RESOURCES
Interested in living a more sustainable lifestyle? These local businesses, nonprofits, and government resources can help!
Waste Management | GREEN BUILDING | Transportation | GREENER ENERGY | BEAUTY | Entertainment | Food | What YOU Can Do
Looking for something else? Contact us at [email protected].
Waste Management
How it works: We give you a container, you fill it with compostable waste, (no recyclables), we pick up from you weekly, you receive compost in return!
Phone: 615-398-0209
Email: [email protected]
Middle Tennessee's source for organic waste recycling services! They convert organic waste into high quality soil to be sold as compost, mulch, and topsoil!
Phone: 615-983-1200
Address: 3643 TN 12, Ashland City, TN 37015
Email: [email protected]
Turnip Green collects various forms of paper, craft items, toys, fabrics, office supplies, art supplies (and more!) to be refurbished and redistributed to the community.
Creative reuse helps reduce the size of landfills while supplying tools to artists, schools, and businesses at a low cost.
Phone: 615- 720-7480
Email: [email protected]
Eternal Returns offers a wide range of sustainable goods & services. From eco-friendly home & living products, to sustainable design & wood working, to recycling & composting services, we are here to help you live a more conscious lifestyle.
Complete the “Contact Us” form on the website for more information.
Residential Electronic Waste and Compost Drop-off
Metro residents can bring electronic waste and household compost to these centers.
East Center
943A Doctor Richard G. Adams Drive
Nashville, TN 37207
Phone: 615- 862-8631
Omohundro
1019 Omohundro Place (entrance on Freightliner Drive)
Nashville, TN 37210
Phone: 615- 880-1955
For $9 per month, we will pick up the glass from your front porch twice each month. We deliver a small, gray bin with our G logo for you to use, and all you have to do is make sure it is on the front porch on the service day. It’s very simple, and we can help keep the Earth clean
Email: [email protected]
SMART accepts your unwanted crafts supplies, containers, paper, tech supplies, fabric, stickers, foam board, and more! They offer these materials at a highly discounted price to encourage reuse and reduction of waste.
Phone: 615-454-5808
Email: [email protected]
Green Building
Green Home builds creative custom homes in the Nashville area utilizing the latest green technology and design concepts while working within a client's budget.
Phone: 615-823-0940
Email: [email protected]
Mossy ridge is dedicated to sustainable practices in residential construction that minimizes their environmental impact. They utilize LEED-certified standards and a step-by-step design process involving client, architect, and designer, to make sure a home is both environmentally sound and structurally distinct.
Phone: 615-238-1270
Email: [email protected]
Bill's Contracting and Remodeling
“Regardless how big or small your remodeling project, our capabilities are extensive with our experienced staff for designing green kitchens, eco-friendly bathrooms, new construction, home additions and interior design for your residential or commercial project.”
Phone: 615-300-3914
Address: 1043 Hogans Branch Rd, Hendersonville, TN 37075
E3 Innovate works on existing homes as well as commercial and new homes to make it a healthier, more enjoyable place for your family. Our full range of services for commercial clients can be mixed and matched. We tailor to fit your needs.
Phone: 615-876-5479
Since MiKen Development was formed in 2012, it has been responsible for developing over 260 units within the urban core of Nashville and has a current pipeline of over 600 more units. MiKen's Stack 19 development will offer 19 rental units and 2,000 sq ft of retail in former shipping containers. Way to reuse!
Email: [email protected]
Mid State Construction provides Commercial/Industrial, Geothermal, and Bridge/Structure services for the Greater Nashville Area.
Phone: 931-823-7345
USGBC Tennessee transforms buildings and places to create healthy, prosperous, and sustainable communities through Education, Advocacy, and Action. With over 625 LEED certified projects, they are reducing energy consumption, water usage, and promoting environmental air quality.
Phone: 615-933-8633
Email: [email protected]
Bell & Associates is committed to protecting the environment throughout the entire construction process. This commitment is fulfilled by incorporating sustainable principles and environmentally responsible practices into the company’s administrative and construction operations on every project.
Phone: 615-373-4343
Email: [email protected]
Tennessee Concrete Association
Tennessee Concrete Association is the unified voice for the concrete industry to improve our image and awareness through advocacy, promotion and education that support our members, our community and our future. TCA also specializes in pervious concrete for green building projects.
Phone: 615-360-7393
Transportation
31 convenient B-stations and 263 bright red bikes to get you around Nashville!
Inexpensive, healthy, simple, convenient, B-Cycle is designed to encourage a healthy and environment-centered mode of transportation.
Phone: 615-625-2153
Address: 206 Capitol Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37219
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is supported by member communities. Created in 1988, RTA provides ridesharing opportunities in order to promote the economic growth of our membership and improve the air quality of our community.
phone: 615- 862-8833
email: [email protected]
With over 30 different routes, Nashville MTA provides a convenient and inexpensive means for traveling within Nashville!
