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Is your business green? People want to know what you are doing to be green. Today everyone is saying they are green or sustainable, but not explaining how they fulfill this claim.

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Using local raw materials

Awarded to individuals or organizations that are using locally produced raw materials in their business practices. Examples: furniture craftsman uses local woods from reclaimed barns to create pieces, company uses local compost company to supply nutrient-rich soil to grow produce, etc...


Green Directory clients that have been awarded the Using local raw materials badge.

Woof This Way
We feed the animals Natural Balance which has no by-products and is purchased from a local distributor.
Greenspace Landscaping
We buy as much locally as possible. Trees, shrubs, Stone, bulk materials. We are very active in using reclaimed materials in our landscapes. We use lots of bulk material and are constantly looking out for minimizing our wastes.
Anders Lewendal Construction
The most efficient job sites are the ones with the smallest waste piles. We strive to reduce and reuse as many products on site every day. Any lumber remaining on the job is cut up and used in our high efficiency wood burning stove.
Headwaters Floating Islands
We get supplies such as fasteners, lumber, Trex, locally whenever possible.
J Bar L Ranches
All of our building supplies and ranch supplies are sourced at locally owned business. We need to keep our neighbor businesses healthy to limit our transportation costs. Like most ranches, we utilize every bit of raw material that we can for building projects.
GreenEdge Kids
Boxes are from local stores and sources. Most clothing is produced in the U.S., and most of the U.S.-produced clothing is made in southern California. We do all our printing, both for t-shirts and for postcards, in San Diego County to minimize any shipping back and forth. We look for products that are not only made in USA, but made in USA of US-milled fabrics and US materials to cut down on shipping. For example, we made sure our sustainable hang tags were made in California, despite the fact that most sustainable hang tags are printed up in Hong Kong
Montana Stones
All of our stones are from Montana.
Montana Prefinish
Most of our raw materials are shipped from Utah - the closest supplier available. The shipping is done on a dedicated trucking route that runs regardless of our order. We order in bulk to minimze the frequency of our shipments.
All Things Italian
We use local produce and meats as often as possible.
Swift Building Lofts
Refinished, reupholstered, and antique furniture. Salvaged materials include wood beams, doors, trim, hardwood flooring, and re-lites.
Mark Weirich Architect, Inc.
I always specify stone found locally for all of my projects. I also specify local species woods to minimize shipping.
City Brew Coffee
We roast all of our coffee locally in Billings, MT.
Rocky Mountain Compost
Local grass clipping, tree chips, livestock manure, sawdust and yard trimmings.
Best Western Clock Tower Inn
Stella's breads use wheat and honey made in Montana and they carry Made in Montana products.
On Living Water
The water we use is local municipal water.
Inner Path Solutions
Produce from local organic farmers.
Riverworks, Inc.
Timber, flooring and trim material from local forests and mills, local natural stone, and a practice to buy local in all facets.
Western Sustainability Exchange
WSE promotes the use of raw materials locally by operating the Livingston Farmers Market as way for farmers to sell directly to consumers. We also operate a Montana Farm to Restaurant Connection Program to connect local products to local restaurants, caterers, hospitals and concessionaires.
Hermans ECO INC.
We have a green house with an organic garden. We don't buy bottled water, we go to a mountain spring.
Goff Architecture, Ltd
Examples of local products that we use include; ICF concrete forms made in Belgrade and lumber that is locally harvested and milled in Montana.
Barta Built
We used straw from our organic farm for a straw bale house we built.
Sanderson Stewart
Utilize local sources wherever possible.
JW Synthetic Grass Inc.
use local gravel and shop locally
Hansard Design, LLC
The Scalewatcher is completely American-made, although the engineering was designed in Holland.
Bosco Powder Coating
We source our steel from Pacific Steel, a local company.
Bitterroot Valley Forest Products
Most of our lumber comes from local sawmills and forests.
Zoo Montana
Compost pile
New West Landscapes
New West Landscapes specifies locally manufactured, rapidly renewable materials in our projects. We use locally manufactured steel edging, as well as local mulch, and stone. We specify locally grown plant material. We specify local, small diameter wood tree stakes in all of our projects as opposed to steel stakes which are manufactured in China and transported across the world before they get to our projects.
Green Directory Montana
Green Directory uses local printers and local sources for the majority of our needs.
Leland Builders
Framing lumber, particle board under layment
Design 5, LLC
All plant material and services are chosen from local suppliers.
Laura Odegaard & Ryan Thomsen
We use all local companies for remodels, landscaping, and housing products as well as local title companies and banks.
Invisible Fence of the Big Sky
We retail West Paw Pet Products made from 100% recycled materials in Bozeman, MT.
Distinctive Countertops & Cabinetry
Our raw materials can only come from specific stone quarries around the world but Conentino is one of our distributors who we work with and they are the producers of ECO and they are also an adamant partner in the green process. We also order much of our stone from Montana Stone Gallery and this reduces drive costs as opposed to ordering from a national company that would ship it\'s products from a city further away.
Field of Dreams
We use Rocky Mountain Compost, a local business, for all of our compost needs.
Big Sky Town Center
Our buy local program encourages the community to purchase locally. We use local service providers and merchants as much as possible.
Red Quill Ranch, LLC
Local lumber mills.
Energetechs
We buy locally whenever possible and we encourage our clients to do the same. One of the raw materials that we love to get locally is "Good Wood" which is local, sustainably-harvested lumber from restoration forestry.
Fill the Gap, Inc.
We buy from a reuse business, Home Resource, for most of our construction needs.
Transtech Data Center - Parsec Data Management
The majority of our building's materials came from Montana with only two suppliers located in Wyoming.
Hungry Worm Products, LLC
Donations and collections garden waste and manure.
Caskets by Design
We buy our wood locally.
Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design
We like to deal or shop locally.
Bozeman Green Build
As a part of our LEED certification, we source products from locations within a 500 mile radius, including earl fisher bio-fuels and limber from Havre.
Hands On Healing
We use only local sources of raw materials in our current office and our healing center under construction.
Integral Grace LLC
Yes, we use local spaces for classes.
Great Bear Builders Inc
Logs from our tree farm will be used to make flooring & millwork that will be sued in our projects.
Western Awards and Engraving Co., Inc.
We use a local manufacturer for wood sources.
O2 Architects PC
To the degree possible such as gravel, stone and wood.
Lowe Homes
stone, timber, everything local.
CatTamboo Toys
We use feathers from local hunters who would otherwise throw them away. We also get feathers from our local wildlife fish and game department and will be networking with non-profits such as the Wild Turkey Federation to salvage feathers obtained via their recreational activities.
Clover
Some of the materials in our furniture and home accessories come from Montana
Montana Timber Products
We harvest all of our timber locally. Unlike other lumber manufactures who import wood products from other countries, over seas, and other states; we harvest our timber within the state of Montana.


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