Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Kumudini Energy works with a network of women energy entrepreneurs to provide renewable energy devices and services to tribal and rural communities in Odisha. They specialize in improved cook stoves, solar water pumps, livelihood equipment, home lighting, photovoltaic microgrids, and solar street lights. Their clean cook stoves include sensor-enabled climate financing to reward households for reducing carbon emissions. Kumudini Energy focuses on making renewable energy more accessible by integrating financial services and providing customized solutions. They work with SELCO Foundation and are part of CLEAN Network.
Kunzwana Women's Association was formed in 1995 to economically empower rural women and former farm workers displaced during the land distribution process in Zimbabwe. Today, they work with a network of area leaders to support 10,000 members across six provinces and provide training in business management and financial literacy. Their vocational training center in Macheke serves as a development hub for rural women entrepreneurs. It includes five fully equipped workshops for skills training, a seven-hectare organic demonstration garden, and an early development center. Kunzwana works with women to develop handmade products from sustainable locally sourced materials and facilitates links to market fairs and fair trade events across the region. The women offer local textile clothing, bags, housewares, and sunbrellas, upcycled jewelry and accessories, ilala palm baskets, herbal soaps, natural sweet potato flour, peanut butter, and more. Kunzwana is a member of the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe.
Kurahan Treats uses local ingredients to produce natural whole food snacks for the local market. Their kurakkan cookies are made from a nutritious local millet that is sourced from farmers in Tissamaharama. Kurahan Treats is committed to using environmentally responsible packaging.
Kuroiwa Permaculture Farm is a collective farm focused on regenerative agriculture and permaculture design. They are located near the Kakizaki river in Joetsu, Niigata, a rural mountainous area struggling with issues of depopulation and empty buildings. Their goal is to expand the community surrounding the farm and support new ways of living in harmony with the environment. Kuroiwa Permaculture Farm offers fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs, and meat. They aim to develop lodging for volunteers, a collaborative restaurant with products from the farm, and a holistic integrated system that includes ducks, chickens, goats, pigs, sheep, Wagyu cattle, and horses. Current residents speak Japanese, Spanish, and English, and they are seeking to expand the community and spread regenerative agriculture in Japan.
Kurunchi Natural Farming Producer Group is a cluster of small-scale organic farmers in eastern Sri Lanka committed to growing affordable food that is free from synthetic agrichemicals. They have a strong internal monitoring system, save seeds, and produce compost, liquid fertilizers, and biopesticides from locally available materials. Crops include dry zone vegetables, leafy greens, and legumes. Members also grow ginger, turmeric, passion fruit, pineapple, banana, papaya, mango, lemon, guava, coconut, and cashew. Kurunchi Natural Farming Producer Group is verified under a local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).
Kusala's Corner specializes in all natural and healthy Sri Lanka food served in banana leaves, palm leaves, clay pots, and other environmentally responsible packaging. They freshly grind spices and flour and prepare all items from scratch with minimal sugar and oil. Popular options include rice and curry, dosa, string hoppers, jackfruit kottu, manioc pittu and roti, kurakkan roti, kurakkan cake, and traditional sweets. Kusala's Corner separates their waste. Biodegradable packaging and food waste is composted and polythene and paper are recycled.
Kusanya Cafe was started as a creative community gathering space and a place of empowerment and encouragement in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. They serve coffee, all-day breakfast, and lunch, offer catering services, roast coffee onsite, provide job training and apprenticeships, and host community-driven arts, culture, and educational events. Kusanya Cafe is committed to maintaining inclusive prices for the Englewood community. They are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization governed by Englewood residents and stakeholders. Kusanya Cafe reinvests all surplus towards their purpose.
L2R actively engages and fosters artistic talent in Melbourne’s West while empowering and transforming the lives of children and young people through the power of dance. They provide free dance programs, arts leadership opportunities, and employment pathways for children and young people traditionally underrepresented or absent from mainstream arts and culture. They believe dance has the power to break down social barriers, create meaningful connections, and strengthen the community through creativity, belonging, and wellbeing. L2R showcases some of Melbourne's most respected and dynamic emerging and professional artists. They can be booked for hip hop dance performances, floor shows, site activations, takeovers, school incursions, and community workshops. They are also available for choreography, movement direction, and casting. L2R Dance is a registered charity and reinvests all surplus towards creating social change through dance.
Laa Dhalu develops products using the best available local ingredients with a focus on ecological responsibility. Their kombucha is a raw, probiotic beverage made with organic Sri Lankan black tea. They bottle in glass and print single-color labels on paper instead of stickers. Laa Dhalu is working towards labels made with vegetable ink and unbleached recycled paper.
Laadi Designs sells ethically sourced handmade housewares, clothing, and accessories from around the world to support artisans, connect cultures, and increase appreciation for global art traditions. They build partnerships with artisans, cooperatives, and fair trade organizations worldwide and provide an alternative to fast fashion, mass-produced products, and poor working conditions. Laadi Designs is committed to equitable living wages, transparency, environmental responsibility, and a culture of mutual respect. They are a member of Fair Trade Federation.
