Live Sustainably!
The 100 biggest companies in the world have emitted nearly 3/4 of all Greenhouse gases since 1960. Let's start using better alternatives!
We scour the internet for the best sustainable services that do good on planet and wallet.
Do you need to eat? move? buy? sell? rent?.... Whatever you have you do, find the most sustainable alternative here!
Web Hosting
Banks
Electronics
Phone Service Provider
Phone
Search Engine
Fashion
Restaurants
Food
Hotels
Cleaning
Web Hosting
Traditoinal web hosting
- Every website has to be hosted inside of physical data centre, that constantly needs to be cooled
- The internet industry consumes a huge amount of energy.
- The internet is the fastest-growing carbon polluting industry worldwide
- Data centres are expected to emit 14% of global GHG emissions by 2040.
GreenGeeks
- Watch their short video here!
- 300% renewable energy
- Carbon Negative
- They won 47 climate and quality awards
- One tree planted for every new account
Bank
Traditional bank
They invest in Fossil Fuels!!
- Usually, their main driver is to increase shareholder profit
- The largest fossil fuel banks have invested 3.8 TRILLION dollars since the Paris Agreement
- Biggest investors in Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Sustainable and Ethical banks
Use Bank.Green to find out how much impact you can have by switching banks
- "Tomorrow" bank has protected 30 million trees and invested 31.5 million Euros in Social and Environmental Projects
- You can easily track you spending and emissions
Electronics
New devices
Electronics require a lot of rare metals to functions as seamlessly as you like them to. Unfortunately, the process of extracting these metals is damaging both for the environment and for vulnerable workers.
The lifecycle of most devices is also very carbon-intensive and produces a lot of toxic e-waste
BackMarket
Their mission is to fight e-waste by giving restored devices a new life!
- Prevents toxic e-waste from going to landfill
- Cheaper than buying new devices
- Eliminates the huge environmental footprint of buying a device "new"
Mobile Service Providers
Phone Network Providers
The technology industry is responsible for 3.7% of Greenhouse Gases, the same as global aviation (The Shift Project, 2019), and by 2040 the communication technology will account for 14% of the global environmental footprint (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018).
Honest Mobile
- Certified B-Corp
- Donate 1% for the planet
- Carbon Negative
- They Plant Trees
- Offer Living Wages
- (Only has a UK prefix for now)
Smartphone
New iPhone
- Seriously expensive
- CO2 emission: 17-125 Megatons of CO2 per year (85-95% of emission during production)
- Non-recyclable
- Unethical supply chain with heavy metal miners working in unfair conditions
FairPhone
- world's most sustainable and ethical new smartphone
- Cheap and super long lifecycle
- 40% recycled plastics
- Certified B-Corp
- Saves the ocean plastic pollution
- Modular = easy to repair and replace
- Waste Minimized
Search Engine
Traditional Search Engines - Google
- Google emits 40% of the internets carbon footprint
- Your data is stored in massive data centres that require a lot of materials and constant energy-intensive cooling. Your data is also often sold to third parties for advertisement purposes
- Big data can also increase inequalities
- Search engines make 100 billion dollars a year that could be used for good
Ecosia
- Plants trees while you search the web
- 127 million trees planted
- Doesn't store your data and protects your privacy
- Re-greens the desert
- Trees provide clean air, sequester CO2, promote biodiversity and mitigate natural hazards
- They provide vulnerable communities with jobs
Fashion
Fast Fashion
- Unfair working conditions
- High water and land use to grow cotton and other material
- High carbon footprint, especially to make leather
- Clutters your space
Second Hand Clothes
- Prevent used clothes from going to the landfill by giving them a second life
- You can sell old clothes to declutter your space and make money
- You can also buy used clothes at a cheaper price and decrease your fashion footprint by over 90%.
Restaurants
Traditional Restaurants
- Restaurants usually serve animal products such as meat, fish and dairy that have been found to be the single biggest contributors to Water Acidification and Eutrophication as well as Rainforest Deforestation.
- Animal agriculture industry emits more Greenhouse Gases than all of transportation combined
HappyCow
HappyCow is a service that allows you to find vegan-friendly restaurants nearby, as well as providing, reviews and an interesting blog!
- If the whole planet switched to a Plant-Based Diet we would save enough space to feed the entire global population and still have 13% of agricultural land available for Reforestation.
Food
Food Waste
Globally we waste around 30% of all the food we produce, and in western countries, this percentage is even higher!
- Wasted food emits CO2 while it decomposes
- Buying more food than we need is devastating for our lands, streams and oceans
- If not composted, food waste can also take a tool on our waste systems and feed landfills.
TooGoodToGo
“Reducing food waste is one of the most important things we can do to reverse global warming.”
- Certified B-Corporation
- Already saved 77 million meals from being wasted
- They teach Schools, Businesses, Households and Public affairs how reduce their waste
- Makes you save money on food!
Hotels
Normal Hotels
- They often focus on individual luxury and have a massive environmental footprint
- Everything is washed and cleaned continuously using vast quantities of toxic cleaning agents
- Most amenities are single-use and covered in plastic containers, an incredibly wasteful practice
EcoHotels
- Sustainable alternative to large Online Travel Agencies that make you pay between 15-30% in commissions
- Plant a tree for every reservation made through their website
- They only operate with Hotels that are deeply committed to sustainability and have trustworthy certification to prove it
- Vision for a more conscious and sustainable travel industry
Cleaning
Traditional Cleaning Products
- Plastic containers
- Toxic/Polluting
- Releases dangerous chemicals
- Single-use
Ethique
- Certified B-Corp
- 20% to charity
- Zero plastic, palm oil or cruelty
- Compostable packaging
- Carbon neutral, planning to go carbon positive