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Bingenheimer Saatgut is a German seed company that sells only open-pollinated, organically grown seed of vegetables, herbs and flowers, to home gardeners and market gardeners. Plants from this seed…
Alternative to seeds from agrochemical groups, bred for industrial farming and sold as hybrids
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ARCHE NOAH is an Austrian association that preserves old and rare varieties of vegetables, fruit and grain, and sells organic seeds and plants of them so that gardeners can grow them and save their…
Alternative to hybrid seeds from the big seed groups that can’t be saved and resown
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Kokopelli is a French association that sells organic and biodynamic seeds of open-pollinated varieties: more than 2,000 varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers, many of them old varieties no…
Alternative to F1 hybrid seeds from large seed companies, which cannot be saved and resown
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VLC is a free, open-source media player that plays almost every video and audio file, DVDs and online streams without extra codec packs, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and more. It is an…
Alternative to paid video players and codec packs full of adware
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Dreschflegel is a German group of small organic farms that grow, breed and sell open-pollinated seed of more than 800 vegetables, herbs and flowers, without hybrids or genetic engineering.
Alternative to hybrid vegetable seeds that must be bought again every year
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Goldeimer is a Hamburg social enterprise that sells recycled toilet paper with the Blauer Engel label and compost toilets for gardens, allotments and camper vans, and puts its profits into sanitation…
Alternative to toilet paper from big paper groups and to chemical camping toilets
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Ethiquable is a French worker cooperative (Scop) from Fleurance, in the Gers, that sells organic fair trade food: chocolate, coffee, tea, juice, rice, sugar, spices and snacks, bought from…
Alternative to supermarket coffee, chocolate and juice from multinational brands
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Fairphone is a Dutch company from Amsterdam that makes smartphones built to be repaired and kept for years, with a larger share of fairly sourced materials. The battery, screen, cameras, USB-C port…
Alternative to smartphones that are glued shut, get few years of updates and are replaced every two or three years
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GEPA – The Fair Trade Company is a German fair trade importer founded in 1975 and based in Wuppertal. It sells coffee, tea, chocolate, honey, cocoa, sugar, spreads and handicrafts bought from…
Alternative to conventional coffee, tea and chocolate brands that pay growers prices below the cost of living
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GIMP is a free, open-source photo editor and image creation program for Windows, macOS and Linux. It crops, corrects colours, cuts out shapes, works with layers and masks, paints and draws.
Alternative to Adobe Photoshop and its monthly subscription
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KeePassXC is a free, open-source password manager for Windows, macOS and Linux. It keeps logins, passwords, passkeys and notes in an encrypted file, in the common KeePass (KDBX) format, opened with a…
Alternative to cloud password managers such as LastPass, 1Password or Dashlane
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Lamazuna is a French brand of zero-waste bathroom products: solid shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and toothpastes, washable make-up remover wipes, rechargeable toothbrushes and menstrual cups. It…
Alternative to cosmetics in plastic bottles, disposable cotton pads and single-use razors
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LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite with a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), presentations (Impress), drawing (Draw), a database (Base) and a formula editor (Math). It…
Alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, with their subscriptions and data collection
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Sonett is a German maker of ecological washing and cleaning products, founded in 1977 near Lake Constance: laundry detergents, washing-up liquid, cleaners and soaps based on plant soaps, sugar…
Alternative to conventional detergents and cleaners from large chemical groups, with petroleum-based ingredients and single-use bottles
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Dr. Hauschka is a range of certified natural cosmetics made by WALA, a foundation-owned company in Bad Boll-Eckwälden in Swabia that grows many of its medicinal plants in its own biodynamic garden.
Alternative to conventional skin care from L’Oréal, Beiersdorf and other cosmetics groups
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Grünspecht is a family company in Bavaria that has made natural baby and family products since 1994, such as cherry-stone pillows, natural rubber teething rings, organic cotton and wool care, mostly…
Alternative to conventional baby care products and plastic baby accessories
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Kaffee-Kooperative is a Berlin company that sells Fairtrade coffee from Rwanda roasted and packed in Kigali, by a roastery owned by Rwandan coffee cooperatives, so that more of the price stays in the…
Alternative to coffee roasted in Europe, where most of the value of the beans stays
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Ostheimer makes wooden toy figures and animals by hand in Zell unter Aichelberg near Stuttgart, from wood from Central European forests, painted and dipped in oil, and is owned by a non-profit…
Alternative to plastic toys and figures made far away
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Quartiermeister is a Berlin beer brand owned by a non-profit foundation: its profits go to neighbourhood projects, chosen by public vote in the cities where the beer is drunk.
