The Durango Sustainable Business Guide below features 40+ unique brands. Now you can make a postive impact with our dollars. The Guide is filled with everyday home goods, gifts, and services from businesses committed to a triple bottom line business model—prioritizing people, the planet, and profitability in our community.
NoMAD
Clothing + Furniture Consignment
Woman Owned
NoMAD is a resale shop with a funky collection of hand selected, second hand clothing for men and women. You'll also find upcycled furniture and unique home decor. Follow NOMAD on Instagram or Facebook for dates for in-store events and scrap booking workshops sales or ask about custom painting your furniture!
Sustainability: "We feel good knowing that each of our customers is helping us save millions of pounds of clothing and household goods from being wasted in our landfills. Upcycle Your Journey!"
The Flying Hatter
Durango's Hat Company
Woman Owned
The Flying Hatter upcycles pre-worn custom styled western, fedora, and open crown hats which are hand shaped and adorned with locally sourced and recycled high quality rooster feathers, bones, yucca points, and more. All hats are made locally in Durango by two hatters crafting with traditional hat making methods pouncing, blocking and sewing by hand.
Sustainability: The Flying Hatter recycles materials thrifted from local second hand and vintage stores as well as flea markets and estate sales. The Flying Hatter cleans each hat and then replaces the sweat bands and liners, adding their own recycled hatbands for an artist touch. No production technique is out-sourced, manufactured or mass produced.
DWolf Designs
Fine Art + Custom Framing
Woman Owned
Deb Wolf, owner of DWolf Designs Fine Art is a Painter and mixed media artist from Durango, Colorado.
Sustainability: The majority of materials used for painting and framing are repurposed, re-using wood palettes found around town to build frames; painting on used canvas, wood, or plexiglass; and using recycled paper on the backs of each original piece of art.
Moonbeam Art and Design
Fine Art
Woman Owned
Bed & Breakfast
Woman Owned
The Gable House
The Gable House, built in 1892, is listed on the National and State Historic Register. It is an elegant Queen Anne Victorian home, in the heart of Durango. The picturesque tree-lined street, quiet neighborhood, and easy walkability to downtown are all part of the charm and warmth of this true Bed & Breakfast.
Sustainability: The Gable House uses only washable dishes and utensils for meals and guest use, eliminating the need for single use plastics. Breakfast items are homemade using local and organic ingredients and food scraps are composted. Daily linen service are not offered (w/ exception for special needs). Guest items, such as, soap, shampoo, and conditioner are locally made in a solid form, eliminating the need for plastic containers.
Cura.Te
Beauty + Cleaning
Woman Owned
Cura.Te makes products right here in Durango for home, bath, body, pets, and oral care. They also make Medicinal Tea Blends from wild harvested and organic herbs.
Sustainability: Cura.Te is certified organic and is conscious of their impact on the environment. Most of their products come in refillable/reusable containers and they do offer refills to the local community. Their packaging is mostly recycled, post-consumer sources, and reusable. Cura.Te is committed to using ingredients and resources from the earth. A lot of “natural” products on the market use ingredients that are harmful to the environment, while Cura.Te uses ingredients that are safe for everyone (including your furry friends) and the environment.
Make Me Up Connie
Beauty Salon
Woman of Color Owned
My goal with Make Me Up Connie LLC at Beauty Bar in Durango, CO is to offer a range of beauty and grooming services to the local community within the Four Corners. My specialty is in brow and face threading, which I prefer for all my clients for facial hair removal.
Sustainability: I have begun using organic cotton thread for all brow and face services for my clientele. I will be offering face and body sugaring soon, that is also an organic product with little compostable waste. I strive to completely use as many recyclable and non-toxic products within my salon as possible.
Oh So Soft
Beauty - Lotion
Woman Owned
Oh So Soft lotion bars are hand crafted with only four ingredients: raw unrefined shea butter, beeswax, coconut oil and essential/fragrance oils. Beeswax is waterproof so it seals in moisture. Apply after you shower when your skin is moist and soft. The waterproof quality means that it won’t wash off after one application. Your hands will stay hydrated after several washings. Shea butter is the superhero for moisturizing skin. It melts right into your skin leaving it soft and supple.
Sustainability: Oh So Soft is all natural, meaning they don't add harmful chemicals or dyes. With bar lotion there is no wasted plastic bottle or pump to find its way into the landfill, our water ways and oceans. Plus, lotion bars come in a tin that can be repurposed to hold a variety of items such as hair ties, paper clips or earrings.
