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Sustainable Workplace Ecostar Award - Finalist
This annual event honors environmental leadership on Vancouver Island, BC. The Sustainable Workplace award recognizes organizations with strong environmental and social policies. This year, Harmonic Arts was proud to be a finalist! We've embraced mission-driven policies, seeing their positive impact on our business and team.
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Sustainable Packaging Innovations
We introduced biodegradable packaging for our Herbal Lattes and reduced waste by implementing reusable alternatives. This achievement was a true team effort, with our staff testing and refining innovative solutions. By embracing sustainability, we’ve minimized our footprint and reinforced our commitment to plant medicine with purpose.
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Green (Friday) is the new Black (Friday)
This year, we introduced Green Friday, an initiative to donate 1% of profits to a non-profit as a mission-aligned alternative to Black Friday. We felt this approach better reflected our values and those of our customers. Thanks to these sales, we proudly donated $1,068 to Trans Canada Trail, supporting their efforts to connect and protect natural spaces across the country.
Our Products
Non-Toxic Ingredients
To ensure that we are offering products that are non-toxic to our customers and the environment, we rely on third-party testing and certificates of analysis.
This fiscal year, 79.12% of the products we sold met organic certification standards.
This means that these ingredients have been tested against a rigorous standard that ensures food is grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, fossil-fuel based fertilizers, and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
To ethically sustain our production level, Harmonic Arts works with various vendors from herb brokerages to small farmers worldwide. This allows us to prioritize organic herbs whenever possible, and to consistently make effective formulas that contain high-quality herbs, mushrooms, and superfoods.
Our Products
Environmentally-Conscious Packaging
This calendar year, our core value of Sustainable Action really showed up in how we made decisions about our packaging. We did a deep review of our product and operational packaging, and considered how we might reduce the environmental footprint of this aspect of our business. This process was creative and experimental, and led us to these accomplishments:
Activities & Outcomes
Activities & Outcomes
- Our Operations team replaced single-use pallet wrap in our manufacturing facility with a reusable alternative for 99% of our operations.
- We updated our Herbal Latte packaging to reduce the amount of material used. This decision was more cost-efficient and less carbon-intensive, lowering the amount of greenhouse gas emissions per shipment!
- We modified our product offering with intention and have diverted 72,238 lbs of single-use packaging waste as a result.
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Measuring Our Carbon Footprint
At Harmonic Arts, we track our Scope 1-3 carbon emissions annually, measuring our own operations and supply chain impact. This helps us take responsibility for our environmental footprint and assess the effectiveness of our carbon reduction efforts. One key initiative is using low-emission shipping methods, like sea or ground freight, for all product inputs. This fiscal year, we reduced our carbon footprint by 6% compared to 2023.
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Carbon Neutral Shipping
This fiscal year we offered carbon neutral shipping to our customers by partnering with a verified carbon credit provider. Carbon credits fund vetted environmental projects that remove or avoid the release of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Thanks to our customers, we mitigated emissions that would have contributed to climate change and we supported the development of green initiatives.
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Scope 1:
Direct Emissions
Heat Generated (Onsite)
23.96 tCO2e
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Scope 2:
Indirect Emissions
Emissions from Electricity
2.59 tCO2E
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Scope 3:
Transportation Emissions
Moving People and Goods
228.54 tCO2e
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Total
Carbon Footprint
Fiscal Year 2024
= 255.10 tCO2e
(271.33 in 2023)
Community Engagement
Collective Action for Collective Health
Alongside other member businesses of the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA), Harmonic Arts continued our participation in the Save Our Supplements campaign. This initiative started two years ago, in response to changes the federal government made in relation to increased regulation around certain health foods. These changes would have detrimental outcomes to the natural health product industry, such as removing access to some products and increasing the prices of others. This campaign asks the Minister of Health to engage with businesses in this industry to ensure these regulations best serve Canadians.
Community Engagement
Our Giving Footprint
In the 2024 fiscal year, Harmonic Arts contributed an impressive $12,627.96 to social and environmental causes, bringing our total impact-driven donations to over $81,500 to date. A highlight was our Green Friday campaign, where we donated 1% of sales to the Trans Canada Trail, supporting connections between people and nature. Locally, we continued our partnership with the Cumberland Community Forest Society. Our team also collaboratively chose four organizations focused on aiding vulnerable populations.
