Marketplace

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.

Education

  • Full Employment Council

    1740 Paseo Blvd.
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-471-2330
    www.feckc.org

    The Full Employment Council, Inc. (FEC) supplies employers with a skilled workforce and job seekers with successful training in greater Kansas City.

  • Johnson County Community College

    12345 College Blvd.
    Overland Park, KS 66210
    Phone: 913-469-8500
    www.jccc.edu/sustainability

Energy Efficiency

  • cfm Distributors, Inc

    1104 Union Ave
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-842-5400
    www.cfmdistributors.com

    Cfm Distributors is the Midwest employee-owned provider of sustainable heating, cooling, and refrigeration solutions for home, office and industry.

  • EnergyWorks KC

    Phone: 816-531-7283
    www.EnergyWorksKC.org

    EnergyWorks KC provides resources to help you make smart, easy, energy-efficiency improvements to your home or business to save energy and enhance comfort.

  • FreeEnergy

    Phone: 816-461-8877
    www.FreeEnergyCorp.com

    Residential & commercial energy audits, spray-foam insulation, air sealing, efficient HVAC & duct system design, geothermal GSHP, solar PV power, solar thermal.

  • Heartland Utilities for Energy Efficiency (HUEE)

    Contact: Mary Kay Villegas-Alitz
    www.HUEE.org

    HUEE 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.

  • Metropolitan Energy Center

    3810 Paseo
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-531-7283
    Contact: Bob Housh
    www.kcenergy.org

    The mission of the Metropolitan Energy Center is to help create resource efficiency, environmental health and economic vitality in the Kansas City region.

  • Missouri Gas Energy

    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-756-5252
    www.missourigasenergy.com

    Missouri Gas Energy offers an energy efficiency rebate for customers who purchase a qualifying energy efficient tankless natural gas water heating system.

  • Small Step Energy Solutions

    Shawnee, KS
    Phone: 913-708-8004
    Contact: Mary English
    www.smallstepenergy.com

    Small Step Energy Solutions specializes in home energy auditing and green energy building consultations for both new and existing homes.

  • The Hayes Company

    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-861-8700
    Contact: Mike OConnell or Tim Hayes
    www.thehayesco.com

    The Hayes Co. provides home energy audits, insulation installation, air and duct sealing and home performance testing.

Financial Services

  • First Affirmative Financial Network

    Phone: 913-432-4958
    Contact: Jim Horlacher
    www.firstaffirmative.com

    First Affirmative Financial Network is a management service for investors interested in socially and environmentally responsible funds.

  • UMB Financial Corporation

    1010 Grand Blvd.
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-860-7000
    www.umb.com

    UMB offers complete banking, asset management, health spending solutions and related financial services to personal, commercial and institutional customers nationwide.

Greeting Cards

  • Posty Cards

    1600 Olive St.
    Kansas City , MO
    Phone: 816-231-2323
    Contact: Janet Coats
    www.postycards.com

    Featuring Sustainable Sentiments, locally grown, green greeting cards. Build client and employee relationships with environmentally inspired cards for birthdays, holidays and other occasions.

Home Improvement

  • Habitat Restore

    4701 Deramus
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-231-6889
    Contact: Don Reck
    www.restorekc.org

    Habitat 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

  • Hendrickson Tree Care Company

    Phone: 913-381-6339 (KS) 816-523-1181 (MO)
    www.hendricksontreecare.com

    Take the guesswork out of maintaining your trees by consulting an ISA Certified Arborist for all of your tree care needs.

  • Missouri Organic

    7700 E. 40 Hwy.
    Kansas City, MO 64129
    Phone: 816-483-0908
    www.missouriorganic.com

    Missouri Organic provides a customer drop-off location for green waste, and produces all-natural, Nature Wise Compost that is weed-seed free.

Litter Removal

  • Adopt-A-Highway Litter Removal Service of America

    Phone: 800-540-8694
    Contact: sarah@adoptahighway.net
    www.adoptahighway.net

    Sponsor-A-Highway and receive promotional signage. We take away trash, you take all the recognition. Be Seen as we Clean.

Organic & Local Food

  • Fahrmeier Farms

    9364 Mitchell Trail
    Lexington, MO 64067
    Phone: 816-289-2496
    Contact: Bret Fahrmeier
    www.fahrmeierfarms.com

    Fahrmeier Farms sells their homegrown fruits and vegetables at the City Market, Downtown Overland Park Market and through its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

  • Good Natured Family Farms

    Contact: Diana Endicott
    www.goodnaturedfamilyfarms.com

    Good 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.

  • 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

    www.henhouse.com

Reclaimed Materials

  • Beaver Timber Inc.

    3133 Merriam Lane
    Kansas City, KS
    Phone: 913-831-2518
    beaver-timber.com

    Beaver Timber provides reclaimed, recycled, restored and salvaged wood building materials for architects, builders, contractors, designers and homeowners.

  • Midwest Materials Exchange

    1427 W 9th St
    Kansas City, MO 64101
    Phone: 816-561-1061
    www.midwestmaterialsexchange.com

    The 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

  • The Surplus Exchange

    518 Santa Fe
    Kansas City, MO 64105
    Phone: 816-472-0444
    Contact: Bob Akers
    www.surplusexchange.org

    The Surplus Exchange recycles electronics responsibly, locally and offers pick up from Kansas City metro commercial locations.

Renewable Energy

  • Brightergy

    1617 Main Street, 3rd Floor
    Kansas City, MO 64108
    Phone: 816-866-0555
    Contact: Susan Brown
    www.brightergy.com

    Brightergy, 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.

  • FreeEnergy

    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-461-8877
    Contact: info@FreeEnergyCorp
    www.FreeEnergyCorp.com

    FreeEnergy is a full-service sustainability company, specializing in design and installation of solar PV, solar thermal hot water and geothermal GSHP.

  • Larsen & Associates, Inc.

    Phone: 785-841-8707
    Contact: Jessica Pryor
    www.larsenenvironmental.com

    Larsen & Associates provides geothermal installationrnservices including loop installation, line purging and charging,rnpressure grouting, thermal fusion and drilling.

  • SunSource Homes

    Phone: 816-783-3863
    www.sunsourcehomes.net

    SunSource 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

  • Randy Reed Nissan

    9600 NW Prairie View Road
    Kansas City, MO
    Phone: 816-459-4800
    www.randyreednissan.com

    Randy Reed Nissan offers fast, friendly, simple and fair service and is now featuring the 100-percent electric Nissan Leaf.