There are plenty of ways for businesses to help protect and support the natural world. Some companies pledge to reduce their carbon footprint or use recycled materials in their manufacturing, while others choose to provide financial support for tree planting or other initiatives meant to offset their environmental impact. Here are nine companies that are helping the planet by making sustainable practices and goals part of their core mission.
Companies That Help the Environment
- Mill
- LanzaTech
- Nori
- Aspiration
- UPSIDE Foods
- Bluebird
- Pela
- Seventh Generation
Companies That Help the Environment
Headquarters: Westminster, Colorado
KPA offers a SaaS product to help mid-sized businesses access workforce compliance and environment, health and safety, or EHS, services. It helps organizations minimize risk and provides consulting services and training content with the aim of helping clients protect assets, retain top talent and achieve regulatory compliance.
Headquarters: Fully remote
Lob’s technology enables efficient direct mail marketing operations across industries like e-commerce, healthcare, financial services and telecommunication. Lob has committed to mail production practices that are sustainable and completely carbon neutral. For example, mail printed through Lob contains recycled materials.
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
Crusoe says its goal “is to align the future of computing with the future of the climate.” It offers solutions that mitigate the negative environmental impacts of cloud computing and provide digital infrastructure for efficient renewable and clean energy usage. Crusoe also makes technology to reduce natural gas flaring and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in oil production.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Invenergy’s expertise covers the entire lifecycle from development and design to operations for clean energy projects around the world. Its wind, solar and other energy projects generate power for millions of homes. The company’s capabilities also extend to energy storage and transmission infrastructure. Invenergy says its solutions and commitment to environmental responsibility prevent approximately 64 million tons of CO2 emissions each year.
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
Wasabi builds cloud storage products that can help businesses establish IT infrastructure that supports sustainability goals. Wasabi has an online carbon calculator that lets companies see an estimate of the CO2 emissions associated with their data stored through Wasabi. The company also gives its customers access to a tool from sustainability-focused tech company Zero Circle that provides continuous real-time information about an organization’s carbon footprint.
Headquarters: Jersey City, New Jersey
Oishii specializes in vertical farming technology. It operates indoor facilities that grow two kinds of strawberries, which are described as having a distinctive sweetness. Oishii launched snacking tomatoes as part of its produce lineup in late 2023. The company puts an emphasis on sustainability, using a solar field to power its operations in combination with energy-saving LED lights. Oishii also relies on an advanced circular filtration system to precisely streamline water usage.
Headquarters: Falls Church, Virginia
BAE Systems is a global company with team members working across more than two dozen countries to design and engineer aerospace, security and defense solutions. Its services and expertise include development of technologies that help clients shift toward electrification and achieve more sustainable operations. The company also aims to manage its own environmental impact through initiatives like working toward net zero greenhouse gas emissions throughout the business and joining the UN Race to Zero campaign.
Headquarters: Moline, Illinois
American heavy machinery manufacturer John Deere is known for its farming, forestry and industrial equipment. As climate justice has become a pressing issue in farming and industry, the company has grown its focus on ESG innovations to include reduced emissions goals, sustainability measures, world hunger initiatives and the development of EV technology in heavy machinery manufacturing.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Spotnana’s Travel-as-a-Service platform gives businesses the tools to create a corporate travel program that aligns with company policy and embraces sustainability. Through the Spotnana Carbon Removal service, companies can opt to offset all or part of their travel-related carbon emissions. The program is administered in partnership with environmental services company Creturner, which uses a process called Bio Carbon Capture and Storage to convert waste biomass into coal that’s permanently stored in unused mining shafts. Spotnana issues its customers a blockchain-based token that serves as a digital certificate securely documenting the carbon removal in a way that can’t be manipulated.
Headquarters: San Bruno, California
Mill is a food recycling service that takes the place of at-home composting by turning kitchen scraps into food for chickens. Customers get a Mill kitchen bin, which turns their food waste into a compressed substance the company calls Food Grounds. Food Grounds are then either put out for pickup from Mill drivers and turned into chicken feed or customers can use them at home for backyard chickens. Cutting down on food waste contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to Mill.
Headquarters: Skokie, Illinois
LanzaTech makes biorecycling technology that abates carbon dioxide in the environment, turning carbon into sustainable goods and raw materials. Its mission is to build out a circular carbon economy to aid in arresting climate change. With its three existing commercial plants, Lanza Tech has taken thousands of tons of carbon out of the environment and says it has plans to multiply its impact with additional plants in the future.
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
Nori is a carbon removal marketplace, which means that it serves as a go-between for companies that sell CO2 removal and businesses who need to offset their emissions by purchasing removals. Using units known as “Nori Removal Tonnes,” or NRTs, which are generated by regenerative agriculture, it purchases removals and then trades them as offsets.
Headquarters: Marina del Rey, California
Aspiration is a fintech company that offers “sustainability-as-a-service” through cash management accounts that replace traditional checking and savings accounts. When a customer opens an account with Aspiration, their money is invested in an impact investment portfolio focused on reforestation and carbon removal. Customers have the option of setting their own monthly fees for cash management under a “Pay What Is Fair” model.
Headquarters: Berkeley, California
UPSIDE Foods makes “cultivated meat”— meaning meat that is grown from cells in a lab, with zero carbon impact. So far, it’s successfully made beef meatballs, chicken and duck, with plans for breakfast sausages and chicken patties. Starting with chicken, the company received a green light from the FDA to develop lab-produced meat, and UPSIDE received USDA approval to hit the US supply chain.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Bluebird works with consumer product brands on a consultancy basis to help increase their sustainability and decrease their carbon footprint. Starting at the product development stage, it calculates the cost and climate impacts of substituting materials and adjusting design, with the goal of a more profitable and sustainable end product.
Headquarters: Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Pela makes compostable cell phone covers and wearable accessories. In comparison to the disposable plastic industry standard, its products on average result in 30 percent less carbon emissions and 34 percent lower water usage, according to the Pela website. Pela’s offerings include phone cases, watch straps, AirPod cases and phone grips, which the company says are ethically manufactured and third-party verified for sustainability.
Headquarters: Burlington, Vermont
Seventh Generation makes hypoallergenic, environmentally safe household and cleaning products, including paper goods, laundry detergent and dish soap. Its products contain plant-based ingredients that the company has committed to ensuring are sustainably sourced and biodegradable as well as packaged in recyclable or reusable materials. For transparency, all ingredients in Seventh Generation products are listed on the company website by name, purpose and source.
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