Finding sustainable suppliers for your day to day needs can be a time consuming and daunting task but ETHOS resource centre is here to help.
As tourism businesses begin implementing more sustainable business practices it helps to know where to find companies that provide products and services that also practice the quadruple bottom line of People, Profit, Planet and Place. ETHOS provides a business directory listing that is updated on a regular basis, providing company information and contact details. This allows tourism operations to quickly find reputable companies to do business with, so your time can be spent running your business and working on your sustainable business practices. As more industries move towards the sustainability model, everyone benefits and ETHOS can connect you to those organizations.
The listings found here are not exhaustive and the ETHOS network is your forum to add your information and feedback on the suppliers listed here.
Products
Amenities and Gifts
- Saul Good Gift Co.
www.itsaulgood.com
Unique corporate gifts to delight the senses and benefit the environment and community.
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JRS Amenities
www.jrsamenities.com
Offers recognized brands, distinctive packaging, customized designs and environmentally-friendly options for the international hotel, hospitality, airline and cruise industry.
Trade Shows
Exhibit Creative
www.exhibitcreative.com
Offering top of the line environmentally friendly display products, including bamboo pop up banners.
Food and beverage
Savoury City Catering
www.savourycity.com
Full Service corporate caterers using sustainable practices and giving back to Vancouver's community.
Edible Planet
www.edibleplanet.ca
Experts in catering to remote filming locations, no project too big or small for this sustainable catering company.
One Planet Catering
www.oneplanetcatering.com
Green caterers in Vancouver, portion of revenue goes to social and environmental causes.
Cleaning & Toiletries
Gilchrist & Soames
www.gilchristsoames.com
"Responsible Luxury" is their mission, providing environmentally friendly toiletry products for high end hotel and resort properties and clients.
North River Wind
www.northriverwind.com
Part of Cascades Tissue Group, broad selection of 100% recycled tissues and paper towel for any business or institution. Manufactured with electricity used by their own wind energy source.
Waste Management
Redux
www.reduxprogram.com
Ensures the responsible and cost effective recycling of a restaurant's cooking oil, protecting our environment, communities and local food sources.
Waste-Not-Basket
www.waste-not-basket.com
Products that are the ultimate consumer recycling solution for your hotel or resort. Stylish and blending seamlessly with any décor, they make recycling fast, clean and easy, not to mention what they do for reducing raw waste disposal costs and adding potential recycling revenue. Products are available in many different sizes, shapes, colors, and materials including wicker, rope weave, Havana, and recycled plastic – all in both 4 and 2 compartments styles.
Goslyn Environmental Systems
www.goslyn.ca
Restaurant grease management systems. Environmentally friendly oil and grease removal from waste water systems.
Organic Resource Management Inc.
www.ormi.com
Specializes in regularly scheduled pumping of grease interceptors for restaurants across Canada. All residuals removed from customer locations are transported only to government approved processing facilities such as GVRD wastewater treatment plants or anaerobic digesters for the generation of renewable biogas energy.
Building
Light House Sustainable Building Centre
www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com
With a showroom based in Vancouver, this is a one stop shop resource for any supplier or person looking to build or renovate sustainably.
Office
- Elephant Poo Poo Paper
www.poopoopaper.com
Collected from elephant conservation parks, 100% recylced, tree-free, odorless beautiful paper and portion of profits to elephant welfare and conservation.
Services
FINANCIAL resources, incentives and grants for Green Building & Renos
Advertising and Marketing
Change Advertising
www.changebiz.com
Change enables brand innovation. Creative strategists whose passion is green brand innovation.
Consulting
InterVISTAS
www.intervistas.com
A leading management consulting company with extensive expertise in the transportation and tourism industry. Their environmental services include: environmental strategic plans, environmental audits, GHG accounting and management, carbon offsetting programs, indicator development and reporting, and policy analysis. They have completed more than 1,500 projects with over 400 clients in 60 countries worldwide.
- Sustainability Partners
www.sustainabilitypartners.com
Experts in values-driven, large-scale, system-wide organizational transformation, representing some of the most successful and well-established organizations in the world.
Passion for Action
www.passion4action.com
P4A provides unique approaches to environmental sustainability awareness, education and action inspiration. Their offerings include customizable on-line tools, communication strategies, and the development of turnkey web-based engagement programs. P4A is proud to have been chosen by ETHOS as their technology partner to develop their web site and Travel Calculator.
Greenomics Corporation
www.greenomics.ca
Discover the strategic business of sustainability. Improve your bottom line, improve employee engagement and retention and ready yourself for the business of the future.
Anna Pollock
www.annapollock.net
An accomplished international key-note speaker for the tourism and travel industry and over 30 years of strategy and consulting, Anna is a true agent of change.
Marr Consulting Services
www.marrcc.com
Working to promote sustainable tourism development and initiate new and innovative ideas to bring travellers to varied destinations.
EcoPeak Consulting
www.ecopeak.ca
Web strategy specialists working with organizations to leverage online technologies to save your company time and money. They write compelling and concise web content with a focus on search engine optimization and work closely with clients to develop and implement social media and online marketing strategies.
Energy Management
- Drexan Energy Systems Inc.
www.drexanheattracer.com
Offers consulting services to establish ISO 14064-compliant Carbon Offset Plans to create Carbon Offsets. Specific to any members who operate tour buses or rental vehicle fleets, they have an expertise in quantifying the benefits of Nitrogen tire inflation and harvesting the resultant reduction in burned fuel as Carbon Offsets.
Carbon offset credits
Pacific Carbon Trust
www.pacificcarbontrust.ca
PCT is a Crown Corporation under the BC's Governments Climate Action Plan who's mandate is to deliver quality BC-based greenhouse gas offsets to help clients meet their carbon reduction goals and to support growth of this industry in British Columbia.
Offsetters
www.offsetters.ca
Providing high quality solutions for individuals and organizations seeking to reduce their climate impact.
ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates
www.eraecosystems.com
Founded in 2004, working on offset projects with communities and First Nations to restore degraded ecosystems.