Passion Flower Beauty
Beauty - Bath and More
Woman Owned
Passion Flower Beauty is based in Durango, CO. Passion Flower Beauty is for those who love natural and organic cosmetics and beauty. All products—from bath balms and soaps to hair elixers, shampoo, and conditioner bars—are made in small batches and some are even made to order. If you don't see your favorite color, scent or shape, you can request a special order just for you.
Sustainability: Passion Flower Beauty uses all natural and organic ingredients and zero harsh chemicals. Their packaging and shipping bags are backyard compostable as well.
Why Shop Passion Flower Beauty? These ladies are beauty artists, anything is possible, and everything is hand made. Our favorites are the succulent soap and hair conditioner bars. Passion Flower Beauty has something for everyone, every age and every body.
WeFill
Refill + Zero Waste Store
Woman Owned
Single-use plastics, a seemingly insurmountable worldwide dilemma, is overwhelming but can be approached one container at a time.
WeFill is taking an active role in creating a solution to reduce single-use plastic pollution by offering a refilling station for earth-friendly household and personal-care products.
They have a large selection of organic, palm oil-free castile soaps, hair care products, organic facial products, bath salts, organic hand sanitizers, and plant-based cleaning supplies. All refillables are sold by the ounce so you can test small amounts before committing to larger quantities.
They also offer plastic free alternatives, such as produce bags, compostable dental floss, toothpaste tablets, bamboo utensils, reusable ear swabs, and so much more.
WeFill is also proud to offer products from 5 other Colorado businesses (4 of which are women-owned), and our top sellers are package-free, locally-made shampoo, conditioner, shaving, lotion, and soap bars by Passion Flower Beauty.
Roll ebike + SUP
Bike - Electric
Woman Owned
Roll is a solar powered electric bike and stand up paddle board rental and delivery company. Roll delivers ebikes to your home, VRBO, Airbnb, hotel, or friend's home within 10 miles of Durango. Roll also delivers SUP'S to the Oxbo put-in on the North end of the Animas River. Spend a day on the river and enjoy a cruise by ebike, enjoy a gourmet picnic lunch on the beach, and then paddle down river!
Sustainability:
- Our sales come from zero-carbon activities (ebikes/SUPs)
- Our office is solar powered
- Our ebikes are solar charged
- Our ebikes/SUPs are delivered by hybrid electric car
- Our vehicle carbon footprint is offset thru 4CORE's local carbon program
- Our lunches are sourced from local farms and come in reusable bento boxes
- We gift reusable water bottles to all guests
Dorothy Parker Design
Interior Design
Woman Owned
Dorothy Parker Design is a sustainable interior design firm with roots in Durango and the San Francisco Bay Area. They are passionate about sustainable and approachable design with an artful juxtaposition. Dorothy Parker's years of experience with acclaimed interior designers has given her diverse residential projects that span different budgets and styles. For home projects big or small, they tackle each design project by bridging the design world with your true sense of home.
Sustainability: From finishes to furniture, Dorothy Parker Design takes sustainability and healthy living into consideration for each item selected. Wether it’s renovating existing furniture or finding new pieces made from responsibly made materials, Dorothy Parker brings sustainability into your home.
Mantell-Hecathorn Builders
Builder
Greg and Hunter Mantell-Hecathorn proudly represent the only 2 builders in Colorado to earn the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Designation of Master Certified Green Professional. Dedication to excellence continues with Hunter Mantell-Hecathorn as President, who is hands-on with daily operations and executing the details of Certified High Performance homes. With over 20 years of experience his knowledge, expertise and integrity give every homeowner absolute confidence. Their superior quality standards and commitment to Certified High Performance homes truly sets M-H apart from other builders.
Sustainability: Every Mantell-Hecathorn Builders home goes through rigorous third-party testing and certification under these programs: ENERGY STAR, DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes, and/or EPA Indoor Air Plus.
Shaw Solar
Solar Power
Shaw Solar is a full-service solar company based in Durango, CO, specializing in solar design and installation as well as battery storage. Since their inception, the goal has been to provide matchless customer service and help our clients find the right solutions to their energy goals. Shaw Solar specializes in solar installations for small homes as well as large commercial buildings and municipalities.
