What Makes a Business Sustainable?
Sustainability is comprised of three pillars – people, planet and profit or social, environmental and economic.
I take it a step further and try to live my life and approach my business with intention. This means I have a conscious, deliberate and purposeful approach.
Here's my approach to intentional living and an intentional business.
Giving back to non-profits in the community including:
- Phoenix Rescue Mission
- Family Promise, and
- Supporting small, women-owned businesses as part of my virtual support team around the country including
- Katie Williamsen (web design for entrepreneurs)
- Aqua Blue Virtual services (virtual assistant/online business manager)
At my home:
- Compost food waste via Recycled City
- When I need to “dry clean” my clothes, I use Organic dry cleaning
- Recycling within City of Phoenix
- Driving my car less than 7,000 miles a year - biking and walking when I can
- Am committed to a zero waste journey – see below.
Giving back to environmental, non-profits in the community (and nationally) including:
Shopping secondhand for my clothes, shoes and accessories and as many home goods as possible.
I’m committed to a journey to reduce the waste and plastic I generate by using the following products:
- Reusable water bottles
- Reusable shopping bags
- Guppy Friend washing bag (catches plastic microfibers)
- Bits toothpaste bites (tubeless toothpaste shipped in compostable packaging)
- Meow-meow tweet deodorant (deodorant in a compostable cardboard dispenser) plus hand cream in glass jars and makeup remover in a glass jar
- Dental lace floss (refillable glass containers with floss, provided in compostable packaging)
- The Yellow Bird soap company (soap bars in a box vs. plastic body wash)
- Linear Beauty for lotion bars (provided in compostable packaging instead of plastic lotion bottles)
- Compostable Pela case for my cell phone (compostable phone cases and more!)
- A safety razor with recyclable stainless blades
- Shampoo cubes
- Powder laundry detergent (comes in a box)
Working with local businesses:
- Secondhand stores - See where I shop here.
- The Fit Alterations - Tailor
- Cobblers Den - shoe repair
- OPACs - Office Supplies and stationary
Supporting a number of locally owned businesses including: