Nature’s Path is committed to producing products which support the development and sustenance of organic agriculture. We aim to do this in a way that minimizes our ecological footprint while striving to maintain social, environmental and financial integrity.

Here are just a few examples of what we're doing to help live up to these values:

Project Sunlight!

Besides saving electricity by installing skylights in our head office, most employees prefer natural light to fluorescent lights. It has been reported that there are less headaches, eyestrain, and flu symptoms when not exposed to artificial lighting for extensive periods of time each day. This allows most Nature's Pathers to work in a happier environment, while saving electricity!

Organic Biodiversity

One of the impacts of farming is that it has the power to protect and increase (or destroy) natural biodiversity of mammals, insects, microbiological lifeforms in the soil, and the genetic biodiversity of our plant species. One of the reasons why we have chosen organic because it protects biodiversity.

Recycle Line Spills for Use by Local Farmers

We donate all unusable spills from our manufacuring line to local farmers, thereby reducing our trips to landfill.

Composting of Employee Food Waste

We believe in reducing waste in as many ways as possible. To this end we have created a composting program for staff food waste in our Richmond office. We use this compost to fertilize our organic grain demonstration field on the side of our building. We plan on extending this program to all of our locations.

Computer and Equipment Recycling Program

With a quickly growing staff and efforts to keep-up technologically we want to increase our recycling of obsolete office equipment. Current we donate our old computers to employees for home use.

Organic Acres Used

Every time Nature's Path makes and sells an organic product land is kept under organic stewardship. When our product sales increase the organic acreage increases thereby saving more land from chemical contamination and unsustainable use.

Investing in Renewable Energy

We recognize two ways of addressing electrical power usage as a responsible sustainability company. One is to reduce the use, and the other is to use electricity that has been generated using environmentally friendly and renewable sources. To this end, 35% of the power from our Blaine facility comes from wind power.

Packaging Reduction Program

At Nature's Path we have always been concerned about our use of packaging. We offer bulk Eco-Pacs of most of our cereal and always use recycled cardboard. In order to further our commitment we have begun to resize our regular sized cereal boxes which will reduce the packaging by 10% without reducing product volume. We are also looking into biodegradable or compost-friendly "plastic" liners.

Carbon off-sets

We recently had our carbon foot-print measured by the folks at Eco Neutral  and have committed to off-setting a portion of our green house gas emissions through the work they do in repairing damaged eco-systems. Natural photosynthetic processes that occur in healthy ecosystems are currently the only viable way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.