Organizations We Supported This Year
Organizations We Supported This Year
- Trans Canada Trail - The longest trail system in the world
- Cumberland Community Forest Society - A champion of land conservation and ecological stewardship
- Appalachian Herb Collective - Grassroots effort in response to Hurricane Helene
- Canadian Red Cross – Responding to Alberta Wildfires
- Comox Valley Senior Support Society - Helps older adults who are experiencing isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability
- Penny Appeal Canada – Gaza Emergency Response
Community Engagement
Cultivating Community Through Service
At Harmonic Arts, we believe in the power of volunteering in one’s community as a means to create positive change and build connection. Our Community Service Volunteer Policy empowers our team members to dedicate 8 paid hours annually to causes that align with our mission. In the past year, some of our team members have embraced this opportunity. For example, we had one employee volunteer at the local Senior Support Society in Courtenay, BC. Another team member serves as a volunteer board member for the Strathcona Wilderness Institute. This non-profit’s vision is to inspire appreciation and stewardship of the natural world.
Our Customers
Product Development Philosophy
When we are developing new products or reviewing existing ones, we use two perspectives as our guideposts.
We deeply honor the intricate connection between human health and the environment.
We deeply honor the intricate connection between human health and the environment.
Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that nurturing our planet is essential to nurturing ourselves. This ethos guides the ingredients we choose to source and the products we develop.
We actively engage with our customers to understand their health concerns, aspirations, and needs.
We actively engage with our customers to understand their health concerns, aspirations, and needs.
This dialogue allows us to develop products that truly resonate with those we serve.
Our Customers
What We Deliver
Harmonic Arts creates high-quality, nature-inspired products that support holistic well-being. With trusted ingredients, certified standards, and a commitment to excellence, we deliver products our customers love.
Ingredients sourced from nature
Ingredients sourced from nature
By choosing ingredients that come directly from nature, we create products that work in harmony with the body's natural processes, supporting holistic health and vitality.
Certified health outcomes
Certified health outcomes
57.59% of our products have registered Natural Product Numbers (NPNs). This means these products have been reviewed and approved by Health Canada, demonstrating our dedication to providing natural solutions that meet rigorous standards for safety and effectiveness.
High quality products
High quality products
Our internal quality assurance process, coupled with third-party testing, ensures that every product we offer meets our shared expectations for purity and potency.
Products our customers love
Products our customers love
Harmonic Arts is proud to have an average product rating of 4.8/5 and a customer satisfaction score of 75/100.
Supply Chain Partners
Building Ethical & Sustainable Partnerships
Our annual deep-dive into our supply chain relationships and outcomes shows that our purchasing decisions are increasingly aligned with our values. We believe this demonstrates the power of intentional relationship-building and engagement.
At the heart of our supply chain strategy lies our Supplier Purchasing policy and Supplier Code of Conduct. These policies helps us vet potential supply chain partners against social and environmental criteria. Through this process, we are able to better match with suppliers that reflect our values, thus creating a positive ripple effect of sustainable practices beyond our immediate operations.
What Our Purchasing Policy Screens for:
- Third-party impact certifications, such as Certified Organic or Fair-Trade ingredients
- Locally and independently-owned businesses
- Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC)-owned businesses
What Our Code of Conduct Requires of Suppliers:
- Compliance with best practices for fair labour, including fair compensation and safe working conditions
- Compliance with applicable environmental laws
- Respect for animal welfare
- Traceability, responsibility, and transparency of product contents
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A Diverse & Inclusive Team
Diversity survey results: 63% of our team self-identified as female or non-binary, 28% self-identified as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Colour), and 19% self-identified as having a disability
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Strong Engagement & Satisfaction
Employee Feedback survey: 4.03/5 on Satisfaction; 8.19/10 on engagement
Verified Impact
We are a Certified B Corporation!
B Corp certification is a rigorous third-party assessment of a company’s social and environmental impact across governance, workers, community, environment, and customers. Businesses must score at least 80 points on the B Impact Assessment to qualify. We value B Corp as a holistic measure of a company’s overall impact, not just individual products or processes.
Harmonic Arts has proudly been B Corp certified since 2023.
1% for the Planet Membership
Harmonic Arts is a part of a global movement of conscious consumers and businesses that have collectively donated over $450 million to environmental causes. Our Artisan Teas and Herbal Lattes are both 1% for the Planet certified, meaning we donate 1% of their sales to vetted, values-aligned environmental organizations. Within this past fiscal year, we donated $12,627.96 to environmental causes through this commitment.
