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Alchemy Goods

Their mission is simple: “Turning useless into useful.”

Alchemy is the medieval science of turning lead into gold. More generally, it means magically turning something of lesser value into something of greater value. For them, the value isn’t economical so much as ecological. They look for materials that are normally discarded that might have value with a little bit of imagination and some hard work.

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Amella

Amella is the world’s first artisan cocoa butter caramel. All-natural, with 0% trans fat and made with pure cocoa butter, Amella Caramels are preservative-free and kosher. With three exclusive flavors: carrot cake, black forest and passion fruit, Amella Caramels are impressing general audiences and gourmet connoisseurs alike. With their flourishing business, the Kiamilevs prove that the sweetest part of any confection recipe is the right ingredients…and the right couple behind it.

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Autonomie Project

Autonomie Project, Inc. is an innovative Fair Trade fashion company offering stylish eco-friendly & vegan footwear, clothing and accessories. In late 2007, the founders of Autonomie Project became inspired by the lack in the social marketplace of a truly wearable ethical clothing brand that they could actually afford. With the strong desire to effect positive change in our world and the attitude of building a company bottom-up grassroots-style, these few good friends set off to start a different kind of company.

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Bamboobino

Nominated for the 2007 Visions of Excellence Award and the 2008 SavvyMom Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Bamboobino is made by Daydreams Designs, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bamboobino offers the most practical and least damaging (to humans and to the environment) fabric for our children. The viscose from bamboo fiber in all our products are Oeko-Tex 100 certified, and is made from OCIA & USDA-certified organically grown bamboo. The organic cotton in our products are also OCIA-certified. All our products are made in Vancouver, or sourced through local companies, and we use local suppliers whenever possible. Our company embraces triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) practices and knows there is always room for improvement.

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Botanical Bakery

Our ingredients are all natural. All but the vitamin E are organic. Most of our ingredients are local.

In choosing our ingredient partners, we seek companies with an artisan approach, each striving to create the purest products possible. We believe that you and your customers appreciate unique flavors and have an adventurous and educated palate.

Our flour is unbleached and made from a premium blend of organic hard red wheat. Our sugar is organic pure cane sugar. We proudly use Straus Family Creamery’s European Style organic unsalted sweet cream butter. Straus is a family run farm located in the town of Marshall, CA.  Their butter has over 85% butterfat and is still made in a 1950′s small batch butter churn. Chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry uses it.

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Botanical PaperWorks

At Botanical PaperWorks we make cards for every occasion. In addition, we have a complete line of baby and wedding announcements, favours, thank-you cards, and invitations. We also produce plantable business cards and promotional items for businesses looking to demonstrate their environmental commitments.

In building Botanical PaperWorks, we have tried to take a sustainable approach to every part of our business. Almost all of our greeting cards are produced with 100 per cent post-consumer waste content that we collect from local offices and schools and pure North American wildflower seeds. Our skilled papermakers make the products by hand and earn a living wage. When people choose Botanical PaperWorks cards to commemorate a special occasion, they spread the gift of a garden to friends and family – greening our environment, providing habitats for butterflies and planting seeds of beauty.

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Bravo Farms

Bravo Farms began in 1979 as a small dairy farm in Visalia, California. Owned by Bill Boersma, he ran the dairy several years before deciding to evolve into a farmstead cheesemaker. This was not an easy task, being the first farmstead cheesemaker in the San Joaquin Valley was a challenging endeavor. Yet over time, he developed a wonderful recipe for a farmhouse cheddar, which is known as one of the best in the world. Recently Bill partnered with a young artisan cheesemaker, Jonathan Van Ryn, who studied cheesemaking at California Polytechnic University. Jonathan was building a small cheese factory to make his own varieties of cheese, but after meeting with the Boersma’s, they came up with a plan to form a partnership in Bravo Farms. They could now make enough cheese to meet the demand. Bravo Farms now makes several varieties of cheese and continues to produce some of the best cheese worldwide.

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db clay

Based in NE Portland, db clay creates unique wallets called pocket art.  What began in 1998, with little intention and lots of playfulness, has now become a full scale designer wallet and accessories label with
highly functional and beautiful products being distributed worldwide.  At the core of it all, each db clay piece they produce tells a story, intends to spark human interaction and encourage meaningful conversation.

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Embrace Sweets

Embrace Sweets began in 2004 with only a thought, a passion for baking and several generations of proven recipes.  My daughter and I have worked hard to bring the dreams of my mother and grandmother to light and those dreams are flourishing.