Labellink supports sustainable production, responsible consumption, and improved material recovery by enabling the transition from barcodes and paper labels to QR codes, e-labels, and digital product passports. They offer a comprehensive platform for managing digital labels, strategic consulting, user experience and design services, custom development, professional content creation, training, verification, and certification for regulatory compliance. Labellink digital product passports provide transparent, accessible information on a product's lifecycle, including materials, production, environmental impact, and proper disposal. This helps consumers and businesses make informed, environmentally responsible choices and facilitates recycling and reuse. Labellink gives back through educational events, offers pro bono and discounted services for social enterprises, nonprofits, educational institutions, and local governments, and contributes to mission-aligned open source projects. They are a member of Social Enterprise UK.
La Ceyloné specializes in tropical batik, linen, and print shirts made with wood buttons and compostable natural fibers or upcycled textile offcuts from local apparel factories. All clothing is made in their own production facilities to ensure socially and environmentally responsible practices. La Ceyloné's batik range supports local artisans and is made with azo-free fiber reactive dyes.
Lactoboost offers lactation cookies as a healthy snack to support milk production in breastfeeding mothers. The cookies contain oats, flax seeds, and nutritional yeast, three natural galactagogues that help increase prolactin hormone levels. Lactoboost uses their platform to share tips and facts related to newborns and early parenthood in Sri Lanka. They also manage a group that provides support for new mothers. Lactoboost provides free cookies to women in need.
Lady Green aims to empower Sri Lankan women through the production of environmentally responsible handcrafted housewares and accessories. They specialize in baskets, bins, tableware, bags, and jewelry made from cane, reed, banana fiber, paper rope, corn husk, coconut, wood, and other natural materials. Lady Green provides training and fair employment opportunities to support skill development, financial independence, and community cohesion.
Lafaani creates men's and women's apparel that celebrates India's craft heritage and incorporates sustainability, slow fashion, and circular design principles. They use handspun and handwoven textiles that are made from indigenous rainfed cotton, dyed with indigo, turmeric, myrobalan, catechu, madder, and other natural materials, and finished with locally sourced coconut shell, wood, and mother-of-pearl buttons. Fabric scraps are upcycled into unique garments, bags, and accessories. Lafaani collaborates with artisan communities to preserve traditional skills and support socio-economic development. They partner with Sustie to track environmental impact and with Remake to advocate for fair pay and climate justice in the fashion industry. Lafaani allocates a percentage of profits to climate action initiatives.
La Fabrica designs, crafts, and distributes innovative compostable packaging and product solutions with the aim of reducing dependency on plastic and creating new employment opportunities. They also help brands, companies, and industries shift to biodegradable alternatives by offering material development, product design, research, testing, and other consultancy services. La Fabrica's compostable BioPouches are made from food grade recycled paper and can be used for dry foods and liquids. They are waterproof, heat sealable, freezer compatible, and easy to pack and store. Their heavy duty paper bags have a patented fold technique with a reinforced spine. They can carry up to 10 kilograms of groceries, including wet and cold items, and are designed for repeated use. Both the pouches and the bags are handmade by local self-help groups and women-led organizations.
La Kandyan Foods produces natural, value-added food products in order to create rural livelihood opportunities, reduce post-harvest losses and waste, and make it easier for people to consume traditional foods that have medicinal value. They source bitter gourd, tamarind, goraka, and other raw materials from small-scale local producers and use solar-powered facilities for cleaning, processing, and packaging. La Kandyan Foods commits a portion of their profits to SOS Children's Village.
Lak Creations gives Sri Lankan fabric waste a second life and offers alternatives to single-use plastic. They source textile offcuts from local garment factories and traders in Katunayaka, Pamunuwa, and Pettah and use them to create reusable fabric bags, upcycled jewelry, and patchwork housewares. Lak Creations is committed to affordability and raising awareness about environmental responsibility.
Lak Deepa produces handmade cotton wicks that are used in clay and brass coconut oil lamps in Sri Lanka. These traditional oil lamps are an important part of many local ceremonies. Lak Deepa was started by a woman in the Godagama area of Meegoda to earn additional income for her household and has expanded to provide flexible livelihood opportunities for single mothers and other low-income women in the area. Most of the women in the community work as domestic help in Colombo for low salaries. Lak Deepa sells to local shops and ensures their products are affordable for low-income groups.
Lak Lady has been raising goats on a 120-acre farm in Panvillatenna village since 1993. After years of selling raw milk to a collector, they decided to develop their own processing facility so they could guarantee that the final product was high quality and additive free. Lak Lady is the first single-source goat milk supplier in Sri Lanka. The local hill country climate is ideal for goats, and the farm team ensures that the animals have adequate space, outdoor access, and good living conditions. Lak Lady produces their own compost, treats all waste water onsite, and packages their products in reusable glass bottles. They allocate 10 percent of profits to support the education of workers' children.