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Indigenous Designs

Environmental Record (10/10)

  • Indigenous Designs is a Certified B Corportation, ensuring beneficial policies for the environment.
  • The company provides financial incentives to its office employees to minimize energy use and emissions in their daily lives.
  • Its headquarters utilizes solar power.

Social Record (10/10)

  • The company is a Certified B Corportation, ensuring beneficial policies for its employees and their communities.
  • Indigenous Designs provides wages to its artisans that are above convential textile companies.
  • The company offers training, quality equipment, and interest-free assistance loans for its employees.
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Full Environmental Record

Indigenous Designs's products, which consist of wool, alpaca, silk, Tencel, and organic cotton, are all natural. The company has an environmentally friendly culture, from the financial incentives for office employees to reduce energy and emissions in their daily activities to the use of solar power for its headquarters. Additionally, the company is a Certified B Corporation, which requires the company to consider its long-term impact on the environment. The company's founder, Scott Leonard, has also contributed significantly to developing Green Steps (www.greensteps.org), an initiative designed to help the industry exchange, elevate and practice sustainability ideas. Lastly, Indigenous Designs offsets all electricity use by purchasing solar power as well as offsetting carbon emissions from its business activities through the purchases of local green power.

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Full Social Record

Indigenous Designs has formed over 300 partnerships with South American artisans on the basis of fair trade wages and community support. This philosophy is actualized by the company paying wages higher than conventional textile companies, providing higher quality equipment for the workers, as well as training and no interest loans, and procuring materials as close to the cooperatives as possible to benefit their local communities. For its good actions, the company has received the B Corporation Certification, which also requires the company to consider its long-term impact on its employees, suppliers, community, consumers and the environment.

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Indigenous Designs is an all natural fiber company which procures its products through partnerships with over 300 artisan groups from South America. The company sells mens, womens, and kids clothing as well as accessories such as hats and bags. Its products can be purchased online or in many stores across the U.S. (see website for store locator).

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