Surfrider Vancouver Island has partnered with the Vancouver Island Green Businesses Certification (VIGBC) program to launch a campaign that links businesses to responsible actions that will help keep our local beaches and waterways clean.
Surfrider Ocean Friendly Businesses are certified for taking leadership in reducing their overall plastic footprint. The entire VIGBC certification, including a Surfrider Approved decal to be used for display, is $250/year and 10% of proceeds will go to the local Rise Above Plastics program, which reduces the impact of plastics in the marine environment.
Benefits of becoming a Surfrider Ocean Friendly Business
Approximately 90% of the waste found on local beaches during Surfriders’ regular beach clean ups are single-use plastics. Displaying a Surfrider ‘Ocean Friendly Business’ decal on your shop door signals to customers, other business owners and your community that your business is actively working towards reducing unnecessary single-use plastic waste in your establishment.
When you become a Surfrider Ocean Friendly Business, you will be recognized in the following ways:
Listed on our Surfrider Ocean Friendly Business page with a link to your website.
One social media post introducing your business as a certified SFVI Ocean Friendly Business on SFVI Facebook and Instagram accounts (~5000 active followers).
Be showcased at the beach cleanup attended by your business’ owners/managers/staff.
Complimentary entrance to SFVI exclusive events.
Advertising in our Monthly newsletter (approx. 1100 reached); listing on the Vancouver Island Green Business Collective directory.
To become SFVI Ocean Friendly Business certified, please contact
To see a current list of all the businesses who have been certified, click the button below. With over 125 businesses in the collective and growing fast, you can find hair salons, accounting firms, bicycle shops, great restaurants, local retailers and more!
What began as the Surfrider Approved Business program has now grown to become the most recognized business certification in the region, thanks to the powerful partnership between the Synergy Foundation and Surfrider Vancouver Island.
Approximately 90% of the waste found on local beaches during Surfriders’ regular beach clean ups are single-use plastics. Through this certification program, it signals to customers, other business owners and the community that the business is actively stewarding local beaches and waterways by reducing unnecessary single-use plastic waste.
Here’s our current list of Certified businesses as of Fall of 2019
2% Jazz Coffee Hillside
2% Jazz Coffee Hudson
Agrius
ANIAN
AURA Waterfront Restaurant + Patio
AXYS Technologies
Benson Seymour LLP Nanaimo
Benson Seymour LLP Cobble Hill
Big Wheel Burger Cook Street
Big Wheel Burger Gateway Village
Big Wheel BurgerVic West
Blue Toque
Canoe Brewpub
Cascadia Colwood
Cascadia Courtenay
Cascadia Eagle Creek
Cascadia Langford
Cascadia Nanoose Bay
Cascadia Quadra Village
Cascadia Uptown
Coastline Surf Shop
designHouse Salon Fernwood
designHouse Salon The Hudson
Dockside Physiotherapy
Downtown Victoria Business Association
Eagle Wing Tours
Ecologyst (formerly Sitka)
Fernwood Inn
Fin & Pearl- Whole Foods Market
Fish on 5th
Forester’s Bistro & Bar – Olympic View Golf Course
Fort Properties
Goldstream Bicycles
Habit Coffee Atrium
Habit Coffee Chinatown
Harvest Rd.
i.O.N Clothing
Indigenous Perspectives Society
Inspire Hair Design
Ironworks Cafe & Creperie
Metropol
Nezza Naturals
Orca Spirit Adventures
Oughtred Coffee and Tea
Pacific Rim College
Patagonia
Poke Fresh
Prisym Renewable Developments
Sequoia Coastal Coffee
Synergy Enterprises
Good Planet Company
The Livet
The Parkside Spa
The Truffles Group
The Very Good Butchers
The Village – Estevan
The Village – Royal Oak
The Village – Torquay
Vancity – Fort Street
VI Brewing
Victoria Distillers
Victoria Golf Club – Pro Shop
Vitoria International Marina (previously CMC)
Waymark Architecture
West Coast Refill
Westshore Bicycles – Formerly Oak Bay Bicycles Westshore
WestShore Chamber of Commerce
Whole Foods Market – Retail
WildPlay Element Parks
Woodshed Pizza
Yalla
Zambri’s
Zero Waste Emporium
The Natural
To become SFVI Ocean Friendly Business certified, please contact