Riding the bus reduces traffic volume and carbon dioxide emissions in the city, and helps support the government's public works.
Phone: 615- 862-5950
Email: [email protected]
As Nashville's only solar powered transportation, ELF produces no waste, no pollution, and is legally allowed to travel in bike lanes. ELF can travel up to 20 MPH by pedaling and 30 mph by solar power!
Phone: 615-669-7172
Green Fleet sells a wide variety of bikes, offers service and repairs as well as fun and exciting guided bike tours around Nashville!
Tour guides include local professors, musicians, business people, home brewers, students and more - people that truly represent the unfiltered, local story of Music City!
Phone: 615-379-8687
Email: [email protected]
The Green Truck Moving Company
Moving & Storage Services for homes and businesses!
Eco-friendly reusable packing materials, Green trucks run on B20 fuel - much cleaner than diesel, 100% recyclable paper used for advertisement and contracting
“Give Back” initiative: plant 2 trees after every move
Phone: 615-788-6982
Nashville's First and only all hybrid and alternative fuel taxi fleet!
Email [email protected]
Phone: 615- 424-6000
Greener Energy
Waste-to-energy: convert industrial and municipal waste, or renewable biomass, to a clean-burning fuel gas through an environmentally friendly thermo-chemical process.
“Our patented downdraft gasification technology provides a sustainable and environmentally friendly thermo-chemical process that produces neither smoke nor odor.”
Phone: 615-471-9299
Email: [email protected]
A program started by the Mayor's Office that connects Davidson County homeowners with a variety of resources that help them make affordable home energy improvement, including a helpful list of Home-owner how-to’s.
Phone: 615- 298-1108 ext. 405
Email: [email protected]
Their Online Energy Saving Tools is a suite of online resources that help homeowners identify ways to save money on their home energy bills. Piedmont’s Home Energy Calculator asks the user a few simple questions and then provides an estimate for current energy usage, in addition to recommendations for how to save energy and reduce costs.
Phone: 1-800-752-7504
Email: [email protected]
"At Tennessee Solar Solutions, we will walk you through the complete process of becoming energy independent. When we say “from conception to completion,” you can be rest assured that we mean it."
Phone: 423-535-9350
Email: [email protected]
LightWave Solar is experienced in turn-key solar photovoltaic (PV) design and installation for businesses, homes, municipalities and non-profits.
Phone: 877-748- 1260
Email: [email protected]
Check out Nashville Electric Service's tips on how to save electricity with all aspects of your house!
Socket is Nashville Metro Government's interactive window into ongoing sustainability efforts brought to you by The Department of General Services!
Beauty
“My mission is to stay informed of new organic products and procedures. I want to make sure that clients are able to walk into the salon and feel at ease and comfortable knowing the products he uses are environmentally safe and free of harsh chemicals.”
Phone: 615-939-7020
Pure Nashville: Organic Spa & Salon
Toxin-free salon and spa experience; hair, skin, body, lashes, & overall wellness!
Phone: 615-679-0221
Email: [email protected]
Founded in 2008 in Nashville, TN, Eco Diva provides personal care using products that are truly natural, chemical free, biodegradable and affordable. Eco Diva creates products that contain no parabens, SLS, phthalates, dyes, chemicals, synthetic fragrances or preservatives, and uses sustainable practices in order to minimize their carbon footprint.
Email: [email protected]
"Natural Products for Natural Beauty"
All of the products used are thoroughly vetted for their ingredient content, pureness and efficacy. Poppy and Monroe has traveled the globe to find the newest innovations in green beauty and are committed to partnering with brands who set new standards for safety in personal care products.
Phone: 615-640-0604
Email: [email protected]
Thistle Farms's social enterprises employs residents and graduates of the residential program. They operate a natural bath and body product line, the Thistle Stop Cafe, the Studios Workshop and Thistle Farms Global Marketplace.
Phone: 615-298-1140
Email: [email protected]
Entertainment
City Square Solar Center, Hendersonville, TN
Home to Tennessee's Largest PV Solar System - 288 solar panel system (which covers 40% of the roof) offsets property’s energy costs by at least $22,850 annually. The city square has received 3 TN Clean Energy Technology grants and Federal Energy Investment Tax Credit, covering 70% of the installation costs.
Phone: 610-824-7290
Location: 260 West Main St, Hendersonville, TN
Live on the Green: Nashville’s Most Sustainable Music Festival
Features local and well-known artists in Nashville’s Public Square Park every August and September
Goal: completely waste free, carbon-neutral event; strive to shrink carbon footprint each year
Impermeable parking surfaces, LED lights, Green roof location to host event, captures 50,000 gallons of rainwater each year used to irrigate over 40 different species of plants
Eco-friendly requirements for food and drink vendors.
Email: [email protected]
Team Green Adventures is your source for new and creative ways to spend your free time, whether it’s an extreme adventure, leisurely hike, volunteer opportunity, or social gathering.
