Green Businesses
Choose Businesses That Care for the Keys
The natural beauty of the Florida Keys is part of what makes being here so special. Across the island chain, local businesses are taking steps to conserve natural resources, reduce waste and help protect the waters and ecosystems around them.
You can be part of that effort. Use the listings below to find accommodations, restaurants, marinas, dive operators, fishing guides and other businesses recognized for environmentally responsible practices.
Find Green Businesses in the Florida Keys
Ready to make your trip a little greener? Browse the businesses below and use the filters to find participating places to stay, eat, dock, dive, and fish.
Green Lodging
Rest easy knowing your stay can make a difference. Florida Green Lodging properties are recognized for efforts to conserve resources such as water and energy and reduce waste. Look for the Green Lodging leaf when choosing where to stay in the Keys.
Blue Star Operators
Heading out on or under the water? Choose a Blue Star-certified dive operator or fishing guide. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s Blue Star program recognizes operators that help visitors enjoy diving, snorkeling and fishing while following practices that safeguard the Keys’ marine resources.
Clean Marinas
A day on the water starts at the dock. Clean Marina businesses help make environmentally responsible boating part of the Florida Keys experience. Use the listings below to find participating marinas throughout the island chain.
Ocean Friendly Restaurants
Make your next meal a little friendlier to the ocean. Ocean Friendly Restaurants are recognized for making choices designed to reduce waste and support healthier oceans.
Skip the Stuff
Sometimes less really is more. Restaurants and food trucks participating in Skip the Stuff help reduce single-use waste by providing items such as plastic utensils, straws and condiment packets only when customers ask for them.
Visitors can help, too. Simply say “no thanks” to the extras you don’t need.
Plastic Free Key West
Plastic Free Key West celebrates Key West businesses taking action to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, single-use plastics. Participating businesses make voluntary commitments to reduce plastic use through more sustainable choices.
Protect Our Seagrass
Seagrass beds are part of what makes Florida Keys waters so special. They also need a little help from boaters. Propellers can damage shallow seagrass beds, leaving scars behind. Check tide and navigational charts before you head out, and steer clear of shallow areas. A handy local reminder is: “Brown, brown, run aground. Blue, blue, sail on through."
Filters
Marathon
Captain Hook’s Marina and Dive Center
A Blue Star dive shop and marina at mile marker 53 on Vaca Cut, running reef and wreck trips twice a day, plus snorkeling, sunset cruises, boat rentals and a bait and tackle counter. They will also put you on a coral nursery dive with Mote Marine Lab, which is not something most dive shops can offer.
Key West
Viv Wine Bistro
Wahoo’s Bar and Grill in Islamorada serves fresh local seafood, tropical cocktails, and stunning oceanfront views in a laid-back Florida Keys setting.
Key West
Amri Day Spa, Salon & Boutique
Amri Key West — ethical & sustainable day spa, salon & boutique in the heart of historic Key West.
Marathon
Marathon Yacht Club
Exclusive waterfront community with boating, dining, and social events.
Key West
Silver Tide Charters
Silver Tide Charters, led by Captain Bryson Shaaber, offers professional flats and backcountry fishing trips in the Florida Keys. Utilizing a Pathfinder 2500 Hybrid Bay Boat equipped with top-tier technology, Captain Bryson provides an unforgettable fishing experience.
Islamorada
Plantation Yacht Harbor Marina
Plantation Yacht Harbor Marina: A full‑service, top‑tier marina in Islamorada’s Founders Park — safe slips, fuel, and amenities for the boating life in the Florida Keys.
Key West
Compass Rose Charters
Key West Florida Fishing provides personalized fishing charters targeting species like tarpon, bonefish, permit, snapper, and grouper.
Key West
Garlic Grater with Love
Garlic Grater with Love is a 14-year-old artisan brand crafting distinctive handmade ceramic garlic grater bowls and eco-friendly scrubbie sponges, found at the Key West Artisan Market at Higgs Beach and available online for those who want to bring a piece of handmade artistry home from the Keys.
The Lower Keys
Looe Key Reef Resort & Dive Center
Looe Key Reef Resort offers beachfront accommodations, daily scuba and snorkeling trips, a full-service dive shop, and a Tiki Bar with live entertainment in the Florida Keys.
Key West
Argo Navis Key West Sailing Charters
Argo Navis is a 75-foot luxury catamaran offering intimate, all-inclusive sailing experiences in Key West, including sunset cruises, brunch sails, and private charters, with curated food and drink pairings.
Key West
Purple Heron Charters
Purple Heron Charters offers private flats, backcountry, and eco-tour fishing charters out of Key West with Captain John Hoover, specializing in fly fishing, spin fishing, and sight fishing for a wide variety of inshore species.
Marathon
Tilden's Scuba Center
Tilden's Scuba Center is Marathon's full-service dive shop, sending divers and snorkelers out to the reefs and wrecks of the Middle Keys every day. Aboard the Miss Jackie you can explore a 188-foot wreck, try SNUBA, or earn your first certification, with a full gear shop and air fills waiting back on shore.
Key Largo
Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)
Explore ocean conservation with REEF's citizen science, education, and marine programs.
Islamorada
First Choice Charters
First Choice Charters offers private, all-inclusive fishing trips in Islamorada Florida Keys.