Fed up with my current job and unfilled I searched for my true passion and purpose in life, little did I know that it was with me all the while.   After making an apple cobbler for  Brandi’s 21st birthday I suddenly found myself with orders from friends and neighbors to make them sweets.  I soon after, enrolled in the California School of Culinary Arts – Le Cordon Bleu program; and acquired more experience working with world renowned Chef Wolfgang Puck’s catering division. I had truly found my calling.

When Brandi and I opened Embrace Sweet, we found ourselves in the middle of the Adkins craze, we couldn’t give away a cookie let alone a brownie. However, we stayed the course determined to make this work. With that determination, we won numerous awards for our brownies.

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Eucalan

Mary Ellen Edgar’s story is an inspiring one. Her venture into the world of alternative laundry products all started with a visit to a friend in Australia who gave her a Ministry of Agriculture home remedy for a no-rinse laundry product for wool.  Living in the country and accustomed to economizing with well water and a septic tank, Ms Edgar tested the formula herself and was amazed at the results; her best red and white Argyle wool sweater washed up beautifully and she saved time, water and energy because of the no-rinse benefit of the formula. Encouraged and enthusiastic, Ms. Edgar proceeded to go to the next level and produce the new product on commercial basis.

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Evolve

ShowerStart™   wanted a way to save time, water and energy without having to make sacrifices or behavior changes. You see, we figured that many people were probably a lot like us in their morning routine – really busy running around to get out of the door on time. So to save a little time we typically turn on the shower and sneak away to do something else while waiting for the water to warm-up.

ShowerStart™ technology changes the equation because it watches the shower’s temperature and “triggers a trickle” as soon as the shower is warm enough to jump in.  This prevents your hot water from inadvertently running down the drain before you can hop in the shower. Not only have you eliminated the water and energy waste, but the sound of the trickle tells you that your shower’s ready.  The hot water for your shower is now warm and waiting instead of warm and wasted.

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Flip and Tumble

24-7 shopping bags
Designed for those of us who only seem to remember our reusable bags the moment we need them. A stretchy pouch makes it a cinch to go from a full size bag to small ball in seconds flat. Stash one in your messenger bag or purse, ready to go, 24-7.

compact
about the size of a peach
roomy
holds 2x a plastic grocery bag
strong
ripstop nylon, so load it up with a bowling ball or two
good clean fun
machine washable

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Fridays at the Farm

Friday at the Farm began when two friends, Jessica and Melanie, began making soap in 2002.  Initially they decided to get together every Friday out at one of their farms and teach themselves soap making the old fashioned way.  They spent many hours reading recipes, testing different scents and oils together and just spending some time together as friends.  The next year they moved their operation out of their kitchens and into a renovated room in their big red barn.  They then headed for their local Saturday market.  The market meant more to them than just a place to sell their products.  They have made friendships and learned a lot about a way of life that is more in line with their beliefs of buying locally, slowing down, and being a part of our great community.

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Golden Path Alchemy

The study of Nature, Holistic Healing, Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine inspired the creation of Golden Path Alchemy. Golden Path is representative of the Tao, or universal way. Alchemy represents transformation, or the process of “finding the precious gold within yourself by transforming the lead that weights you down” (Jeffery Yuen). The five stages of alchemical transformation can be observed as we begin our journey of spiritual development. These phases of cultivation are reflected in Golden Path Alchemy’s five skin care lines.

The first stage, Awaken, is rising and entering the sacred place to begin the journey. The second stage, Purify, is cleansing, detoxification and releasing elements that no longer provide benefit. The third stage, Refine, is cultivation, meditation, growth and enhancement. The fourth stage, Renew, is rebirth, where new life is expressed and manifested.  The fifth stage, Illumination, is enlightenment and spiritual ascension allowing for greater union with the Tao.  The process of spiritual development is cyclical and ongoing. Each of Golden Path Alchemy’s skin care line, Awaken, Purify, Refine, Renew and Illuminate, is designed to support the holistic enlightenment of skin, body and spirit.

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GoPet

Helen Fu, owner and force behind MyGoPet, Inc. recognized that there was a great need for a personal transportation vehicle in many industries and among individual riders.  From her experience in the two wheel scooter industry, she realized that a three wheel electric scooter was perfectly positioned to fill this need.  This was to be a serious transportation vehicle designed for adults but retaining a fun factor at the same time.  And it had to be battery powered, using only pennies worth of electricity to move its owners efficiently across industrial floors, wooded paths, sidewalks and city streets.

