Eco Businesses
EcoSense Goods
EcoSense Goods makes reusable No Paper Towels, reusable cotton rounds, and reusable fabric gift bags all with solar energy. These products help reduce single use waste, save money and are so much more fun to use! We love sharing tips and additional uses with customers.
Feature: Compost distribution (members only)
Green Box Compost
Green Box Compost makes it simple, easy, and clean to divert your food waste from the landfill. We swap out your bucket every other week and compost the contents, so your food waste becomes soil - not methane.
Green Life Trading Co.
Green Life Trading Co. is a sustainability focused store specializing in bulk goods and green products for home and personal care. We offer a wide variety of items from shampoos to laundry detergents to hair styling gel that are available in-store or online where you can sample itty bitty amounts or go big and buy bunches.
Hinoki Florals and Gifts
Hinoki is a floral preservation studio that focuses on local and sustainable artistry. All florals are grown, gathered, and designed within 50 miles of Madison, WI. We offer ready-to-order botanical originals and reproductions, specimen preorders, and bouquet preservation for special events.
Midwest Solar
Midwest Solar Power is dedicated to transforming homes in the Madison, Wisconsin area with state-of-the-art residential solar power systems. With over a decade of experience, their team of skilled residential solar installers specializes in customized solar solutions that seamlessly integrate with home's unique architecture and the local utility grid.
Feature: Bring your own coffee cup
Radical Coffee
Radical Coffee will be selling coffee and espresso based drinks in compostable and eco-friendly cups. Bring your own coffee cup to be extra earth-friendly.
Feature: Personal Electronics Recycling
Sage Sustainable Electronics
At Sage Sustainable Electronics, we responsibly recycle and refurbish electronics & securely wipe customer data. With our friends at DANEnet and other non-profit organizations, we supply grant funded low/no cost laptops to community members in an effort to bridge the digital divide.
Sandhill Goods
Sandhill Goods is a secondhand and vintage shop located on the East side of Madison. We focus on bringing new life to secondhand clothing, accessories, home goods, and more to support the dream of a more sustainable future that understands that nothing, and no one, is disposable.
Feature: Free Milkweed
Sprig Native Plant Nursery
Sprig Native Plant Nursery is a woman-owned, Madison-based online nursery on a mission to help local gardeners replace turf lawns with thriving native habitats. Sprig empowers folks to build resilient landscapes that support local wildlife and strengthen our ecosystem - one square foot at a time.
Feature: Ride a Cargo Bike
The Cargo Bike Shop
Since 2014 The Cargo Bike Shop has helped folks go by bike. Whether it is car-free or car-light, our unique combination of experience and products can help you live a less car dependent life. Less car, more go.
Vengan Pa' Ka LLC
VPK focuses on local, sustainable, and seasonal vegan cuisine. We try to support conscious eating by highlighting a full/circle system. We support ethical and environmentally conscious purveyors, as well as initiatives that are trying to reduce food waste. We also highlight sustainable foraging and eating within our seasons.
Local Non Profits
Beyond Plastics Madison
Our mission is to end plastic pollution everywhere.
Beyond Plastics pairs the wisdom and experience of environmental policy experts with the energy and creativity of grassroots advocates to build a vibrant and effective movement to end plastic pollution.
Climate ChangeMakers
Climate Changemakers is a network of volunteer climate advocates who work together and with their communities to advance no-brainer climate policy solutions. We strive to build community around climate action, making it easy, fun, and accessible.
Dane Buy Local
Dane Buy Local is a nonprofit that supports locally owned businesses through education, connections, and advocacy. This is our mission because a local sustainable economy paired with our local partner's efforts in systemic sustainability is the greatest strength we have for the future.
Feature: Personal Electronics Recycling
DANEnet's Digital Equity Project
At DANEnet's Digital Equity Project, we collect donated laptops from the community, refurbish them, then distribute them to low-income households without computers via our network of nonprofit direct service providers like social workers, caseworkers, educators, and healthcare workers. Our goal is connecting adults on the other side of the digital divide with better jobs, educational success, remote healthcare, and other resources that can help them thrive.
Disconnect Madison
We believe that widespread dependence on algorithm-driven social media is harming our wellbeing and eroding our ability to meaningfully connect with the world around us.
Our aim is simply to help people by reducing that dependency through intentional choice and solidarity.
Driftless Folk School & Thoreau College
The Driftless Folk School is a community of lifelong learners cultivating personal and cultural resilience through hands-on educational experiences.
We are proud to offer intergenerational community-based learning experiences in agriculture, land stewardship, natural history, traditional and contemporary crafts, and traditions & skills for community resilience.
Edible Landscapes Committee
The Edible Landscapes Committee started in April 2025 with a vision of creating and sustaining edible landscapes with and for communities across Dane County. We believe that through acts of collective nourishment, knowledge sharing, and reciprocity with our land and neighbors, we can foster a more resilient and sustainable local food system that better supports the essential needs of humans and wildlife.
FairShare CSA Coalition
FairShare CSA Coalition is an organization that works to connect people to local farms as members of Community Supported Agriculture programs. We support food access throughout Wisconsin with our Partner Shares Program, and support farmer peer education about sustainable agriculture practices both across the Midwest and nationally.
Wisconsin Food Forests
We are sustainable landscape designers, gardeners, locavores, naturalists, and enthusiasts who want to see food forests all over Dane County and beyond. We are here to give you instructions on how to plant your own food forest. Join us in greening Wisconsin and providing food for yourself and others.
Creative Repair & Reuse Demos