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Brew Sisters' café is a Melbourne-based coffee business which is saving the planet one mug at a time. The sisters and baristas, Gabby and Flick have set their coffee cart apart from the rest at Melbourne University by encouraging consumers to drink responsibly (their coffee, that is). Brew Sisters provide their customers with waste-free options through the use of a mug library and their strong encouragement of keep cups. They have two locations at Melbourne University, a coffee van and a shop front, as well as a mobile coffee cart which they set up at different events and markets. Their main goal through this innovation is to educate people on the environmental impact of their consumption habits – FYI coffee cups are NOT recyclable!
Ecü has transformed the way the shoe sole and socks are produced. For the shoe sole, the company uses wasted tires and PET plastic as raw materials, the mix of these materials helps to have a lighter sole. To do this they collect, recycle and finally design their products to create useful and innovative ones. For other product that Ecü has to offer to their clients use bamboo thread, which is a plant that requires less volume of water than the cotton for its harvest.
The purpose of this project is to generate a positive environmental effect by creating useful products for the community. Daniel Noroña, co-founder of Ecu, said “Our company uses wasted tires to reduce the impact in our environment and give a second use of this waste to help our planet.” It's important to highlight that as of today the company has recycled around 1,350 tires and they expect to continue increasing this amount by growing their sales volume. Ecu will help to reduce the increasing pollution problems that is caused in our country by burning tires, which release CO2. A burning tire is equivalent to the pollution that a car produces in one year. Mexico produced annually 40 million of tires and less than 4% of these wastes are recycled, the ones that are recycled are used to create gym floors, shoe soles or for the renewal of pavement roads. In addition, the company continues looking forward to innovate in other clothes by recycling materials to help to reduce the carbon footprint.
In Latin America, insects are not commonly consumed as a food source and a few industrial-scale enterprises are using the potential of insects in nutrition for human consumption. In Colombia, Arthrofood is the first and only initiative that creates a cricket’s production plant and cricket to be processed into meal.
It all started with the design of a teaching model based on exploration in the real field. Afterwards, Hiram Bernal created a business rooted in environmental and social programs for communities not yet explored in Mexico.
Expediciones Biosfera promotes environmental tourism, with activities and visits that have an educational value. While doing tourism, customers live with the inhabitants of the communities they visit. Together they generate ideas to improve the quality of life in these communities without affecting their traditions and beliefs.
Today Energryn is the company with more success in sustainable innovation
in Mexico: the only Mexican company awarded with the Innovation Prize by the Pacific Alliance in the category of Environment and the only company from Quintana Roo that has won two times the Fund of Technology Innovation (FIT by its initials in Spanish) from SE and CONACYT. With 9 patents, they are the company with the most patents in the world in the fields of Solar Water Heating. With just 8 kg. of weight, Solesyto is the solar hybrid water heating system with the smallest ecological footprint in the world. Energryn has been chosen as the company with the most social impact in 2017 by the Shelter Tech Mexico program hosted by Habitat for Humanity, Village Capital and
Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.
"Energryn has helped solve various aspects of the daily lives of Mexicans. Statistics show that more than half of families in Mexico bathe in cold water because they lack a water heater and only 2% of homes in our country have a solar heater. The innovation of “solesyto” directly contributes to people with low purchasing power, to take a bath with hot water, without compromising their income or incurring orbiting expenses." This is aligned with the sustainable development goals of “GOOD HEALTH & WELL BEING”; dignifying baths for marginalized communities.
Another problem that it solves, is AFFORDABLE & CLEAN ENERGY; because it uses solar radiation to heat the water and it does it with an easily accessible technology and very friendly costs.
The heater "Solesyto" is patented as the heater that generates the lowest carbon footprint in the world, and the business has also incurred in the hotel industry for water heating, which makes the infrastructure of hotels improve with this innovation, taking care of the objective of INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE of the SDG's.
The ecological footprint of the solar heater “Solesyto”, compared to an LP Gas heater, reduces CO2 emissions by 80%, contributing to reduce pollution and therefore benefiting the environment in favor of CLIMATE ACTION. Additionally, the heater is produced with 100% recyclable materials, which makes it an alternative that is environmentally friendly.
Bodega Cero is a concept store for the zero-waste lifestyle “where you can find everything you need to eat, to clean yourself and to clean your house, with the least packaging possible. In the process, some innovation has been done, particularly by our vendors and suppliers, because they need to think about waste, selling the original product without its packaging. For example, the products we sell in the form of a bar, like shampoos, air conditioning, we have insect repellent in bar, so it is innovative.”
Interlub Group is redefining the traditional lubricant industry, co-creating intelligent solutions to address the less common and most critical challenges in friction and wear on machinery in more than 35 countries around the world. Interlub Group offers tailor-made products which help companies to increase their competitiveness and productivity and to reduce the ecological impact. They provide very low-cost solutions for solving very big productivity problems.
Interlub Group always seeks to generate a positive impact on the environment and improve the quality of life for people worldwide. In addition to making great contributions to the entrepreneurial and university ecosystems in Mexico, they consistently support the achievement of some SDGs such as: Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Sustainable Cities and Communities; and Responsible Consumption and Production.
The innovation of Pixza is its competitive advantage: an original value proposal deliver to the consumer, a business model for-profit and for-impact, and a social commitment to achieve the mission of providing social economically productive reinsertion opportunities for young adults with a social abandonment profile.
