Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Eternal Landscapes offers travel experiences in Mongolia that contribute to positive social change. They create opportunities outside of the traditional tourism circuit, develop long-term partnerships with local families and communities, and focus on unique small-group tours and tailored travel experiences. Eternal Landscapes provides a free training and development program for Mongolian women who want to work in tourism, preferentially employs women as trip assistants and rural men as drivers, and invests in developing their team over time. Travel experiences are designed to benefit and support local projects and community partners. Eternal Landscapes actively measures and works to reduce their carbon footprint, plastic use, and food waste. They supply filtered water bottles and reusable fabric bags, send guests a waste reduction packing list, and organize two-minute litter picks and community cleanup events. Eternal Landscapes is part of Tourism Declares, Travelers Against Plastic, the Mongolian Tourism Association, and Responsible Travel.
Ethical Fashion Collective is an initiative by Sri Lankan fashion brands that are committed to socially and environmentally responsible practices. They work together to raise awareness on the impacts of "fast fashion" and support the Fashion Revolution movement in Sri Lanka. They have also partnered to improve sustainable sourcing, develop impact monitoring systems, create campaign materials, and organize events. In order to join the Ethical Fashion Collective, brands must sign the global Fashion Revolution Manifesto and be Good Market approved.
Ethical.Global distributes ethical and sustainable products to natural grocery stores throughout the United States. They help create market opportunities for global social enterprises that provide fair trade employment opportunities for marginalized communities. Products include organic and natural food, home and body supplies, and accessories.
The Ethical Small Traders Association (ESTA) aims to create thriving local economies that help everyone reach their full potential as human beings while living within the carrying capacity of the planet. They started as a socially and environmentally responsible local business network working for a sustainable economy in the Lancaster area. Over time, they developed a framework for local social entrepreneurs to work together for the common good and an Ethical Trader accreditation based on a quadruple bottom line: enhancing economic wellbeing, environmental care, social wellbeing, and personal development. ESTA now facilitates global conversation spaces to share knowledge and expertise with local initiatives in other regions.
ethiCollective promotes art, fair trade, and sustainability through their online store and their gallery in Lisbon. Their collective brings together artists and artisans from around the world and includes people from indigenous and traditional communities as well as photographers and visual artists that raise awareness about environmental and social issues. ethiCollective aims to enrich the lives of the people who create and produce their products and the people who choose them. They intentionally keep low margins to ensure joyful, conscious, cultural experiences are accessible for all.
Ethik is a wholesale marketplace that connects conscious companies with artisan cooperatives worldwide and makes it easier for them to bring ethical, handmade products into their supply chain. The team maintains a curated collection of housewares and accessories, supports customization and collaborative design, handles intercultural communication, production timelines, and international shipping logistics, and provides artisans stories, photos, and impact data that companies can share with their employees and customers. Ethik worked with an independent research team to conduct a randomized control trial impact study and found that artisans with consistent work invest in long-term wealth building assets that help break the generational cycle of poverty. Based on this, they developed an impact strategy focused on fair compensation and consistent repeat orders for their global artisan partners. They provide advance payments, facilitate capacity building grants, and help artisans source sustainable raw materials and packaging. Ethik is a member of Social Enterprise Alliance.
Ethiqana offers a curated range of ethical, sustainable products from small-scale artisans that use environmentally responsible materials. They aim to empower artisans through fair and ethical sourcing and make sustainable products more affordable and accessible to consumers. Ethiqana wooden toys are handcrafted by Channapatna artisans from sustainably grown wood, colored with nontoxic plant-based dyes like turmeric, indigo, and acacia, and finished with natural lac resin. Their handmade paper greeting cards are created from local office waste by young adults in Rwanda who have been orphaned by disease or conflict. Ethiqana also offers a unique selection of jewelry and housewares that is handmade from Jaipur blue pottery or Khun handwoven fabric, eco-educational board games from Bioviva, and terracotta space heaters from Egloo. Through a partnership with Buy1Give1, Ethiqana donates a portion of every sale to a project related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They are a member of Social Enterprise UK.
Euclid Network catalyzes transformation towards an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable economy by connecting and empowering stakeholders of the social entrepreneurship movement in Europe. They bring together European intermediaries and social enterprise support organizations for knowledge exchange, capacity building, networking, and international advocacy. Euclid Network is a strategic partner of the European Commission and an observer to the United Nations Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE). They provide advice and expert services to funders, governments, and international organizations. Euclid Network is registered as an association and is governed by an annual general meeting of the member organizations.
EuroLanka Travel harnesses the power of tourism to uplift rural communities across Sri Lanka, preserve its natural and cultural heritage, and promote environmental awareness and animal welfare. They specialize in immersive guided tours, custom itineraries, services for families with children, cooking classes, and other cultural experiences. Travelers have the opportunity to meet locals, gain insight into their culture, traditions, and daily lives, experience authentic local cuisine, and stay in highly-rated homestays and guesthouses run by local families. EuroLanka Travel uses a portion of their profits to donate school supplies, support rural education and community development, and invest in rural enterprises and tourism initiatives.
Evenbreak is an accessible job board and careers site that's run by disabled people for disabled people. They help disabled job seekers find employers who will value their skills, and they work with inclusive employers who understand the value of a diverse workforce and help them attract more disabled candidates. They also provide training and consultancy services to increase accessibility and disability inclusion in the workplace. Evenbreak minimizes their environmental impact by working remotely with no central office or transport requirements. They calculate the carbon footprint of their technology use and offset it through projects with Greentripper, and they purchase gifts and promotional items locally from social enterprises and ethical brands. Evenbreak is a member of Social Enterprise UK and Employers for Carers. They have Living Wage Employer accreditation, and they use their surplus to support Whizz Kidz and provide free-of-charge career advice for disabled people looking for new or better work.