Sustainability: Shaw Solar is Southwest Colorado's first Certified B Corporation®. This means Shaw Solar has been thoroughly vetted and certified as a business force for environmental, social, and economic good. Essentially, it means they care about a lot more than profit.
Basecamp
Vegan Restaurant
Basecamp is a 100% vegan restaurant which sources local, organic ingredients as much as possible. They partner with other local sustainable businesses on special events, featuring their products in Basecamp's market, and on the menu.
Sustainability: In addition to being a community minded vegan restaurant, Basecamp's sustainable business practices include: purchasing all items in compostable, recyclable containers and utilize only compostable to go containers; keep food waste at a minimum by using all parts of the food, donating unused food, and composting kitchen food waste; and up-cycle wine and liquor bottles into candles for purchase with the profits going to select farm animal sanctuaries.
Grassburger
Restaurant
Woman Owned
Grassburger has taken the iconic experience of eating a burger and made it better ... for you, the animals and the planet! After looking for years for a place to take our family for burgers we could feel good about, we created it! Grassburgers are healthier, delicious, allergy-friendly and planet-friendly. Our grass-fed cattle live a happy, active life on a forage diet as nature intended.
Sustainability: Grassburger's 100% USA raised, grass-fed cattle are never held in confinement, are antibiotic and hormone free, and are humanely certified. We stand behind holistic/regenerative practices for the reduction of carbon gases, the restoration of the land and the health of the planet. We serve on sustainable and recycled products and our fryer oil is recycled for biofuel.
Omni Bagels
Adventure Bagels & Schmear
Pick Up & Delivery
LGTBQ+ Owned
Omni Bagel is Colorado’s Alpine Adventure Bagel company based in Durango, CO. Their bagels and schmears are made by hand with the one of a kind Omni method using locally sourced ingredients. Omni Schmears are created to perfectly compliment each of their unique Omni flavors for an experience you won’t beat!
Sustainability: Their packaging is made from wood pulp and is 100% home compostable. Their commitment to sustainability and locally sourced ingredients has created a high-quality product you can’t find anywhere else.
Botanical Companions
Microgreens Delivered
Woman Owned
Botanical Companions provides premium sun-grown microgreens for Durango, Mancos, Cortez, & Telluride all year-round, including specialty microgreen products.
Sustainability: Investing in a four-season insulated passive solar greenhouse, Botanical Companions relies on pure sunshine for creating and maintaining energy efficiency while also benefiting the quality of the crop! When needed, LED grow lights were chosen to extend the darkest of days in winter. Currently, ~90% of their microgreens come with zero waste through their exchange of food-grade reusable packaging direct to restaurants, through their home subscription, and at farmers markets. The other 10% is supplied in compostable containers. Their newest offering, the favored Microgreen Super Salt, just became "reusable" and is now available in home compostable kraft refill pouches to refill your glass shaker!
Heart Song Chocolate
Organic Chocolate Bars
Woman Owned
Heart Song Chocolate sources all cacao, cacao butter, and cardamom directly from a small community of organic farms in Guatemala. They believe the chocolate that brings you joy should actually come from joy.
Sustainability: All farms practice regenerative agriculture and the people are paid more than living wages for their products. Heart Song Chocolate uses only organic ingredients, incorporates local plants, and uses compostable 'plastic' wrappers.
SAGE Fresh Eats
Soup, Salad, Sandwich Restaurant
Woman Owned
Sage – Farm Fresh Eats is a sister concept to Zia Taqueria, serving fast-casual, homemade, and healthy soups, salads, sandwiches, and grain bowls.
Sustainability: SAGE was founded as a way to collaborate with local farmers to provide a flexible and significant outlet for local agriculture. We are committed to buying as much local food possible as local food tends to be organic, more nutrient dense, boasts a minimal carbon footprint, and improves our local soils while supporting local families. SAGE composts, recycles, and is committed to the most environmentally friendly food packaging that we can source.
Cream Bean Berry
Organic Ice Cream
Woman Owned
Cream Bean Berry is a Durango's first and only locally woman-owned ice cream shop. Voted three years in a row "Best of Durango" and a "Durango Sustainable Business Leader", Cream Bean Berry hand makes all of their ice cream from organic and local ingredients. You can taste the difference.
Sustainability: 1) We use the highest quality ingredients to make the freshest, most flavorful ice cream possible. ‘Nuff said; 2) We strive for maximum environmental sustainability in every aspect of our business. This means using as many locally produced and organic ingredients as we can, as well as reducing waste through recycling and composting. The majority of our packaging is biodegradable. We also reduce our environmental impact with green cleaning products, water conversation and energy star-rated appliances.