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Grace & Ivy

Grace & Ivy is dedicated to creating paraben-free, cruelty-free, herbal beauty products that promote health, well being and an awareness of the natural world.

In early 2009 Ivette Newport began a quest. As a new mother, she desired a healthy, organic lifestyle for her family. She started investigating the food they were consuming and the products they were using on a daily basis. She was shocked at her findings.  Beauty products were the first to go once she realized how many petro-chemicals, parabens and other toxins they were laden with. Her goal was to begin crafting these bath, beauty and skin care products for her family, using organic, local ingredients. It began with many months of research, study and countless experiments to perfect her organic skin care formulas. The praise and support she received from her family and friends propelled her to the next stage of sharing and eventually selling these products.
Ivette continues to expand her knowledge and has a deep passion for this newly discovered endeavor.

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H&J Global

H&J Global is a brand based on bamboo.  Bamboo fiber clothing, unlike other anti-microbial fabrics which require a chemical treatment, is naturally anti-microbial requiring no added harmful chemicals.  It contains an agent, “bamboo kun”, that prevents bacteria from cultivating on it.  Bamboo apparel is thermal regulating, anti-fungal, anti-static and will keep you cooler, drier, warmer and odor free.  Bamboo fiber also has natural UV protection.  Bamboo is grown without using pesticides or chemical fertilizers.  Bamboo fiber is 100% biodegradable.  Bamboo is nature’s most sustainable resource and is naturally regenerative.  Bamboo is actually a tropical grass, with an extensive root system that sends out an average of four to six new shoots per year, naturally replenishing itself and growing to heights of 60 feet or more.  Some bamboo species grow up to 4 feet per day and can be harvested every 3 to 4 years.

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Instinctive

Ryan and Anne are a married couple that have shared a lifelong enthusiasm for the outdoors, animals, sustainability, and giving back. After 8 years of industry experience making bags for the big guys, Instinctive was born with the purpose of creating affordable, quality bags and backpacks. Using industrial design knowledge, Instinctive works to integrate responsible production and disposal methods with a casual life-style. The goal of each new generation of Instinctive bags is to make a more sustainable bag in an effort to support the global community.

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Isa Booties

IsaBooties™ soft-soled baby shoes are a unique, trend-setting combination of hip, fashionable style and practical baby shoe design. Crafted from soft, yet durable, Ultrasuede® fabric, IsaBooties soft-soled baby shoes combine hip colors with distinctive riboon accents. IsaBooties soles are made from Toughtek®, a grip fabric frequently used in high-end climbing apparel and search and rescue dog booties. This durable fabric is also soft and flexible, making it the perfect choice for soft-soled baby and infant shoes. See why IsaBooties soft-soled baby shoes are the hottest baby shoes around

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Johnny Patch

Johnny Patch makes iron-on jeans patches for your clothing. Our jeans patches are made from recycled jeans to do our part to be green and help the environment. We believe in a simple lifestyle including reusing materials, maximizing the life of goods, and repairing the things we love. If you have jeans that could use a patch, whether you have holes or not, use Johnny Patch iron-on jeans patches.

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Jonano

Why should sustainability be stuffy, unaffordable, or overcomplicated? Jonäno eco chic collections offer designer organic fashion to better the world–through green and fair labor practices. Scandinavian modern designer Bonnie Siefers makes sustainable style look easy…and fabulous. Her line of dresses, tunics, tops, pants and skirts are ethically made, organic, and truly high style.

As an advocate of slow fashion, Jonäno makes the most out of her trans-seasonal and timeless designs. Inspired by nature, at Jonäno eco chic collections you’ll find the most stylishly elegant of organic fashions for both women and babies. Bamboo ecoKashmere Clothing, Begonia and Energy Satin Clothing, Peace Silk Clothing, Hemp Clothing, and organic clothes made of other natural fibers come together to create earth friendly clothing as well as stunning, head turning looks.

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Karmic Health

Our mission is to provide great tasting, healthy, nutrition dense foods for those with gluten, dairy,casein, soy, peanut and sugar sensitivities. Karmic Krunch is not only healthy, it’s unique in the sense of a snack mix. It’s granola meets trail mix!  It’s moist and crunchy and has a caramelized taste that is unlike any other snack mix, trail mix or granola. Eat our hand made gluten free snack mix right out of the bag for a well balanced, treat loaded with fiber, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, duplicated in many of the ingredients such as organic buckwheat, organic brown rice, organic corn,  flax seed, date sugar, raisins, papaya and a generous variety of nuts;in fact 8 different “premium” varieties.  Karmic Krunch ingredients contribute to many health benefits and promotes digestive health, protection against heart disease, anti-inflammatory effects, immune support and bone health.