Evergreen Collective makes it easier to find ethically and sustainably sourced home and body essentials. They offer a curated range of bath and body, cleaning, kitchen, home, garden, and pet products with a focus on transparency, fair labor, and low waste. Their retail shop in Saint Paul, Minnesota includes bulk refill stations for skin care and cleaning products and TerraCycle dropoff boxes for hard-to-recycle waste. Evergreen Collective supports local brands whenever possible and serves as a collection point for local community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms. They are a Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation and are certified by the Green Business Bureau.
Evergreen Soap Company creates natural, vegan soaps that are gentle on the skin and the planet. Their face and body bars are handcrafted in the United Kingdom in small batches from nourishing plant-based oils, organic shea butter, pure essential oils, naturally active botanicals, clays, and minerals. All products are free from palm oil, sulfates, artificial preservatives, and other synthetic ingredients. Evergreen Soap Company offers their bars unwrapped, in compostable paper, or in unbleached cotton gift bags.
Everybody by Dutton Farm is a social enterprise that empowers adults with special needs to live a life of purpose, inclusion, and dignity. They employ adults with developmental disabilities to manufacture, package, and label their range of natural balms, soaps, scrubs, spritzes, and soy wax candles. All profits go back into Dutton Farm, a nonprofit that supports adult education, community involvement, and workforce development for adults with disabilities. Everybody by Dutton Farm believes in the possibility of a fully inclusive workplace and aims to be a model for other enterprises.
Everythinglanka produces pure cinnamon leaf, clove, pine, and citronella essential oils in environmentally responsible wooden vials. They source directly from a wide range of rural producers including small scale farmers, home-based oil producers, cinnamon scrap wood suppliers, and woodcarvers. Everythinglanka operates as a socially responsible family business and contributes dry rations and funds to the Community Concern feeding program and Victory Children's Home on a monthly basis.
Evlogia Eco aims to eliminate single-use plastics, convert agricultural waste into wealth, and provide employment for rural women. They produce affordable compostable alternatives to single-use drinking straws, stirrers, and coffee cup lids. Evlogia straws are made from fallen coconut palm leaves that might otherwise be burnt as waste. They are certified for contact with food and remain intact in liquid for hours due to the natural wax in the leaves. Evologia provides livelihood and business opportunities for women's self-help groups, small farmers, and other micro entrepreneurs.
Evolve enables children to achieve their potential by improving their physical, emotional, and cognitive health and wellbeing. They recruit changemakers interested in purpose-led employment, train them as Health Mentors, and embed them in schools to work with children individually and in small groups. Evolve has developed an online assessment tool called the Wellbeing Compass to help Health Mentors and schools track wellbeing, mental health, classroom climate, mentoring progress, and school performance. They work closely with schools that serve children with disabilities and special educational needs, and they identify funding partners to make programs affordable for schools in disadvantaged areas. Evolve is part of Social Enterprise UK, PwC Social Entrepreneur Club, UnLtd Pioneers, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mentoring.
ExChange the World is based on the idea that if we want to live in a better world, we all need to become part of the change. Everybody is a potential changemaker, first and foremost in their own lives and then in their surrounding community. This Polish-Italian couple travels the world looking for people who choose to act and make a change for better. They inspire others by collecting and sharing changemaker stories online and through presentations, workshops, and training programs. So far, the ExChange the World expedition has covered more than 36 countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The journey is based on exchange: storytelling and other skills in exchange for accommodation, food, and "pay as you like" compensation.
Exhale Coffee offers specialty-grade organic coffee that is optimized for health, flavor, and sustainability. Through careful sourcing, roasting, and lab testing, they have developed coffees that are naturally rich in antioxidants and vitamins and free from the mycotoxins, molds, and pesticides found in standard coffees. Exhale Coffee is Fairtrade and Soil Association Organic certified, uses home compostable pouches with industrially compostable valves, and ships in mailers made from recycled and recyclable Forest Stewardship Council certified paper. To minimize the carbon footprint of their supply chain, all of their coffee is grown on the same farm and shipped once a year in a shipping container to the United Kingdom. Exhale Coffee donates to World Coffee Research, Counting Coral, and Trash Free Trails. They are a B Corporation and a member of 1% for the Planet.
Exilior Coffee creates ethical supply chains that connect communities and improve the lives of small-scale Kenyan farmers. Their coffee and macadamia nuts are naturally grown in high-altitude agroforestry systems and roasted in small batches in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In Kenya, Exilior partners with KICE Foundation to provide scholarships to students in Kikuyu Constituency. In Oregon, they give coffee to Yamhill Community Action Partnership (YCAP) and donate 15 percent of sales of specific coffee blends to Numberz, an independent Black-owned radio station, and Music Workshop, a nonprofit that supports music education. Exilior Coffee is a certified B Corporation.
Exit to Community (E2C) is a group of organizers, researchers, founders, mentors, and allies working towards alternative exit strategies for startups committed to community ownership and economic justice. Typically, when a startup company takes early investment, the expectation is that investors will see a return through an "exit" event: a new investment round, a merger, an acquisition, or an initial public offering (IPO). In E2C, the company transitions from investor ownership to ownership by the people who rely on it most. Those people might be users, workers, customers, partner organizations, or a combination of stakeholder groups. Organizers from MEDLab and Zebras Unite have been developing E2C resources and strategies through webinars, participatory events, publications, a 10-week peer learning cohort, and an online community of practice. Anyone working on community ownership and alternative exit strategies is welcome to join.