Sustainable Business List
Welcome to the Environmental Center's Sustainable Business List. The list allows businesses within the San Juan River watershed to highlight what they are doing to create a more sustainable and just world. If you'd like your business to appear on our list, just complete the Sustainable Business Inventory (MS Word version or Adobe PDF) and send it back to us along with photo or graphic. Our students will do the rest. Let others know how you're creating a more sustainable world. See a sample listing.
Our list doesn't play favorites! All businesses within the Four Corners region, broadly defined by the San Juan River watershed, can get be listed. Each listing will include a short description of the business and contact information so customers can get in touch with businesses directly to find out more information. Each listing will also identifies what type of business it is (locally-owned, independent business, publicly-traded corporation or franchise, employee-owned cooperative, etc.). Locally-owned, independent businesses that participate on the list and that join Local First, the new independent business alliance will get the special icon on their coupon in the Be Local Coupon Book.
Sustainable Business Icon for Be Local Coupon Book
Goals of the sustainable business list include:
- providing information to potential customers to help them make informed choices about where to spend their money
- encouraging businesses to communicate with each other about successful and sustainable practices
- acknowledging what business owners in our region have done
- inspire everyone to do more. The hope is to create a sustainable and just economy from the ground up
Listings (We are still collecting information from several businesses. We will have information for the rest of the list shortly)
Appaloosa Trading Company
Arete Mortgage
Bank of the San Juans
Basin Printing & Imaging
Brainstorm Internet
Cairo Café
CarbonZero
Carver Brewing Company
Dancing Willow Herbs
Durango Brewing Company
Durango Coffee Company
Durango Natural Foods
For the Birds
Fox Fire Farms
Fusion Interiors
Jitters' Java
Light Art of Durango
Maria's Bookshop
Mountain Bike Specialists
Native Roots Garden Center
Native Mother Naturals
Phoenix Recycling
Pine Needle Mountaineering
Rugmasters
Ska Brewing Company
Sylvan Dubois
Raider Ridge Cafe
Ski Barn
The Big Tomato Hydroponic and Organic Center
The Ore House
Ultrasteam Cleaning
Venture Snowboards
Zia Taqueria
We want to thank the following businesses for participating in the sustainable business research project that launched the list. Alpine Bank, Bank of the San Juans, Carver Brewing Company, Durango Natural Foods, Maria's Bookshop, Rochester Hotel and Leland House, Strater Hotel, Sunnyside Farms Market, Venture Snowboards, and Zia Taqueria.
More information and resources on sustainable and socially-responsible business practices are available in the Sustainability Resources portion of our website.
If you would like to help out with our sustainable business project, email EC Coordinator Marcus Renner.
