Resources – 2025

 

Some quick details:

• • Choose Indie Sustainable Month is March.
  • Find a downloadable logo here. 
  • View and download our press release template. 
  • View social media examples. 
  • Add these hashtags to your posts: #chooseindiesustainable #chooseindielocal.

• Anyone anywhere can get involved.

Making Ripples

From March 1 to March 31, our Choose Indie Sustainable Month campaign celebrates B Corps, cooperatives, and other triple-bottom-line enterprises.  Together, we urge our communities to take positive action and boost the ripple effects our neighborhoods, towns, and cities receive when we support our locally owned businesses.

Amplifying Our Work

We strive to amplify all local, statewide, national, and international networks’ efforts to promote Choose Indie Sustainable Month during March.

Sharing Inspiration

Choose Indie Sustainable

• Create directories, passports, and other activities that drive shoppers to sustainable Indie Locals in their communities
• Amplify all types of sustainable independent businesses in partner communities (Co-ops, B Corps, and more)

 

• Partner’s Campaign Landing Pages

• • Choose Indie Sustainable Month (NH) 
    • Triple Bottom Line Businesses in the Monadnock Region (2017)
  • People First Economy (MI) 

 

• Businesses for Social Responsibility

• • Webinars & Training: Driving Change in Vermont’s Business Community — VBSR 
  • NHBSR
  • BSR 

 

• Sustainable/Green Business Directories/Certifications

• • https://www.greenamerica.org/gbn 
  • Purchasing with Purpose
  • People and Planet First
  • https://www.goodmarket.global/ 
  • Sustainable Business Leader — SBN Sustainable Business Network 
  • Green Business Boot Camp — Local First Arizona
  • How We Measure Good | People First Economy (MI) 
  • SBN’s Food Saver Challenge – Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia 
    • SBN Releases 2023-2024 Food Saver Challenge Report – Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia 

 

• Impact Reporting

• • Unit of Impact 

 

• B Corps

• • B Corp 
  • B Local Communities – B Lab U.S. & Canada 
    • B Local NYC 
    • B Local Philly
    • B Local Mid-Atlantic
    • B Local Boston    

 

• Cooperatives

• • What is a cooperative? | ICA 
  • What Is A Co-op? | Defining Co-Ops, Types And How They Work
  • Cooperatives Program page from the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Building just and resilient economies through local ownership.  
  • What’s a Co-op? Cooperative Ownership Can Mean Big Possibilities for Workers and Communities 
  • Co-op Month (October) 
  • Find a Worker Co-op 
  • National Co-op Directory 

 

• Triple Bottom Line/Fourth Sector Economy

• • Triple Bottom Line
  • The Fourth Sector Group  
  • ICLEI USA 

 

• Inclusion and Diversity

• •  CS Black Business Net — SBN Sustainable Business Network 

• Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (JEDI) – B Lab Global

 

• Other Resources

• • Cities CAN B 
  • Fifty by Fifty 
  • World Water Day 
  • Sustainability Month 2023 – UB Sustainability (April)  
  • The Buzzy Edible Insect Trend is Gaining Traction in the West – Modern Farmer 
  • Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Business – SBN (PA) 
  • SBN Announces Finalists for the 2024 Triple Bottom Champion Award – Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia 
  • Connecticut Sustainable Business Council 

 

• Other Certifications

• • • Green Restaurant Association Certification Standards 

• Regenerative Organic Certified™: The Next Step in Organic Certifications 

• More Directories

• • ASBN Leadership Business Members 
    • https://www.asbnetwork.org/inflation-reduction-act 
  • Directory & Map — SBN Sustainable Business Network (MA)
  • B Corps (MI) 
  • Member Directory – VBSR (VT)
  • https://nhbsr.org/our-members (NH)
  • https://sbngreaterphilly.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/sbngreaterphilly/publicaccess/membershipDirectory.do?md=1& (PA)
  • https://utahclimateactionnetwork.com/members-directory/ (UT)

 

Celebrate Sustainability 

• Highlight how communities are coming together to support sustainability efforts

 

• Organizations

• • Co-op Cincy (OH)
  • CO-OP Dayton (OH)
  • Power Local (CO) 
  • Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado 
  • Finger Lakes ReUse (NY)
  • Monadnock Sustainability Hub (NH) 
  • Sustainable Finger Lakes (NY)

 

• Events

• • B Corp Month 2024
  • Earth Festival
  • Green Drinks International 
  • Art Challenge
  • TN Tree Day
    • Tennessee Tree Day 

 

Invest Indie Sustainable

• Highlight efforts to grow new and stronger sustainable independents
• Boost efforts to invest in sustainable independents and entrepreneurs

 

• Local Investing

• • The Main Street Journal 
  • LocalInvesting Q2 
  • https://www.revisionenergy.com/solar-information/stories-inspiration/news-articles/solar-industry-news/community-solar-farms-nh 

 

Cultivate Indie Sustainable

• Drive advocacy and policy efforts that strengthen small business ecosystems for sustainable independents
• Identify pollinator enterprises and other place-based efforts to support sustainable independents

 

• Advocacy

• • The Impact Project | People First Economy (MI)