James Ranch Market & Grill
Market & Grill Restaurant
Family Owned
Regenerative. Family. Harmony. James Ranch is ten miles north of Durango, Colorado in the beautiful Animas River Valley. They offer 100% grass fed and finished beef, whey-fed pork, artisan cheese and raw milk from 100% grass-fed, grazing Jersey cows, eggs produced from pastured hens, a spruce tree nursery, an regenerative vegetable and flower garden, and a thriving restaurant grill and market.
Sustainability: James Ranch is family run, utilizing regenerative, sustainable growing practices that center around care for the animals and the land so as to build up the soil to sequester more carbon.
Sarvaa Organics
Food - Super Foods
Sarvaa Organics formulates small batch, always organic artisan superfood blends, Spagyric CBD, and probiotic powders designed to support the planet by supporting your health.
Sustainability: In addition to a commitment to organic agriculture and ingredients, Sarvaa Organics donates a portion of every purchase to fight climate change and deforestation by planting seedlings of native tree species and paying daily wages of local people in areas hit by extreme poverty and deforestation. Over 48,000 trees have been planted so far!
They reuse or recycle so much, that Sarvaa Organics now only generates one large bag of trash per month! Plus, they even spend the extra money to purchase the absolute highest quality virgin organic coconut oil in glass jars instead of plastic tubs, which are then donated to a local non-profit organization who washes and reuses them in clever ways as part of their mission. Food waste is now down to around one quart container per month. Sarvaa has also retrofitted their facility with all LED lighting in 2019. And, they use non-toxic cleaning products in their facility.
Table to Farm Compost
Food Waste Compost
Woman Owned
Table to Farm Compost offers affordable curbside food scrap and glass collection, which is then recycled into local compost and artisan soils for purchase. Start composting for just $25/month.
Spring is just around the corner, so check out their full soil and compost product lines for all your gardening and agricultural needs.
Sustainability: Composting food scraps is critically important to reducing landfill waste, methane emissions, and facilitating carbon sequestration.
Zia Taqueria
Healthy Mexican Restaurant
Zia is a beloved community-minded restaurant serving locally sourced and farmed, healthy meats, vegetables, and other ingredients. They promote what they believe in:
"Treat the earth kindly, stay healthy, be kind to all others, be thankful, and be generous."
Sustainability: From upcycled building materials, kitchen scrap composting, solar panels, responsible food and to-go container sourcing, to giving back to their community and staff, Zia strives to build a sustainable business and community with each business decision.
Animas Artisans
Furniture + Counter Tops + Art - Locally Handcrafted
Animas Artisans is a Durango based design and fabrication company that uses wood, concrete, and steel to handcraft high quality products for your home, office, or yard. While specializing in home finish details, home furnishings, and sculptures, they are thrilled about the problem solving that comes with any product creation. If you have an idea, they want to help you bring it to reality.
Sustainability: Animas Artisans upcycles as many materials as possible while maintaining high quality and functionality. They acquire materials through donation, recycling or scrap yards, trash sorting, and partnerships with other sustainable businesses.
Animas Craft Woodworks
Furniture - Locally Handcrafted
Animas Craft Woodworks creates custom furniture, built-ins, cabinetry, doors, and home accents. They work directly with their clients from start to finish to ensure the custom project is both beautiful and functional.
Sustainability: Animas Craft's creations are "heirloom quality," meaning they are designed to last for generations, thus reducing landfill waste. They also repair your furniture, giving it a longer life and avoiding the landfill. Their lumber is sourced responsibly from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified suppliers. Whenever possible, they repurpose their waste stream, such as donating hardwood sawdust to local mushroom farms!
NoMAD
Clothing + Furniture Consignment
Woman Owned
NoMAD is a resale shop with a funky collection of hand selected, second hand clothing for men and women. You'll also find upcycled furniture and unique home decor. Follow NOMAD on Instagram or Facebook for dates for in-store events and scrap booking workshops sales or ask about custom painting your furniture!
Sustainability: "We feel good knowing that each of our customers is helping us save millions of pounds of clothing and household goods from being wasted in our landfills. Upcycle Your Journey!"
