Exploring Audi City Guide LA in an All Electric Audi e-tron

• Sami Miro is a conscious designer and founder of Sami Miro Vintage. Her fashion label  makes clothing that encourages people to express themselves in a more environmentally-responsible, sustainable way. Produced locally in Los Angeles to keep a smaller carbon footprint.
• Ron Finley is the CEO and founder of The Ron Finley Project. He believes “if you heal your mother, you heal yourself.” His organization is dedicated to changing the composition of the soil in underserved neighborhoods around the world. As a gardener, artist, educator, designer, activist and father, his mission is to educate and foster respect for soil. Healthy soil can heal a community by making the air more breathable.
• Amanda Chantal Bacon is the founder and CEO of Moon Juice, a beauty and wellness brand specializing in food, supplements, and skin-care products. She is a champion of reusable packaging, organic American farming, and sustainable ingredients. Her business practices mirror her personal principles. She is focused on addressing unmet health needs in her community. She has three popular cafés on Melrose, in Venice and Silver Lake.
• Industry of All Nations, the Gersovich brothers moved from Argentina to Los Angeles, to thoughtfully design products that put a premium on transparency at every step of their supply chain. Founded as a fashion wholesaler over a decade ago, Industry of All Nations collaborates with makers across Guatemala, India, Bolivia, Mexico, Indonesia, Ethiopia and beyond—prioritizing indigenous economic consideration every step of the way.

The businesses I visited on the Los Angeles Audi City Guides include:

• Beverly Hills Juice serving raw, nutritious juices to the Los Angeles community, prioritizing an environmentally-conscious approach.
• Compton Community Garden serves a multi-faceted purpose bringing hope, food and restoration to a neighborhood on South Long Beach Blvd. It’s direct result is a healthier, cleaner and safer neighborhood.
• Dudley’s Market welcomes back the “good old days in Venice” serving sustainable seafood, local produce and natural wines.
• Cafe Gratitude by Executive Chef Seizan Dreux Ellis offers a vegan and vegetarian menu, with ingredients created with local ingredients from local producers and farmers. These suppliers use soil-building practices and sustainable farming techniques. The seasonal Café Gratitude’s menu’s healthy options include flatbread pizzas, salads, tofu wraps, black bean burgers, and juices.
• Galerie.LA founder and stylist, Dechel McKillian shop is filled with clothing, beauty products, and lifestyle goods, made by local brands and crafted with sustainability in mind. Noticing a gap between sustainable fashion and her work in the celebrity and lifestyle worlds, Dechel brings socially-conscious fashion to everyone in her showroom and online from breezy dresses and flattering jumpsuits to body products, lip gloss and roller perfume.
• Hail Mary Pizza is committed to community. They support small farmers directly, to have a relationship with those who grow food and connect with the source. This provides more money for the farmers, plus this restaurant knows how the ingredients are grown, raised and harvested.
• Hot and Cool Cafe is a local black-owned and family-operated coffee shop in the heart of Leimert Park Village.
• Outerknown raises the standard for sustainable design by choosing the most responsible path.
• Recontained offers healthy everyday products and consumables in a refillable format. The products are mindfully sourced and cruelty free and include home cleaning products, skincare, pet products and more. Their mission is to provide Los Angeles locals with a simple alternative to buying and utilizing single-use plastic containers, which the shop warns are overwhelming the globe’s oceans and waterways. Their goal is to create a happier, healthier planet.
• re_grocery was born, because the grocery industry has made it impossible to avoid plastic packaging and waste, so re grocery was determined to change that. They say no to plastic altogether, by carrying over 500 refillable bulk goods. They source only the highest quality organic, non-GMO and clean products, all plastic-free, andstock reusables and zero-waste accessories. Just bring your own empty/clean/dry containers from home. They have 100% post-consumer recycled paper bags or reusable glass jars/bottles for purchase.
• Sage Plant-Based Bistro serves the highest quality, locally sourced produce by working with local regenerative farmers who deliver organic, pesticide-free produce daily.
• Suay LA creates Suay Sew Shop products that are created from a combination of post-consumer waste, deadstock, and domestic, organically, grown fibers. They produce a diverse range of ethically made crafted products remade in Los Angeles, California. Cultivating upcycling as a priority will not only massively impact the planet, but also one’s daily quality of life.
  

  Sustain LA

• Sustain LA is an eco-conscious refill station for household cleaners, body care products, and offers plastic-free alternatives to everyday household goods. Refill your existing containers with locally-sourced, more sustainable products, which helps reduce plastic containers. Top priority goes to products created by BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals and women. Sustain LA’s mission is to change human consumption and restore the natural balance of the planet. Sustain LA offers affordable and reusable dishware rentals for small events and consults with various brands on sustainable practices.
• The Well Refill is a low waste essential business offering over 80 refillable products. Just bring in your own clean bottle or jar (even an old plastic container) and they will refill it.

Driving an Audi e-tron and supporting these sustainable and eco-friendly people and businesses will help reduce your carbon footprint and eliminate harmful toxins and plastics polluting our world.