Colorful fish swimming near coral reef underwater.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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Key West

Beachside Resort & Residences

Spacious Key West condos with private beach, marina, dining, and island adventures.

Weddings Max

600

Meetings Max

1075

Total Space

11500 sq ft

Largest Room

5675 sq ft

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.

Marathon

Bongos Botanical Beer Garden

Keep your eyes peeled at Mile Marker 59 on Grassy Key because Bongos Botanical Beer Garden is one of those places you could easily miss and never forgive yourself for. Opened in 2020 inside The Lagoon adventure park, this tropical beer garden is surrounded by mature palms, banana trees, and an organic herb and fruit garden growing the fresh ingredients that go straight into your cocktail, with over 20 craft beers on tap, a daily food truck, weekend brunch and live music, hammock chairs for swinging, lawn games, and a genuinely dog-friendly policy that extends to a plain beef patty for your pup.

The Lower Keys

Frayed Threads LLC

Frayed Threads LLC is a Key West women's boutique bringing the breezy sophistication of imported European linen to the Florida Keys — thoughtfully curated clothing, handpicked accessories, and beautiful shoes designed for women who want to look effortlessly elegant from the beach to brunch.

Key West

Captain Hook's Dive Key West

A NOAA Blue Star dive operator running two trips a day out to the Vandenberg, Sand Key Lighthouse and the reefs off Key West, with a divemaster in the water on every dive. Snorkelers get their own departures and all the gear, and no experience is required.

Key Largo

Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)

Explore ocean conservation with REEF's citizen science, education, and marine programs.

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.

Marathon

Dive Isla Bella

Explore vibrant Florida Keys reefs with Dive Isla Bella—adventure awaits underwater!

Key West

OverAchieving Tea

OverAchieving Tea is a premium handcrafted yerba maté and wellness shot brand crafting better-tasting, better-quality functional herbal blends, found at the Key West Artisan Market and local Florida Keys events.

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