Violet Mae Upholstery
Furniture Re-upholstery
Woman Owned
Violet Mae Upholstery is saving vintage furniture from the land fill one piece at a time. Violet Mae specialize in reimagining and beautifully reupholstering discarded, heirloom and consignment furniture and updating it for today's living.
Sustainability: Did you know 12 million tons of furniture is thrown away each year in the US? Upholstery takes a link out of the fast furniture chain by giving old furniture a new life.
Durango Sustainable Goods
Home and Lifestyle
Woman Owned
Durango Sustainable Goods is a home and lifestyle shop for members of the Sustainable Biz Guide to sell their wares. The shop is located in the Smiley Building | Studio 12, first floor.
Sustainability: Products are locally made or curated from global reputable sustainable brands.
Michi
Pottery
Woman Owned
Michelle Herringer’s handmade one-of-a-kind porcelain ceramics are intended to subtly enhance your life by surrounding you with thought provoking and captivating functional art.
Sustainability: Michelle's love of the natural environment guides how she runs her studio—from recycling all of her clay and reusing clay scraps for smaller creations or recycling it into a new batch of clay for making. Her studio runs on solar power and she's conscientious that materials are collected and disposed of so that nothing ends up in our water ways that doesn't belong there. For shipping, she uses repurposed or recyclable packaging materials, avoiding plastic unless it is being reused.
Belle and the Bear
Art + Jewelry
Woman Owned
Belle and the Bear is transforming spaces with simple, elegant fiber art and creating unique, one-of-a-kind clay jewelry small batch by small batch. Not only are all materials purchased from other small business owners in America, but they are then carefully hand crafted into pieces of art for your home, body, and decoration for events! Sustainability: All cord used is 100% natural -from the cotton to the dye. Cord is sourced from a fellow stay-at-home-mom and small business owner in neighboring Utah. After completing bigger art pieces the scraps are then repurposed into jewelry and other boho accessories. The scraps of those scraps are (soon to be) mixed with other recycled fibers and used for weaving pieces so that no fiber is wasted.
Hello Luna Creative
Jewelry
Woman Owned
Tara Hagman, founder of Hello Luna Creative, is a jeweler specializing in uniquely designed silver and cut stone earrings, necklaces, and rings.
Sustainability: As a creator, Tara makes sure that she doesn't add to the problem of toxic waste on our planet. To this end, Tara uses recycled sterling silver and recycles all of her scraps. Her stones are sustainably sourced and she also cuts her own stones. Another way she keeps her waste low is by avoiding plastics in her packaging, and instead use recycled/ biodegradable materials.
reCYCLEd pARTs by KiLeY
CYCLE ART from recycled parts
Woman of Color Owned
A new Durango, CO based company making new and unique jewelry designs and other art and accessories using recycled bicycle parts.
Sustainability: All upcycled bike parts are donated from local Durango bike shops after they have gone for their last ride. We strive to minimize our carbon footprint and engage in sustainable practices including bike transportation, recycling, rainwater collection, and composting at home base to be as energy efficient as possible.
Live Creative Studio
Marketing + Sustainability Hub
Woman Owned
Live Creative is a sustainable business, marketing, and shopping hub. Our Creative Studio offers authentic marketing, branding, and sustainable business expertise to ethical, sustainable, and purpose brands. And our Sustainable Lifestyle Team brings the curious and the conscious inspiring sustainable lifestyle, zero waste tips, and the Sustainable Marketplace—where you can shop all the top global sustainable brands in one place.
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Botanical Concepts
Garden Center & Nursery
Woman Owned
Botanical Concepts is a full service nursery, with everything you need for your garden and landscaping projects, including seeds, soil, houseplants, perennials, shrubs and trees. And they grow all of their organic vegetable starts from seed. Botanical Concepts brings the Durango community a variety of native plants suitable for local wildlife and our particular environment. Plus, Botanical Concepts is happy to share their knowledge.
Sustainability: In addition to selling native plants, organic vegetables, using natural amendments to promote overall soil health and sequester life-giving carbon in the soil, Botanical Concepts uses a variety of programs to diminish waste. For example, their bucket program enables customers to purchase soil by the truckload (or the bucket full!) to reduce the usage of bags. They also plant in fiber pots (instead of single use plastic!) and offer a buy-back program for customers who bring them back.
Durango Outdoor Exchange
Gear - Used Outdoor
Durango Outdoor Exchange is a locally owned consignment shop that provides quality, used and new outdoor gear and apparel. "We exist for you to sell your stuff, find great gear and get out there and enjoy it! We recognize the incredible beauty of the land in which we live, work and play."