They hold monthly events that facilitate discovering new ways to appreciate our environment while providing opportunities to experience nature and fitness in educational and challenging ways.
Phone: 615-242-5600
Email: [email protected]
Food
Providing fresh, local, and whole foods to the community since 2001, The Turnip Truck is Nashville’s only full service, locally owned natural foods grocer with a full cold & hot salad bar!
East Nashville:
701 Woodland Street
Nashville TN 37206
Phone: 615-650-3600
The Gulch:
321 12th Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203
Phone: 615-248-2000
When: Tuesdays 3:30pm to 6:30pm,
Where: Sevier Park, 3000 Granny White Pike, Nashville, TN 37204
East Nashville Farmer’s Market
When: Wednesdays from 3:30pm to 7:00pm
Where: Shelby Park, 1500 Davidson Street, Nashville, TN 37206
Nashville Downtown Farmers Market
When: Monday- Sunday, 8am to 6pm, year-round
Where: 900 Rosa L. Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208
When: Saturdays from 9:30am - 12:30pm, May - Dec.
Where: Richland Park, 4701 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
When: Saturday,10am - Noon, year-round
Where: 4101 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205
When: Fridays 4pm - 7pm, May -Oct
Where: 2730 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
Green Door Gourmet is a unique farm to fork venture that produces and provides local artisan foods and plants in a farm-cooperative community setting.
They grow to 80 varieties of herbs and flowers, and a wide variety of fresh produce grown using natural methods which follow an organic holistic model.
Phone: 615-942-7169
Email: [email protected]
Location: 7011 River Road Pike, Nashville, TN 37209
As a resource of Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Pick Tennessee is a guide to connect people everywhere to Tennessee farms, farmers, farmers markets and all the great things that come from our farms and food businesses.
Produce Place: A Natural Food Grocery
The Produce Place is a locally owned natural food grocery store located in the heart of Sylvan Park. Opening July 15th, 1988 The Produce Place began its relationship with local farmers and produce growers providing fresh fruits and vegetables to the people of Nashville.
Phone: 615- 383-2664
Email: [email protected]
Greener Roots Farm is Nashville’s first commercial scale hydroponic vertical farm. We grow herbs and leafy greens indoors, year round and supply them to local establishments. All of our produce is pesticide, herbicide, and GMO free and travels less than 10 miles from farm to fork. We use 90% less land and water than conventional farming, resulting in a production that yields 10x more produce per square foot.
Phone: 615-957-6559
Email: [email protected]
Bringing people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Email: [email protected]
What YOU Can Do
Mobile guide to a healthy, active and green lifestyle in Nashville
provides interactive maps for walking, hiking, biking, water access, and other activities related to public infrastructure and parks
Tools towards a greener lifestyle, such as where to recycle or what incentives are available to be more energy efficient
The Cumberland River Compact works to improve water quality in the Cumberland River Basin, as well as quality of life in the surrounding communities. Their goals are to teach community members to understand the social, environmental, and economic importance of water, protect the water through healthy land practices, and connect local residents to recreational activities in and around the basin.
Phone: 615-837-1151
Home Energy Savings Program
Volunteers install improvements that decrease utility costs in homes: Average $390 savings per year!
Urban Agriculture Program
Learn about gardening skills, sustainable agriculture, healthy eating choices: 5 acre urban farm in South Nashville
Phone: 615-298-1108
Email: [email protected]
Walk Bike Nashville promotes active transportation and encourages Nashvillians to utilize the sidewalks and bikeways as a commuting option as well as recreational activity. They offer a variety of educational programs focused on safety and skills for alternative transportation in the city.
Phone: 615-928-8801
Email: [email protected]
Harpeth River Watershed Foundation
The foundation brings together volunteers, farmers, scientists, business leaders, city officials and more dedicated to preserving and restoring the ecological health of the Harpeth River and its Watershed. They are committed to rebuilding and maintaining the balance between the natural ecosystem and the human uses of the area.
Phone: 615-790-9767
Email: [email protected]
Sierra Club: Tennessee Chapter
The nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than two million members and supporters. They've helped pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and more! The Tennessee Chapter holds events and meetings to help keep our state clean and naturally beautiful.
Plant the Seed is a Nashville-area nonprofit providing education through garden-based learning to school children. They partner with schools in the most vulnerable neighborhoods in Nashville, in order to make school gardens sources of vitality in low-income areas. This helps increase food access and awareness for young people who may be food insecure, thus improving the health and wellbeing of students and families.
Email: [email protected]
Tennessee Environmental Council
Our Mission: Educating and advocating for the conservation and improvement of Tennessee’s environment, communities, and public health since 1970.
Phone: 615-248-6500
Email: [email protected]
At CNM, nonprofit board members, executives and staff have the opportunity to learn how to enhance their services through our comprehensive calendar of skill-building workshops and our annual Bridge to Excellence conference.
Phone: 615-259-0100