It was at an all-you-can-eat French toast buffet of all places that Dan Blake realized he could start cutting back on the food waste he created. The light bulb went on, and through some quick research, Blake found that more than 30 million tons of food waste was being produced annually in the U.S. — enough to fit California’s Rose Bowl stadium every three days! In response, Blake co-founded EcoScraps to recycle food waste into all-natural organic garden products.

“You talk to most gardeners, and they’re still using synthetic products,” Blake says. “We thought, food is really high in nutrients, so we wanted to see if you composted straight food waste if you could get the same nutrients as you do with a synthetic [compost] bag. We came up with a compost where the nutrients were just as high or higher than any other chemical competitor that we could find.”

Green Mountain Energy offers up an eco-friendly home-power concept: Give consumers in the Northeast and Texas (and more regions to come) the option to choose 100% renewable energy for their home power needs. Tony Napolillo manages the company’s Sun Club, in which members pay a little more toward their monthly power bill in order to fuel nonprofits’ solar power projects in their communities. Through the generosity of Green Mountain customers, dozens of local solar projects have been completed.

“I want everyone in the nation to help put funds toward these solar projects to help nonprofits,” Napolillo says. “The beauty of the program is we’re helping nonprofits, but we’re also putting solar energy where folks can see it.”

With nearly 100,000 ground vehicles globally, and operating as the ninth largest airline in the world, UPS has an expansive fleet that is both logistically incredible and, as it turns out, increasingly green. Scott Wicker, UPS’ Chief Sustainability Officer, is on a mission to make both the ground and air fleets more efficient and environmentally friendly. UPS views its fleet as a “rolling laboratory” to test out the latest energy-saving technologies, alternative fuels and logistical eco-improvements.

“When we look at sustainability, it’s not something that we’re trying to bulk onto the organization,” Wicker explains. “It may sound a little cliché, but it truly is who we are and what we do. We’ve been around since 1907; making ourselves more efficient is one way we can bring more value to our customers, and we have been working on it for many years.”