Frontier has a tradition of sustainability in both our own actions and our support of other organizations. We have established an employee-friendly workplace, respected the environment and the grower communities in our operational decisions, and championed organics and sustainable agriculture throughout the world.

Frontier is a past winner of the Socially Responsible Business Award presented at the Natural Products EXPO. The award was based on outstanding performance in six categories, including community involvement, education, health, employee empowerment, environmental awareness and responsible purchasing.

We maintain a variety of responsible programs in our everyday business—like using recycled paper in our printed materials, recycling cardboard and other materials from our operations, and maintaining a re-established tallgrass prairie at our Norway site.

We have led the industry in developing sustainable cultivation methods for medicinal herbs that had their native populations threatened by wildcrafting—from a project that increased cultivated sources for goldenseal to the creation of a major herb research center.

An ongoing area of emphasis for Frontier is the sourcing of sustainably produced products. We carry a wide selection of Fair Trade Certified™ products and have our own sustainability certification program, Well Earth.

One of our recent product intitiatives was finding a sustainable source of sandalwood essential oil as pressures mount on India sandalwood production. To see our report on—and solution to—that problem, click here (473K pdf).

And we give back 1% of the sales of our all-organic spice brand, Simply Organic, to the support of organic farming causes.

Efforts like these, along with our contributions to a wide range of social and environmental organizations, reflect Frontier's commitment to conduct business in a way that positively affects the world around us and lets our customers feel good about supporting us.

For a complete review of Frontier's sustainability programs, see our 2007 Sustainability Report.

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Frontier is a proud member of Co-op America, listed in their green pages directory of socially and environmentally responsible businesses. Co-op America's mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, businesses and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Believing that the economic sector dominates public and private life, Co-op America feels we must change the way we do business in order to foster a society that respects people and the planet.

The organization works with consumers, investors, business owners and workers to promote socially and environmentally responsible change through a variety of programs. These programs include support for green business, fair trade and fair labor practices, conservation, and responsible investment. To learn more about Co-op America, visit their website at www.co-opamerica.org.