Sustainability: Durango Outdoor Exchange provides a local marketplace for used gear with the intention of keeping it out of landfills and giving it a second life. Local commerce reduces carbon emissions by limiting extra transportation and shipping too. The Durango Outdoor Exchange also offsets their carbon foot-print with roof top solar installed in 2021. They pay their employees a living wage. And, this year, The Exchange is working with 4CORE to install two EV charging stations in their parking lot, plus sourcing new outdoor gear from other sustainable or Colorado based companies.
Sew Alpine
Gear - Recycled + Upcycled + Repair
Woman Owned
Sew Alpine is a passion-driven, home-grown, hard-working brand. You don’t have to bike the fastest or ski the gnarliest, Sew Alpine will gear you up for whatever adventure you can conjure up - from rescue winter tarps and canine pup slippers to bike accessaries and more.
Sustainability: Through custom projects and small-batch production, Sew Alpine keeps waste to a minimum and produces high quality products that withstand many adventures. Most thread and fabrics are recycled and materials are sourced from independent US manufacturers, distributors, and local businesses. We offer a repair service for clothing and gear to keep your items in good working condition and minimize the amount of new stuff in circulation.
Rainbow Springs Flowers
Flower Farm & CSA Subscription
Woman Owned
Rainbow Springs is a small, family owned Farm in Durango, Co. They would love to help you with your wedding, event, deliver a monthly flower subscription, or a special bouquet.
They offer really exciting and fun workshops. Come out and learn or perfect your floral watercolor painting in one of their monthly, personalized classes with Chandler (the owner). Photography and floral design classes are coming soon and will take place beneath their farm’s magical Cottonwood tree.
Sustainability: Rainbow Springs uses sustainable and organic methods. We work hard to honor our earth. The farm has an incredible natural Artesian spring, which stays a constant 52 degrees. This extraordinary water source is a very happy home for our fish and allows us to grow some amazing things in our naturally dry climate. We use organic soil from the Paonia Soil Company and are also wholesale distributors of their fine products. We love their large re-usable bags and incredible dirt!
MAKA EARTH
CBD - Organic
Woman of Color Owned
Full-spectrum CBD for active lifestyles. MAKA offers a range of tested and safe CBD for daily and occasional use. Formulas are based on traditional herbal methods, sourced essential oils and plant-based compounds, and their high CBD content hemp comes from organic farms in Colorado.
Sustainability: MAKA means the "Earth" in Lakota. MAKA is a company that honors the Earth by establishing eco-positive business practices, holding product development and supply chains close-in, and sourcing certified hemp from organic farms to produce the highest quality full-spectrum CBD hemp oil.
Wild New Way
Coaching - Jungian Life Coach
Woman Owned
Cindy Schmidt, Certified Master Jungian Life Coach, Certified Mindfulness Teacher is the Founder of Wild New Way. Do you know someone in your life that is ready for change? Possibly a new career? A fresh start? Has a desire to live his/her passion?
Sustainability: In addition to incorporating sustainable business practices, Wild New Way brings sustainability into the personal space, helping individuals and couples align their values with their lives and livelihood. With the professional guidance of Cindy Schmidt, you have the special opportunity to explore your edges and loves and create your own wild new way.
Osadha Natural Health
Health - Herbalist + Microbiologist
Woman Owned
Marija Helt, Ph.D. is a research scientist-turned-clinical herbalist, practicing in Colorado since 2010. Marija has helped many people achieve their health and wellness goals, while teaching about plant and mushroom medicine in engaging and fun classes that blend tradition and science.
Sustainability: Botanical medicine is sustainable approach to health, as a simple, low tech, and effective modality. In crafting individualized botanical formulas for her clients and in teaching her students, Marija employs organically grown plants and mushrooms, extremely useful yet overlooked weeds, and only the most abundant wild native plants and mushrooms. The idea is to take care of plants and fungi that take care of us by growing what can be grown and by maintaining the habitats where wild medicinals grow.
Pathways Physical Therapy
Health - Physical Therapy
LGBTQ Owned Business
Pathways Physical Therapy is for ultra athletes, weekend warriors, and women and men with musculoskeletal dysfunction. They offer traditional therapy techniques such as manual therapy, dry needling, and postural and body mechanics instruction.