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Little Pots & Pans Co.

Executive Chef and Owner Kris Pennella transplanted herself from New York City in 2005 with the goal of creating a company that provides customers with access to flavorful, all natural gourmet grab & go meal options.  One of the main draws to Portland for Kris was the enticement of the local farmer’s markets. Besides providing opportunities to market Little Pots & Pans Co. products to our loyal customers, the farmer’s markets created the direct-from-the-farm connection for many of the  ingredients.

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Loopt Works

LOOPTWORKS is an urban/outdoor apparel and accessories line made from 100% UPCYCLED materials. Everything we make is from pre-consumer excess – in other words, materials that get leftover at the factory. Instead of using the world’s limited resources to create new materials, LOOPTWORKS uses high quality, never before used excess materials that already exist. Since we do not know how much material we will find, each product is an individually numbered limited-edition item.

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Missionary Chocolates

A chocolate-loving vegan mother and a passion for natural medicine culminated into the creation of Missionary Chocolates LLC. While in her last year as a naturopathic medical student, Melissa made some non-dairy truffles for her mom Donelle as a Christmas present, and they were so fantastic that a family company and mission was born! Wanting to treat chronic diseases like cancer is what fueled Melissa in her medical career, and the creation of a holistic healing center in downtown Portland became her desire. “Funding Health by Chocolate” has become our company’s goal, to operate a thriving enterprise that exists to provide access to the naturopathic medical services….and to do it deliciously!

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Namuh

Namuh, a design collaborative, is a Portland based lighting company.  We offer a distinct product line and specialize in custom light design.  Namuh Design is conscious of every choice we make about our products. We are sustainably minded, support local business and source eco-friendly materials.  We seek to transform the way you work and live with light.

Namuh design extracts modernist philosophies and pairs them with today’s design archetype.  Designing from a platform of form equal to function, sustainability and loyalty to brand we create our vision – New Century Modern Craft Design

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Naturally Knotty

Naturally Knotty is your source for the world’s finest cashmere, stylish handbags and apparel. By using recycled materials and gorgeous fabric remnants that would ordinarily be swept into landfills, they are doing their part to help the planet. Naturally Knotty is committed to environmentally-friendly manufacturing practices, integrating components of factory scrap, factory overstock or recycled materials whenever possible. They are very careful to insure our products are made in factories that treat their employees fairly because they believe in the end we are all in this together.

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Pangaea

Pangaea is a triple bottom line company—people, planet, profit. We’re a co-operative that’s committed to our customers, our product, our suppliers, the environment and each other. We source our green beans from the best Organic, Fair Trade coffees grown around the world. As with wine, there are distinct varietals of coffee, each with its own unique personality. To ensure a roast profile that suits each coffee’s character, we spend time with each lot of coffee determining degree of roast.

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Peoples Republic of Portland

The People’s Republic of Portland (PROP) is a small, woman-owned clothing company based out of Portland, OR. More than a fashion statement the company focuses on social awareness and political activism in a regional context. Current priorities include support for climate action, health care reform, supporting the local food economy and strengthening the arts. PROP also acknowledges the relevance of civic pride and importance of social justice in our community.
Our mission is to deliver the message of community, acceptance, sustainability, tolerance, and love through a recognizable brand.
Our goal is to give 5% of our profits to local non-profits and to sow the seeds that make Portland so wonderful around the rest of the world.

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Preserve

Preserve is the leading maker of performance driven and stylish 100% recycled household products. Preserve is powered by the recycling efforts of individuals and companies collecting #5 plastic–such as yogurt cups and other common household containers–via Preserve’s Gimme 5 program. The Gimme 5 program collects and transforms #5 plastics into new Preserve products; all recycling and manufacturing is done in the USA. Preserve empowers consumers to make everyday choices that are better for the earth while offering real solutions without compromise. Preserve’s parent company, Recycline, was founded in 1996 to lead the way in mitigating the impacts of the industrial age and to offer innovative solutions for consumers and the earth.

