Community-based manufacturing and production

"optionsforlife cleaning products are fine products. Not only are they safe for people and safer for the planet, they work. In independent test after test, they are among the top performing green products on the market. Test them yourself!

But the real "optionsforlife" innovation is the company’s business model.

Having traveled the world as an advocacy consultant for the United Nations, I came face to face, in country after country, with widespread material poverty. Poverty, for example, that significantly lowers the chances of women having successful pregnancies. And poverty that dramatically shortens the lives of the children they do deliver.

The mission of Options for Life is to reduce poverty. Our strategy is simple: bring the production of goods back into the community.

Our primary challenge is to do so in a profitable [for everyone involved] and sustainable way.

I used to think industrial or commercial globalization was a good thing. And, it may still not be altogether bad. But the benefits that were supposed to accrue to multinational company shareholders, their customers and the countries they operate in have yet to materialize.

The backbone of the US economy and the economy of most developed economies is strong small to medium-sized local businesses. They employ most of the people and they and the people they employ pay most of the taxes. It’s small to medium-sized businesses that our company wants to help proliferate, both in the United States and abroad."

Walter Coddington
Founder
Options for Life, LLC