
Revelstoke Green Business Award Winners
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Chocolate Summit
Comfort Zone Delivery
D's Helping Hands
Flowt Bicycles & Skis
Kendra Powell's Mountain Meals
The Modern Bakeshop & Café
Mountain Goodness
The Refinery Day Spa
The Secret Garden Bookshop
Talisman Fibre & Trading Company
VerdaTech Energy Management & Consulting
Wild Flight Farm
Do you know a business that deserves a green business award? Contact NCES.
Below is a list of businesses in Revelstoke who are doing their part to reduce their ecological footprint.
Ambrosia Day Spa and Salon
402 Third St W
(250) 837-3688
www.ambrosiadayspa.com
Ambrosia recyles the hair from its salon by sending it to California where it is used in matts that soak up oil after an oil spill.
Anna Young
(250) 837-2630
www.greenerfootprints.com
Info Coming Soon...
Chocolate Summit
823 Tum Tum Cres.
(250) 837-1185
www.chocolatesummit.com
Chocolate Summit offers organic chocolate creations hand made in Revelstoke. CS is also the 2008 winner of the Home-Based Business Award from the Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce.
Coast Hillcrest Hotel
2100 Oak Drive
(250) 837-3322
www.hillcresthotel.com
Info Coming Soon...
Comfort Zone Delivery
(250) 837-4967
www.comfortzonedelivery.com
Info Coming Soon...
D's Helping Hands
(250) 837-8148
debi_fraser@hotmail.com
D's Helping Hands is a cleaning business with a focus on toxic free products and wise choices for personal health
and the environment.
Flowt Cycle
709 Victoria Rd
(250) 837-4044
www.flowt.org
Flowt has eliminated plastic bags from its shop, reducing their impact on surrounding landfills and helping to make Revelstoke a little greener.
The Modern Bakery
212 Mackenzie Ave
(250) 837-6886
The Modern charges $0.25 for paper cups as a means of reducing excess waste. Stay in and enjoy a hot coffee, or bring your own mug. All proceeds from the paper cup charge are donated to the North Columbia Environmental Society.
Mountain Goodness
1601 Victoria St
(250) 837-4352
Mountain Goodness has a variety of natural and organic foods, and products.
PT Farm Market
1401 Victoria St
(250) 837-2788
PT Farm Market has a large selection of local and organic produce and meat. Buying locally reduces your carbon footprint by cutting down on the amount of fuel used to transport food from where it's produced to where it's consumed.
PT Farm Market is attempting to reduce the use of plastic bags by charging ¢5 for each bag. The proceeds from this are donated to local environmental causes.
Refinery Day Spa
217 MacKenzie Ave, Suite 202
(250) 837-7080
The Refinery Day Spa uses environmentally-friendly products and a more natural approach to services in this downtown spa.
Return-It Bottle Depot
97 Cartier St. Industrial Park
(250) 837-2693
Info Coming Soon...
Revelstoke Car Share
(250) 352-2704
www.nelsoncar.com
Being a part of the Car Share reduces environmental impact by reducing the number of vehicles and km's driven, and having better maintained cars resulting in cleaner emissions. If you don't drive that often, consider joining the Car Share in Revelstoke.
If you don't want to commit to the Car Share but still need a ride to or from Revelstoke, try the Kootenay Ride Share website to arrange travel plans: www.kootenayrideshare.com
The Secret Garden Bookshop
103 2nd Street W
(250) 837-3353
www.secretgardenbookshop.ca
The Secret Garden Bookshop has a number of initiatives that make them a green business. Re-using books and reducing paper consumption is an obvious one. The Secret Garden has also gone plastic bag-free, donates proceeds from re-usable canvas bag sales to Greener Footrpints, and plans on offering discounts for re-usable mugs when purchasing coffee.
Talisman Fibre & Trading Company
211A MacKenzie Avenue
(250) 837-6565
www.talismantrading.org
Talisman Fibre & Trading Company sells locally made, organic products. Along with fair trade products, TF&TC stocks innovatively re-used and recycled products.
USED - Unlimited Supplies from Everyone's Discards
(201) 467-5181
www.recycledseatbelts.ca
A single auto recycler puts over 600 Lbs of seatbelt in the landfill each month. USED designs bags and accessories from the used seatbelts, reducing landfill and creating a durable, locally-made, fahionable product.
VerdaTech Energy Management and Consulting BC
(250) 814-8719
www.energyexperts.ca
VerdaTech is an
energy auditing firm focused on improving energy efficiency of buildings and homes. VerdaTech performs energy assessments and can direct clients to government grants available for energy improvements.
Wild Flight Farm
(250) 838-7447
wildflight@jetstream.net
Wild Flight Farm is a BC certified organic farm located in Mara on the Shuswap River. Not only can you do your part for the environment by eating organic and reducing pesticide use, but buying locally also reduces greenhouse gas emissions.