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Reuseniks

Jane, a new mom, joined with a friend and came up with an idea that would change the world for the better. Fed up with the plastic bags they kept getting from their dry cleaners, they stopped using them. Instead, Jane wanted to “reuse”, so she grabbed an old garment bag and THREW HER DIRTY CLOTHES INSIDE IT AND TOTED IT TO THE DRY CLEANERS…But the garment bag was not quite right for her needs. So she put a drawstring on the bottom and a zipper in front and made the bag out of extra-sturdy, 100% cotton. Jokingly, as she started “reusing” the bag, she called herself a Reusenik, and the bag she created became a Clothesnik. The rest is Herstory…

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ROJO Apparel

ROJO Apparel officially launched in September 2009 on the campus of New Mexico State University with a simple mission: to feed the hungry. At ROJO Apparel our goal is to address a major problem; over 1 billion of the world’s people are hungry. What’s even more shocking is how easy it is to help. We want to provide people with an avenue to give while they shop. Every purchase from our site will provide funds to ship meals to the starving people of the world.

We hope that our business model will provide you with the opportunity to help others.We invite you to become a part of the history of ROJO as we seek to begin a legacy of bringing hope to the poor while creating a generation of poverty conscious consumers. ROJO is not just a line of apparel, but a way of living that brings awareness to poverty issues while using our consumption dollars to make a difference.

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Russian River Foods

Hi, my name is Ken Alary, the owner of Russian River Fine Foods; I have been in the culinary industry for over 20 years, and have a culinary degree from the California Culinary Academy. In the mid 90’s I was in Redwood City, California, I taught cooking classes there for two years while executive chef at Encore Performance Catering. From there I was the executive chef at the Powerhouse Brewing Co. in Sebastopol, California, and at Lisa Hemingway’s Bistro in Santa Rosa, California. In 2004, I started Russian River Fine Foods. I have always felt that “sauces are what make a meal.” They add visual appeal, while enhancing and complimenting the flavors of the food as well as increasing the complexity and enjoyment of the entire experience. I believe there will always be a demand for new food products. People’s tastes are vastly unique, and there is a desire to experience innovative flavors like Chipotle Ketchup, as well as updated traditional products like Smokey River Barbeque Sauce.

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Seven Planet Brand Products

seven planet is building the brand to save the planet. To help get there the company is partnering with a finite set of what we call mindful suppliers.  These are companies that build and create products that are working to be as green and sustainable as they can be and that also support the mission of mindful commerce.

Mindful commerce is a way of thinking and consuming.  It is the belief that one should only consume when they are in need of something and if they are in need of a product they will work to purchase the most mindful product available to them.

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SPUN

In early 2007 Sara Seumae started on a journey. Her family had already been bitten by the ‘green’ bug and was quickly making changes in their diet and all other aspects of daily life. It only seemed logical to take that next step into organic clothing. But Sara was not ready to make any concessions when it came to her personal style. She also needed to figure out a way to find quality organic clothing that wouldn’t break her family budget. Sara threw herself into the idea, spending time exploring the organic clothing market beginning in her hometown of Seattle, Washington and expanding across the world. Much to her surprise, she could not believe that what she was looking for was not available. Surely she couldn’t be the only woman out there with this need. An idea was spun! Her father’s experience and his confidence in her success inspired the creation of Spun clothing.

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Sustainable Group

Sustainable Group’s line of recycled office supplies help organizations create awareness while delivering on their overall sustainability promise. Our Corporate Buying Program gives organizations the same pricing as they’d get from a big-box office products business, while ensuring high level of service. The ReBinder was the first of our line of affordable sustainable products all made from post-consumer recycled materials, which now includes binders, folders, CD holders, notebooks, badge holder, labels and other supplies. These innovative and durable, yet practical products are all made from locally sourced materials, by a local work-force. To help companies deliver their message, Sustainable Group also offers in house screen printing of our products. Sustainable Group’s products are sold in bulk quantities online and distributed through retailers.

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Voltaic

Our founder was traveling through Spain and with a small solar charger. Not only did the charger not work very well, it was easy to forget to take it out of the bag to set it up. To work well, a solar charger would need to have much more solar power make charging efficient and a way to make charging devices effortless.  We made several prototypes around this idea before settling on something very similar to the current version of the bags.

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West Paw Design

We live where we work, and the pristine beauty that surrounds us in the Rocky Mountains gives us reason everyday to do our part to protect our environment. We do all we can to reduce waste, making sure to cut as much raw product as possible out of every bolt of fabric, then reusing the scrap material where we can. We rescue and reuse old boxes to store our finished products, and employ recycled material in our packaging. Finally, even some of our products themselves are recyclable! We believe in our responsibility to the next generation, whether four-legged or two!

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