the pi principle of green

Sustainable, eco-friendly, or “green” aspects starts with our early selection of suppliers, raw material options based on CO2 output values, and the potential for recycling—one reason why there’s no plastic on a Pi and very little rubber.

The principal of “smaller (and lighter transportation) is better” includes the scrutiny of everything from source materials, to manufacturing, to manufacturing by-product and inter-vendor transportation.

Trading one environmental problem for another just isn’t good design, so from the outset the integration of corresponding technologies that balance environmental ethos with functional reality.

Pi is produced by California-based manufacturers and, whenever possible, materials produced within California borders. While California-based manufacturing is more costly due to the State’s highly stringent environmental controls, what better place then to produce and ecologically founded product? And because Pi supports the California’s effort to minimize the environmental impact of manufacturing, Pi production will for the foreseeable future remain within state boundaries.

In spite of the dismantling of the Zero Emissions Vehicle Mandate and, as an early “Calstart Incubator” participant, which founder Marcus Hayes worked for years to support, Pi remains committed to supporting the Statersquo;s regulatory environment which directly and indirectly helps to ensure that every Pi is as clean as modern industry is capable of yielding. This helps to ensure that negligible amounts of container ship bunker fuel ends up under Pi’s surface.