Durango Sustainable Business Guide

The Durango Sustainable Business Guide below features 25+ 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.

In partnership with 4CORE, our community now has access to the Green Business Certification Program designed to help your business reduce waste, water consumption and increase energy efficiency and social equity.

Platinum Certified

Columbine Landscapes
Desert Sun Coffee Roasters

Gold Certified

Dorothy Parker Design
The Sweaty Buddha
Phoenix Physical Therapy

Silver Certified

Durango Outdoor Exchange

Apparel

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!"

NoMAD

Art

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.

DWolf Designs

Moonbeam Art and Design

Fine Art
Woman Owned

Moonbeam Art and Design is a women-owned and sustainably run art business based in Durango, Colorado. Olivia (artist and founder) combines her love of the outdoors with her passion for environmentalism and painting. She draws you into her life and travels with vignettes of experiences in the wilderness.

Sustainability: Olivia strives to create art with intention. She uses as many recycled and upcycled elements as possible and sources her remaining materials from local, environmentally conscious, small businesses. Many of her pieces are created through commission projects and small-batch production to keep her business low-waste.

Moonbeam Art and Design

Bed & Breakfast

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.

The Gable House

Beauty + Cleaning

Eco Everyday

Hair + Skin Products
Woman of Color Owned

Eco Everyday is Durango Sustainable Goods' value brand. Eco Everyday specializes in high quality skin, hair and bath products. The savings comes from lite packaging, simple, yet effective natural ingredients, and the upcycling of perfectly good "waste ingredients" from other organic and natural beauty brands.

Sustainability: Locally made, natural and organic ingredients.

Durango Sustainable Goods

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.

WeFill

Durango Sustainable Goods

Home, Kitchen, Makeup, Plants
Woman Owned

Durango Sustainable Goods is a home, kitchen, and lifestyle shop for members of the Sustainable Biz Guide to sell their wares. The shop is located at 1259 Main Ave in Durango.

Sustainability: Products are locally made or curated from global reputable sustainable brands.

Durango Sustainable Goods

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.

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Bike Rental

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

Roll eBike + SUP Rentals

Building + Interior Design

Dorothy Parker Design

Interior Design
Woman Owned
Green Business Certified - GOLD

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.

Dorothy Parker Design

Food + Restaurant

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!

Botanical Companions

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.

Sarvaa Organics

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.

Grassburger

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.

Zia Taqueria

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.

James Ranch

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.

Sage

Furniture + Upholestry

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!

Animas Craft Woodworking

NoMAD

Clothing + Furniture Consignment
Woman Owned

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!"

NoMAD

Home Goods + Decor

Durango Sustainable Goods

Home, Kitchen, Plants
Woman Owned

Durango Sustainable Goods is a home, kitchen, and lifestyle shop for members of the Sustainable Biz Guide to sell their wares. The shop is located at 1259 Main Ave in Durango.

Sustainability: Products are locally made or curated from global reputable sustainable brands.

Durango Sustainable Goods

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.

Michi

Jewelry

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.

Belle and the Bear

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.

Hello Luna Creative

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.

reCYCLEd pARTs by KiLeY

Marketing

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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Live Creative Studio

Outdoor - Garden + Gear

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.

Botanical Concepts

Durango Outdoor Exchange

Gear - Used Outdoor
Green Business Certified - SILVER

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.

Durango Outdoor Exchange

Wellness

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.

MAKA EARTH

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.

Wild New

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.

Osadha Natural Health

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.

Yoga Durango

Refill and Zero Waste

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 also offer plastic free alternatives, such as produce bags, compostable dental floss, toothpaste tablets, bamboo utensils, reusable ear swabs, and so much more.

WeFill

In partnership with 4CORE, our community now has access to the Green Business Certification Program designed to help your business reduce waste, water consumption and increase energy efficiency and social equity.

NoMAD

DWolf Designs

Moonbeam Art and Design

The Gable House

Eco Everyday

WeFill

Durango Sustainable Goods

Passion Flower Beauty

Roll ebike + SUP

Dorothy Parker Design

Botanical Companions

Sarvaa Organics

Grassburger

Zia Taqueria

James Ranch Market & Grill

SAGE Fresh Eats

Animas Craft Woodworks

NoMAD

Durango Sustainable Goods

Michi

Belle and the Bear

Hello Luna Creative

reCYCLEd pARTs by KiLeY

Live Creative Studio

Botanical Concepts

Durango Outdoor Exchange

MAKA EARTH

Wild New Way

Osadha Natural Health

Yoga Durango

WeFill

Sustainable Durango

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