Top Climate tech companies in San Francisco

At Recology, you’ll join a team of passionate, creative, and dedicated individuals who are leaders in sustainability. As the only 100% employee-owned company in the waste and recycling industry, our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) ensures that our company remains in the hands of our employee-owners, not external stakeholders. This means that every team member has a stake in our success and shares in the rewards of our collective efforts. Founded by immigrants in early 1900s San Francisco, Recology started with the vision of seeing value in what others discarded. Today, we continue this mission with over 3,700 employee-owners serving more than one million customers across California, Oregon, and Washington. Our services include residential and commercial waste collection and recycling, curbside composting, construction and demolition debris recycling, and more. Each service is designed to keep our communities clean and materials out of the landfills. Where some see waste, we see resources. Join us at Recology, where you’ll help customers divert waste from landfills, embrace sustainable practices, and contribute to a future without waste. See our social media community guidelines: linktr.ee/recology

• 1.3k employees
• Founded 1920

d.light is a global leader and pioneer in delivering affordable solar-powered solutions designed for the two billion people in the developing world without access to reliable energy. d.light provides distributed solar energy solutions for households and small businesses that are transforming the way people all over the world use and pay for energy. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world and impacting 100 million lives by 2020.Find out more at www.dlight.com

• 1.1k employees
• Founded 2007

ESA is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm. We plan, design, permit, mitigate, and restore—for projects across our communities, infrastructure systems, open spaces, and wildlands. We are 50 years strong in 21 offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southeastern United States.Specializing in community and airport planning, environmental planning, analysis and assessment, natural and cultural resources management, environmental restoration and design, and regulatory compliance—ESA scientists, planners, historians, archaeologists, engineers, designers, and technical specialists provide critical thinking, in-depth analyses, and committed follow-through to guide successful policy development and project planning, and deliver enduring multi-objective solutions.

• 745 employees
• Founded 1969

AMS is now part of Fluence. We’re accelerating our cutting-edge digital products by joining energy storage leader Fluence.

• 625 employees
• Founded 2013

The California Legislature created the Bay Area Air District in 1955 as the first regional air pollution control agency in the country.The Air District is the public agency entrusted with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.Vision: A healthy breathing environment for every Bay Area resident.Mission: The Air District improves air quality to protect public health, reduce historical and current environmental inequities, and mitigate climate change and its impacts.Core Values Transparency: We are dedicated to full transparency toward holding ourselves accountable for our decisions and actions.Partnership: We value our partners, fostering meaningful collaboration both internally and externally to achieve shared objectives.Trust: We gain public trust by grounding our programs and policies in law, science, and the lived experience of our communities.Equity: We commit to equity and ensuring that our organizational culture fosters a diverse workforce that reflects our communities.Environmental Justice: We aim to integrate environmental justice principles into all aspects of our work, and we seek enhanced environmental justice outcomes for overburdened communities.Integrity: We lead with integrity, serving as honest and responsible stewards of public resources, basing our actions in law and science, and pioneering effective and innovative solutions in partnership with the communities we serve.See our social media policy: baaqmd.gov/online-services/social-media-policy

• Grant
• 483 employees
• Founded 1955