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American Professional Surfer Courtney Conlogue on the water.

Courtney Conlogue – American Professional Surfer

The top-ranked professional surfer found her calling as a surfer at a young age while growing up in Santa Ana, California.

Storefront of Cire Trudon, a sustainable candlemaker.

Cire Trudon – Heritage French, Sustainable Candlemaker

A sustainable candlemaker company that is committed to crafting complex and exclusive scents.

Devoción Coffee – A Farm-to-Table Coffee Company

With Colombian coffee, Sutton set out to create Devoción, the only true farm-to-table coffee roaster.

Barbara Guarducci – Social Impact Textile Designer

Guarducci oversees design projects that combine social value with beauty and works with artisans from all over the world.

Monteverdi Tuscany – Boutique Hotel in Italy

Castiglioncello del Trinoro is a 900 year-old village in the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany where Monteverdi Tuscany began.

Vertical wooden mill warping for Bronte by Moon.

Bronte by Moon – Heritage British Vertical Woolen Mill

Bronte by Moon is a branch of the textile powerhouse Abraham Moon & Sons that features both home and fashion accessory lines using a heritage British vertical woolen mill.

Cottar’s Safaris – A Kenyan Camp Preserving Biodiversity

Calvin Cottar’s Safari Camp protects Kenya’s natural biodiversity and offers guests contact with the local Maasai culture.

Michelle Parker, an advocate for skiing safety, skiing down the mountain.

Freeskier Michelle Parker – Advocating Skiing Safety

Parker found her true passion in freeskiing and used that passion to create avalanche safety program S.A.F.E.A.S.

Eleven Six – A Women’s Sustainable Knitwear Brand

Catherine Carnevale, a British fashion designer and entrepreneur, launched Eleven Six with her husband Nick. The brand is based in New York and sustainably produced in Peru and Bolivia with artisan makers.

Landscape of the winery used to make wine from Avignonesi Winery.

Avignonesi Winery – Leader in Biodynamic Viticulture

Inspired by the Tuscan terroir in historic Montepulciano, Italy, Saverys dares wine drinkers to consume consciously from grape to glass.

Photograph of farm, at Cypress Grove Chevre, where humane certified goat cheese is produced.

Cypress Grove Chevre – Humane Certified Goat Cheese

Cypress Grove is an international, award-winning goat cheese success that promotes humane goat dairying.

Studio 189 – Promoting and Curating African Fashion

Meet the founders behind Studio One Eighty Nine, the socially and environmentally conscious clothing brand that incorporates their own African designs, textures and culture.

Lena Skadegard Designs, hand-crafted jewelry created in India.

Lena Skadegard Designs – Hand-Crafted Jewelry in India

Jewelry designer Lena Skadegard draws from nature’s subtle nuances and the energy of raw stones.

Choice Humanitarian – Empowering Rural Communities to Create their Own Vision out of Poverty

Two men, one city, one shared passion – and, today, an impact spread wide across seven different countries.

Painting entitled, Plage normande, by Bulgarian artist, Albert Hadjiganev.

Albert Hadjiganev – Bulgarian Artist

Bulgarian born painter Albert Hadjiganev’s sensitivity to nature, alongside his knowledge of art history and fine art technique, inspires a masterful and a mysterious collection of landscapes.

FACE Stockholm – Clean and Cruelty-Free Cosmetics

FACE Stockholm brings the Swedish beauty ideal to women globally through products that are natural, clean and full of color.

Hand blown glass lights by Curiousa and Curiousa hanging on the ceiling.

Curiousa & Curiousa – Hand-blown Bespoke Glass Lights

The handmade glass lighting company from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK, has received multiple accolades for its hand-blown bespoke glass light designs.

Landscape photo with yellow flowers in a field.

Rigoni di Asiago – Organic, Vegan Honey and Spreads

One of the first certified organic companies within Europe, this family-owned business based in Northern Italy is on a mission to share their low waste and vegan honey and spreads.