As part of our services to readers, Marketplace is a resource for local green businesses and services. These are businesses who advertise regularly in Greenability.
Marketplace
Education
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Full Employment Council
1740 Paseo Blvd.
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-471-2330
www.feckc.orgThe Full Employment Council, Inc. (FEC) supplies employers with a skilled workforce and job seekers with successful training in greater Kansas City.
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Johnson County Community College
12345 College Blvd.
Overland Park, KS 66210
Phone: 913-469-8500
www.jccc.edu/sustainability
Energy Efficiency
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cfm Distributors, Inc
1104 Union Ave
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-842-5400
www.cfmdistributors.comCfm Distributors is the Midwest employee-owned provider of sustainable heating, cooling, and refrigeration solutions for home, office and industry.
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EnergyWorks KC
Phone: 816-531-7283
www.EnergyWorksKC.orgEnergyWorks KC provides resources to help you make smart, easy, energy-efficiency improvements to your home or business to save energy and enhance comfort.
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FreeEnergy
Phone: 816-461-8877
www.FreeEnergyCorp.comResidential & commercial energy audits, spray-foam insulation, air sealing, efficient HVAC & duct system design, geothermal GSHP, solar PV power, solar thermal.
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Heartland Utilities for Energy Efficiency (HUEE)
Contact: Mary Kay Villegas-Alitz
www.HUEE.orgHUEE educates the public on energy efficiency through a partnership with Atmos Energy, Independence Power & Light, Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, Kansas Gas Service, Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative and the Metropolitan Energy Center.
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Metropolitan Energy Center
3810 Paseo
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-531-7283
Contact: Bob Housh
www.kcenergy.orgThe mission of the Metropolitan Energy Center is to help create resource efficiency, environmental health and economic vitality in the Kansas City region.
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Missouri Gas Energy
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-756-5252
www.missourigasenergy.comMissouri Gas Energy offers an energy efficiency rebate for customers who purchase a qualifying energy efficient tankless natural gas water heating system.
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Small Step Energy Solutions
Shawnee, KS
Phone: 913-708-8004
Contact: Mary English
www.smallstepenergy.comSmall Step Energy Solutions specializes in home energy auditing and green energy building consultations for both new and existing homes.
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The Hayes Company
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-861-8700
Contact: Mike OConnell or Tim Hayes
www.thehayesco.comThe Hayes Co. provides home energy audits, insulation installation, air and duct sealing and home performance testing.
Financial Services
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First Affirmative Financial Network
Phone: 913-432-4958
Contact: Jim Horlacher
www.firstaffirmative.comFirst Affirmative Financial Network is a management service for investors interested in socially and environmentally responsible funds.
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UMB Financial Corporation
1010 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-860-7000
www.umb.comUMB offers complete banking, asset management, health spending solutions and related financial services to personal, commercial and institutional customers nationwide.
Greeting Cards
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Posty Cards
1600 Olive St.
Kansas City , MO
Phone: 816-231-2323
Contact: Janet Coats
www.postycards.comFeaturing Sustainable Sentiments, locally grown, green greeting cards. Build client and employee relationships with environmentally inspired cards for birthdays, holidays and other occasions.
Home Improvement
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Habitat Restore
4701 Deramus
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-231-6889
Contact: Don Reck
www.restorekc.orgHabitat ReStore collects quality, new and used building materials and sells them to the public at a discount. All proceeds benefit the Habitat for Humanity home building programs.
Lawn & Garden
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Hendrickson Tree Care Company
Phone: 913-381-6339 (KS) 816-523-1181 (MO)
www.hendricksontreecare.comTake the guesswork out of maintaining your trees by consulting an ISA Certified Arborist for all of your tree care needs.
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Missouri Organic
7700 E. 40 Hwy.
Kansas City, MO 64129
Phone: 816-483-0908
www.missouriorganic.comMissouri Organic provides a customer drop-off location for green waste, and produces all-natural, Nature Wise Compost that is weed-seed free.
Litter Removal
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Adopt-A-Highway Litter Removal Service of America
Phone: 800-540-8694
Contact: sarah@adoptahighway.net
www.adoptahighway.netSponsor-A-Highway and receive promotional signage. We take away trash, you take all the recognition. Be Seen as we Clean.
Organic & Local Food
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Fahrmeier Farms
9364 Mitchell Trail
Lexington, MO 64067
Phone: 816-289-2496
Contact: Bret Fahrmeier
www.fahrmeierfarms.comFahrmeier Farms sells their homegrown fruits and vegetables at the City Market, Downtown Overland Park Market and through its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
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Good Natured Family Farms
Contact: Diana Endicott
www.goodnaturedfamilyfarms.comGood Natured Family Farms is an alliance of more than 100 family farms that raise animals humanely and care for the earth in a sustainable way. Their foods are available in Hen House Markets, Balls Price Chopper Supermarkets and the Community Mercantile in Lawrence.
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Hen House
Hen House is locally owned, specializes in Buy Fresh Buy Local food, and offers customers a seasonal Community Supported Agriculture membership.
13 locations in and around Kansas City
Reclaimed Materials
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Beaver Timber Inc.
3133 Merriam Lane
Kansas City, KS
Phone: 913-831-2518
beaver-timber.comBeaver Timber provides reclaimed, recycled, restored and salvaged wood building materials for architects, builders, contractors, designers and homeowners.
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Midwest Materials Exchange
1427 W 9th St
Kansas City, MO 64101
Phone: 816-561-1061
www.midwestmaterialsexchange.comThe Midwest Materials Exchange is a free online marketplace to buy, sell or give away by-products or recyclables. This service is sponsored by the Missouri Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority (EIERA) and managed by Bridging The Gap’s By-Product Synergy program.
Recycling
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The Surplus Exchange
518 Santa Fe
Kansas City, MO 64105
Phone: 816-472-0444
Contact: Bob Akers
www.surplusexchange.orgThe Surplus Exchange recycles electronics responsibly, locally and offers pick up from Kansas City metro commercial locations.
Renewable Energy
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Brightergy
1617 Main Street, 3rd Floor
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone: 816-866-0555
Contact: Susan Brown
www.brightergy.comBrightergy, one of the nation’s fastest-growing full-service solar development and finance firms, offers turn-key solar design, installation, monitoring and in-house financing services.
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FreeEnergy
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-461-8877
Contact: info@FreeEnergyCorp
www.FreeEnergyCorp.comFreeEnergy is a full-service sustainability company, specializing in design and installation of solar PV, solar thermal hot water and geothermal GSHP.
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Larsen & Associates, Inc.
Phone: 785-841-8707
Contact: Jessica Pryor
www.larsenenvironmental.comLarsen & Associates provides geothermal installationrnservices including loop installation, line purging and charging,rnpressure grouting, thermal fusion and drilling.
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SunSource Homes
Phone: 816-783-3863
www.sunsourcehomes.netSunSource Homes offers an array of options, from new sustainable construction and green remodeling to installation of renewable energy systems, to help you identify all the possibilities for energy conservation..
Transportation
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Randy Reed Nissan
9600 NW Prairie View Road
Kansas City, MO
Phone: 816-459-4800
www.randyreednissan.comRandy Reed Nissan offers fast, friendly, simple and fair service and is now featuring the 100-percent electric Nissan Leaf.






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