If you’ve been a busy bee recently, then what better time to launch or update your sustainability website than World Bee Day on May 20th!
Of course, bees go hand in hand, or you could say wing in wing, with sustainability—the world around us would be a scary place without them. They help plants grow, breed, and produce food, and therefore heavily contribute to biodiversity.
In the spirit of these brilliant little helpers, I explore 15+ of my favorite templates to build websites to promote your sustainable business, organization, or cause. However, even if you’re not officially in the field of sustainability, there are loads of things you can do to make sure your website is as sustainable as possible. Read on for some tips and tricks to have up your (green) sleeves!
Top 15+ Sustainability Website Themes for WordPress
1. Mellifera - Beekeeping and Honey Shop Theme
Seeing as we began our article talking about Backyard Honey’s Pollinator Partner Program, it wouldn’t bee right to not start with a honey-related WordPress template. It comes with three demos: main home, beekeeping home, and honey shop. Check out the demos to see cute little bees buzzing across the page.
2. Green Energy - For Renewable Company WordPress Theme
If you’re looking for a WordPress theme designed for renewable energy organizations and sustainable energy solution companies, you may have cracked it! Green Energy comes with five well-designed demos to give you an idea of what your new site could look like. It’s also WooCommerce-ready, meaning you can easily sell products and services through your site.
3. Greenly - Ecology & Solar Energy WordPress Theme
With eight homepage designs to choose from, there’s plenty of inspiration to guide your sustainability websites. The user-friendly design helps users find information quickly and easily, which in turns boosts your site’s green credentials!
Like many modern sustainability websites, it’s also designed for mobile responsiveness and has SEO-friendly features to help your site rank well in search engines.
4. Electra - Solar & Renewable Energy Theme
Scroll to explore this expertly-designed website, with plenty of custom blocks to break down more complex information. Pair copy with imagery in services blocks and check out the calls to action in the full-width header—users won’t miss them!
5. EarthCare - Ecology and Environment Theme
If you’re looking for donations, then EarthCare makes the process easy with the Give plugin. Users can also see how much money has been donated per project, with a handy percentage tally. There are useful pages like those created to introduce the volunteer team to boost the human element of your brand. There are plenty of stand-out templates designed for different sustainable initiatives, such as NGOs, activism, ecology, and volunteering.
6. R-energy - Solar and Renewable Energy WordPress Theme
Designed with green organizations such as solar, wind, electricity, and alternative energy, R-energy comes with three homepages, 36 templates, and 100+ blocks. It also comes with pre-built shop pages for your e-commerce and 100+ isometric and flat icons.
7. Energium | Alternative & Renewable Energy WordPress Theme
Enter Energium! This sustainability-focused WordPress theme launched in 2022 and has been updated regularly since. It’s been designed for alternative energy companies such as bio and hydro, as well as startups, recycling energy, and eco-friendly technologies. The six homepages are all modern and clean, opting for features such as stand-out stats, eye-catching iconography, and testimonials.
8. Solatec - Ecology & Solar Energy WordPress Theme
The future of energy is undeniably a major topic that will affect the future of the planet. This sustainability WordPress template does a good job of breaking up information into digestible chunks. Check out the statistics heroing key information, the iconography used to signpost services, the clear calls to action, and the map feature showing where customers are based.
9. Energia - Renewable Energy WordPress Theme
Have you produced video content to further tell your brand’s story or campaign objectives? This sustainability WordPress template is a useful one to have up your sleeve, with video integration included within the well-designed homepage. There are also useful features like a small arrow always visible at the bottom of the screen to help users navigate to the top of the site easily.
10. Eco Green - WordPress Theme for Environment and Renewable Energy Company
Published back in 2017, this sustainability WordPress template is regularly updated to ensure it has all the modern features you’d need to build your site. Take a look at the demo to see eye-catching animations and a useful gallery filled with tagged imagery so users can filter and find relevant content. There are also useful image overlays with ’donate now’ calls to action to encourage users to play their part in fundraising activities.
11. Energyland - Solar & Renewable Energy WordPress Theme
If you’re after a highly visual site and have plenty of imagery at your disposal, then this WordPress template may be for you! Users are greeted with a full-width header on the homepage with a scrolling slider to showcase new imagery, as well as video integration, an image-rich services section, and testimonials complete with headshots.
12. Breno - Green Energy WordPress Theme
This sustainability WordPress template is designed for a wide range of organizations, including recycling centers, non-profit organizations, waste management companies, and alternative energy and ecological projects.
Like many of the latest WordPress sustainability websites, it’s also designed to be lightning-fast, seamlessly reactive, and SEO friendly. The WooCommerce template comes with a blog, multiple galleries, unlimited color schemes, a Revolution slider, and team pages.
13. Eco Recycling - Ecology & Nature WordPress Theme
The Eco Recycling theme comes with eight demos, including Fullscreen, Transparent Menu, and Rainy. The Rainy theme, for example, opts for animated raindrops across the full-width header, giving a natural effect. Sliders are also used to showcase logos of the companies the organization supports.
14. Naturally - Organic Shop WordPress WooCommerce
If your sustainable business specializes in organic food, natural products, organic agriculture, fisheries, or any other natural products, then Naturally may be the WordPress template for you! It comes with nine bright and colorful demos, all sleek, modern, and sophisticated in style. New features also include a megamenu to help users find the products they’re looking for quickly and easily.
15. Appleton
If you’re after free sustainability WordPress templates, then Appleton could be right for you! The design is image-focused, meaning you have plenty of space to add content related to your sustainable products or services. Like the premium WordPress templates, you can edit the header, footer, page content, and layout of your site.
16. Adventurer
And last but not least, we have another free WordPress template for you! Rather than introducing photography or videography, Adventurer opts for text only on the homepage—one way to make your website more sustainable by cutting download time! The bold font is difficult to miss too, so a good option for those looking to do things their own way.
Why We’re Buzzing About World Bee Day
Envato is committed to minimizing the negative environmental impact that the business has on the planet. Our Greener Good Sustainability Committee is always instilling more sustainable habits within our organization, including recycling E-waste and single-use coffee cups, investing in sustainable merchandising and tree planting, as well as offsetting our carbon footprint and enabling Envato to go carbon neutral.
Last year, in partnership with Australia’s Backyard Honey’s Pollinator Partner Program, we began sponsoring beehives to repopulate local bee populations and support local ecosystems.
Based in Burnley, Victoria, Backyard Honey helps businesses and individuals engage in positive environmental action by enhancing local biodiversity, and saving bees that would otherwise have been exterminated through the agricultural process of farming food.
How To Make a Website Sustainable
Whether you’re in the field of sustainability or not, there are plenty of things you can do to make sure your website is as kind to the planet as possible.
- Optimize images: Although large images can look eye-catching, downloading them can also come at a cost energy-wise. Consider whether every image is needed and reduce their resolution and size as much as possible.
- Nail your navigation: A large, difficult-to-navigate site will not only be annoying for users, it also increases the time they will need to spend searching for relevant information. Bad for the user experience, and the environment!
- Don’t be afraid to delete: It can be healthy to do a good clear out from time to time—and the same is true for the virtual world! Delete any unwanted media, categories and tags, broken links, out-of-date videos, and spam comments.
Over to You!
Now you’ve seen the top 15+ sustainability WordPress templates, it’s time to let your ideas bloom! You can either pick your favorite template in the list above or head on over to ThemeForest for the full selection.