Sustainability: What makes them unique is their commitment to sustainable business practices from the products they use and sell to the care they take in recycling and being energy conscientious. Further, they focus on one-on-one sessions with specialized attention as well as a holistic approach incorporating mindfulness and meditation, yoga and more for optimal healing of the body, mind and soul.
Phoenix Physical Therapy
Health - Physical Therapy
Woman Owned
Owner and founder, SueB Earl, has been practicing physical therapy in Durango, CO, for more than 28 years. With more than two decades’ worth of experience, she has been fondly referred to as the “foot whisperer” across the Four Corners area.
Sustainability: Phoenix Physical Therapy is conscientious about using the most environmentally friendly cleaning products and office supplies, reducing waste and energy use, and utilizing local resources, including refilling at WeFill. Phoenix PT also participates in Green Business Roundtable and donates to 4Ocean to support global ocean cleanup and spreads awareness about the threats of single-use plastic waste.
Studio Soma
Health - Pilates + Bodywork + Gyrotonic
Woman Owned
Studio Soma believes that sustainability begins with individual health and wholeness. They offer individualized training in Pilates and Gyrotonic, as well as therapeutic support with massage, craniosacral therapy, and somatic therapy. We support bodies to find efficient movement and healthy patterns that encourage strength and suppleness, qualities needed to be effective community members. In addition to training and rehab, we act as a community hub that supports other colleagues' events/workshops.
Sustainability: They hold yearly fundraisers for local non-profits like The Women's Resource Center and Our Indigenous Lifeways, and encourage our clients to gather and exchange ideas about how to be change-makers. They minimize plastic use, and stock their studio with local products from stores like WeFill and Dancing Willow Herbs.
Yoga Durango
Yoga + Eco-conscious Boutique
Woman Owned
Yoga Durango is Durango’s community yoga center. We believe in connecting people in healthy ways. In successful operation since 2006 (we are celebrating 15 years this year!), we strive to create a welcoming place for people to explore, grow and transform. Our studio supports all levels of practitioner, providing high-quality experiences with exceptional instructors. As a women-owned small business, we are dedicated to the well-being of our community and contribute to the richness and vitality that makes Durango such a wonderful place to live.
Sustainability: We are a successful local small business in operation for 15 years and have maintained a quality working staff with minimal turn-over. We consciously choose where all our dollars go from offering hand picked, eco-conscious retail to supporting our local co-op with our bulk orders. We refill our cleaning supplies to minimize our waste and we look to the smallest of purchases like having BPA credit card paper! We are a place of connection and networking, which sustains a local economy. Yogadurango believes in healthy reciprocity and have donated thousands of dollars to local nonprofits, individuals and organizations.Yogadurango is Durango’s community yoga center. We believe in connecting people in healthy ways. In successful operation since 2006 (we are celebrating 15 years this year!), we strive to create a welcoming place for people to explore, grow and transform. Our studio supports all levels of practitioner, providing high-quality experiences with exceptional instructors. As a women-owned small business, we are dedicated to the well-being of our community and contribute to the richness and vitality that makes Durango such a wonderful place to live.
Sustainability: We are a successful local small business in operation for 15 years and have maintained a quality working staff with minimal turn-over. We consciously choose where all our dollars go from offering hand picked, eco-conscious retail to supporting our local co-op with our bulk orders. We refill our cleaning supplies to minimize our waste and we look to the smallest of purchases like having BPA credit card paper! We are a place of connection and networking, which sustains a local economy. Yogadurango believes in healthy reciprocity and have donated thousands of dollars to local nonprofits, individuals and organizations.
WeFill
Refill + Zero Waste Store
Woman Owned
Single-use plastics, a seemingly insurmountable worldwide dilemma, is overwhelming but can be approached one container at a time.
WeFill is taking an active role in creating a solution to reduce single-use plastic pollution by offering a refilling station for earth-friendly household and personal-care products.
They have a large selection of organic, palm oil-free castile soaps, hair care products, organic facial products, bath salts, organic hand sanitizers, and plant-based cleaning supplies. All refillables are sold by the ounce so you can test small amounts before committing to larger quantities.
They also offer plastic free alternatives, such as produce bags, compostable dental floss, toothpaste tablets, bamboo utensils, reusable ear swabs, and so much more.
WeFill is also proud to offer products from 5 other Colorado businesses (4 of which are women-owned), and our top sellers are package-free, locally-made shampoo, conditioner, shaving, lotion, and soap bars by Passion Flower Beauty.