Growing Greener: Connecticut’s Sustainability Scene

Trifecta Ecosystems is innovating food production using hydroponic/aquaponic farming — and teaching community members how to fuel local food production through sustainable, inventive solutions.

Save the Sound is working to protect Connecticut’s land, air, and water with numerous programs aiming to conserve Long Island Sound for future generations.

GreenWave is innovating the seafood industry by creating the nation’s first Seafood Hub, offering free seed-to-sale training programs for ocean farmers. Their goal? To change the scaled planting of regenerative ocean crops to positively impact the climate.

Connecticut Green Bank — the nation’s first state-level green bank — is increasing investment into Connecticut’s green economy by offering green energy solutions to home, building and multifamily property owners, contractors, towns and cities, and capital providers.

Hugo & Hoby — one of the only furniture companies in North America that is both a certified B Corp and 1% for the Planet Member — is crafting stunning furniture from reclaimed, salvaged, and renewable materials to support the betterment of the environment.

Blue Earth Compost is enabling homes and workplaces to recycle food scraps back into soil so that they continue their life cycle by becoming compost — and not take up landfills.

Tuckerman & Co. is reimagining clothing production by using organic cotton and partnering with American farmers, greatly decreasing pollution contribution, and increasing the well-being of the farmers.