local economies.  That is our vision.  To help reach it, we were already hand-building a 100% solar power, off-the-grid home.  We believe in buying local, so we were also buying at farmer’s markets and our coop as well as growing a modest amount of our food.  The more committed we became, the more we realized how hard it is to find locally-made non-food items.  The concept of Shop Near,  a place for local Green living, was born.

We welcome questions about Green living and have personla experience in Green building, organic gardening and off the grid living which we love to share!