With the business model that Laboratoria has more than a thousand women found a challenging job in more than four countries. In Latin America, the demand for IT professionals will exceed the supply and there will be a deficit of 449,000 employees for 2019, according to a study made by IDC and CISCO. This innovation works with the UN Global Goals contributing to reduce poverty, increase the quality of education, reduce inequalities, promoting gender equality and bets for economic growth in Latin America.
There is a vast amount of food in perfect shape and perfect condition for consumption that goes to waste only because it has a small imperfection. FOOD FUNDING goes to primary food distributors and gets the food separated as "not good for sale", this does not mean the product is in bad condition, it means just “looking bad”, but not quality problems . With these products, FOOD FUNDING prepares the meals offered through their catering services.
Development of communities through self-construction of houses generating employment and engaging in a sustainable development considering the culture and necessities of each family.
The innovation consists in collecting waste oil from restaurants and transforming it into biodiesel, which is eco-friendly and reduces CO2 emissions, with a very low investment.
In other countries this is a common practice, but in Mexico waste oil is widely used as livestock food instead for biodiesel, causing pollution and health problems to consumers.
Mediante la adopción de compromisos de triple impacto por parte de sus clientes, Unboxed busca erradicar la indiferencia ante las problemáticas mundiales. Aplican una estrategia en la que fomentan la educación de calidad; el trabajo decente y crecimiento económico; la producción y consumo responsables; sin descuidar la creación de alianzas para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.
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Through the adoption of triple-impact commitments by its customers, Unboxed seeks to eradicate indifference to global issues. They apply a strategy in which they promote quality education; decent work and economic growth; responsible production and consumption; without neglecting the creation of alliances to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Botanicus is an innovative brand that delivers natural beauty and health care products without losing sight of who they help in the process and the impact that the jobs they create have on the people from the community. Our team agreed that their initiative directly impacts three Sustainable Development Goals: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all; Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable; and ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Atexcaco Hydroelectric plant is the only private hydroelectric which operates on “run-of-the-river” system in Mexico. This hydroelectric plant is in Puebla and it is part of Autlan, a company mainly dedicated to exploit manganese ferro-alloys.
Different from other mining companies and also traditional hydroelectric plants, Autlan created Atexcaco Hydroelectric in order to supply their 155 MW need of energy, through a “run-of-the-river” or “no reservoir” plant.
The Atexcaco Hydroelectrectric initiative supports four of the Sustainable Development Goals:
(7) “Affordable and Clean Energy” - Through hydroelectric power, and no combustible fuels, Autlan creates its own energy.
(6) “Clean Water and Sanitation” - Without a reservoir, flooding of the upper part of the river does not take place, river flow continues. As a result, people and animals, remain living at or near the river and existing habitats are not flooded.
(12) “Responsible Consumption and Production” - Atexcaco's Plant is designed in order to only extract the correct flow amount, without damaging environmental balance.
(13) “Climate Action” - since the plant provides 100% sustainable energy, avoiding the river contamination and preventing emissions of CO2.
We believe there is an innovation and potential versus other manufacturing companies by integrating a self-service clean energy and also versus traditional hydroelectric plants. Mexico is sub-indexed in terms of hydroelectric production (1.6% versus 16% rest of the world out of total energy production) and is a country which could scale this technology through its 37 hydrological regions, and not only public but private initiatives such as Autlan. In this way Autlan group can create value with a sustainable method.
Nani Marcela Lizcano, an environmental engineer, merges her Entrepreneurial Spirit with the benefits of nature. She is from Neiva, and she is also a graduate of Corhuila University. Nani is the creator of the Amanita ecological store.
The idea of a company with an environmental and social sense was born in June 2018 as a result of her concerns, which came from studying, reading, and exploring inputs. At that time, she decided to register Amanita as a brand for Huila with personal care products and a truly ecological concept, social and environmental entrepreneurship. This brand specializes in natural and organic soap and offers a wide variety of products. Soaps with elements such as aloe vera and calendula, grape and biotin, turmeric and honey, exfoliating oat and coconut, rice and rosemary, rose water and collagen all make the list of products. Each of them has specific properties for skincare, whether for sensitive or normal skin, or skin which is predisposed to allergies, dry or greasy.
BILD is a B Corp focusing on developing impactful solutions for Bolivia’s Base of the Pyramid (BoP), where traditional businesses, NGO’s, government bodies, and other international institutions have been unable to make potable water available to underprivileged citizens. In its initial venture, BILD partnered with the Bolivian government to provide LifeSaver™ nano-technology water filters in water-impoverished communities throughout the country. Within two years, BILD made available 6 million+ liters of potable water to over 60% of Bolivians who live without access to alternative clean water systems.
Freudenberg company has developed a rubber recycling process that results in a high quality recycled material that can be used to make a wide range of products. The method could help create new markets for recycled rubber, which can usually only be used for low-grade applications. In this case, rubber is being used to create synthetic grass for soccer fields which enable society to have more areas to make exercise.
The innovation developed by Proteak is a model of vertical integration in the production of wood, going from tree plantation to the board manufacturing process. The company develops forests where there is none. Proteak broke the traditional wood extraction model and managed to raise long term funds from investors to develop profitable and sustainable woods in the southeast of Mexico, a region facing an unprecedented social and economic crisis.