Alternative to beer from big brewing groups such as AB InBev, Heineken or Radeberger
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Terra Etica, long known as Café Michel, is a worker cooperative (SCOP) in Pessac near Bordeaux that roasts organic, fair-trade coffee and sells tea, chocolate and sugar bought from small farmers’…
Alternative to supermarket coffee brands such as Carte Noire, L’Or or Jacques Vabre
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1083 is a French brand of jeans, jackets and sneakers made in France, based in Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme. Its name is the distance in kilometres between the two towns of mainland France that lie…
Alternative to fast-fashion jeans and sneakers made far away under poor working conditions
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Medito is a free meditation app for iPhone and Android with no ads, trial period or premium tier, published by Stichting Medito, a non-profit foundation registered in Amsterdam in 2020. It is an…
Alternative to paid meditation apps such as Headspace or Calm
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TEAM 7 is an Austrian maker of solid wood furniture, from tables and beds to wardrobes and kitchens, made to order in Upper Austria from European hardwoods glued without formaldehyde and finished…
Alternative to flat-pack chipboard furniture that rarely survives a second move
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VAUDE is a family-owned German maker of outdoor clothing, backpacks, tents and bike bags, based at Obereisenbach near Lake Constance. It is known for its environmental work: PFAS-free products…
Alternative to outdoor brands that use toxic chemicals and make gear that is hard to repair
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Weleda is a Swiss maker of natural cosmetics and anthroposophic medicines, founded in 1921, with its head office in Arlesheim near Basel and its largest site at Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany. Its…
Alternative to conventional cosmetics with mineral oils, silicones and synthetic fragrances
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Cafédirect is a British Fairtrade coffee company founded in 1991 by Oxfam, Traidcraft, Equal Exchange and Twin Trading, with two coffee producers on its board and a certified B Corp since 2018.
Alternative to Nescafé, Kenco and other coffee from multinational groups
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einhorn is a Berlin company that sells vegan condoms made from traceable natural rubber, and period products such as tampons and a menstrual cup, with no outside investors and in steward ownership.
Alternative to condoms and period products from Durex, o.b. and other consumer-goods groups
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Frosch is a range of household cleaners, washing-up liquids and laundry products from Werner & Mertz, a family company in Mainz, whose bottles are made from plastic collected in household recycling…
Alternative to cleaning products from Procter & Gamble, Henkel and Reckitt
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Grüne Erde is an Austrian maker of natural mattresses, beds and wood furniture, with home textiles and cosmetics. Its mattresses are made by hand in Upper Austria from wool, natural latex, coconut…
Alternative to foam mattresses and furniture in chipboard and synthetic glue
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L’Arbre Vert is a French brand of washing-up liquids, laundry detergents, household cleaners and toiletries sold in supermarkets, most of them certified with the EU Ecolabel and made in France.
Alternative to conventional cleaning products and toiletries from big consumer-goods groups
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Lemonaid is a Hamburg brand of organic, Fairtrade-certified lemonades that gives 5 cents from every bottle sold to its own charity, Lemonaid & ChariTea e.V., which funds projects in the countries…
Alternative to Coca-Cola, Fanta and other soft drinks from global beverage groups
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Speick is a family-owned natural cosmetics maker near Stuttgart, best known for its soaps and shaving products, whose whole range contains an extract of the Speick plant hand-picked in the Austrian…
Alternative to conventional soap, shaving cream and deodorant from Nivea, Gillette and other big brands
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Vilac is a French wooden-toy maker in Moirans-en-Montagne, in the Jura, that has turned, sanded, lacquered and decorated toys in its own workshop since 1911, using beech, hornbeam, alder and box from…
Alternative to plastic toys from global toy groups
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Viva con Agua is a Hamburg charity for drinking water and sanitation that also has its own mineral water brand, sold in German supermarkets, whose licence fees and profits fund its projects.
Alternative to mineral water brands owned by food multinationals
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Yarrah is a Dutch brand of organic dog and cat food, made with certified organic ingredients, including vegetarian and vegan food for dogs.
Alternative to industrial pet food from multinationals such as Mars and Nestlé Purina
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The Renault 5 E-Tech is a small electric car built at Douai in northern France since October 2024, with a range of 300 or 410 km depending on the battery. For households that can’t do without a car…
Alternative to petrol and diesel cars, and large electric SUVs imported from China or the United States
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Pickawood is a German online shop for made-to-measure furniture: tables, shelves, sideboards, wardrobes and beds configured on the website to the centimetre, in solid wood or in panels, and built by…
Alternative to standard-size flat-pack furniture that doesn’t fit the room
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