Green Business Leaders 2022
Showcasing our 2022 Businesses
MarinSEL 11th Grade Businesses
Every fall, MarinSEL juniors are tasked with writing a sustainable business plan, which they pitch to a panel of mock investors. Eight of the most promising businesses were selected for spring-time implementation.
Just as businesses across the world necessarily became more agile and innovative to survive the pandemic, so too did MarinSEL students with their entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and community service. This particularly challenging time offers student opportunities to study and practice adaptability as an indispensable element of a successful business model.
We applaud the students for their ingenuity and work ethic, and encourage the community to support them as they forge on!
Explore & Shop the amazing products our student-run businesses are offering…
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Backyard Birdhouses
At Backyard Birdhouses, we build and sell sustainable nest boxes. These products are made out of 100% recycled wood that is healthy for birds and the environment as a whole. We are commited to educating our customers about local birds that live in their neighborhoods through our products and social media.
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Evo-Natural
Smell Fresh and Keep our Earth Clean Evo-Natural is a sustainable business that creates an all natural deodorant that not only is non-toxic but also helps your environmental impact. We focus on making sure all our products are natural and not harmful to the skin. Not only are our products clean, we use packaging that is good for the environment.
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Fire Flora
Wildflowers for Wildfires
Fire Flora supplies Fire Resistant Landscaping Kits to households that are concerned about the fire safety of their yard. Each kit includes one or two fire-resistant plants, brochures that help the customer further their yard’s fire resistance, and a wall calendar with general monthly fire safety tips. We hope to make our community a safer and more beautiful place.
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Flavor Profiles
To Honor and Celebrate
Flavor Profiles is a business that creates Storytelling cookbooks that are made to honor and celebrate the lives of Black women who have died due to police brutality. Through the business, we hope to uplift voices, while also exposing people to the food many people within the Black community hold close to their hearts.
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Free Spirit Suds
Clean Earth, Clean Body
Free Spirit Suds offers sustainable soap made with natural ingredients that benefit your health and wellness and is available to all. We use food-based dyes and exfoliators to craft a soap along with paper packaging in order to keep toxic chemicals and plastics out of the ocean and away from organisms.
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Los Labios del Pacífico
The soothing taste of coastal life.
Los Labios del Pacífico is an environmentally conscious. palm oil free brand that makes a soothing lip balm. This product provides education around the issue that is plastic pollution as well as deforestation and how palm oil contributes to that issue. In doing this, we are creating a more general understanding to stay away from products containing palm oil and made with plastics!
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Patchy Pride
Here at Patchy Pride, we aim to create an inclusive community through the power of queer representation. We create sustainable pins and patches representing flags and identities of the LGBTQ+ community. Our products are completely customizable to ensure the representation of the customer’s unique identity and are made with recycled materials! We believe that to create revolutionary change, you need to be the revolution which is exactly what we wish to inspire our customers to do.
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Simple Scents Candle Co.:
Simple Scents Candle Co. is a sustainable candle company. Simple Scents provides high quality beeswax candles, using recycled jars, beeswax, coconut oil, and essential oils as its only ingredients. As well, Simple Scents provides education on scents from around the world and their cultural importance, promotiong inclusivity in our community.
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