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Africa Empowerment

Re-Think Food. Eat. Energize.

Builders Evolving the World

Evolve Builders Group Inc. promotes sustainability in their business model, emphasizing environmentally friendly innovations creating a positive impact on their clients and the surrounding community.

Custom Gift Boxes Open Job Opportunities

Soumya Benhaddou is the CEO of Top Emballage company. She discussed with us how she created her company and from where the idea came from. In addition, she showed us her products and how it is made. Also, she shared with us her will of getting involved in the environment by using recyclable materials in the creation of her products. Moreover, she is proud that her company is not only made for profit but also for helping others; for instance, people in need and in financial crisis.

Creating Tomorrow's Auto Collision Work Force

The owner of 427 Auto Collision-- Ralph D’Alessandro--is a supporter of youth and their well being. This quote from the interviewee Rosanna Armata, company HR Manager, shows his commitment to youth. “Ralph D’Alessandro is an amazing visionary, always knew that the future was in the hands of the youth, so a huge supporter of young people”. He wanted to make it possible for his company to give young people, including women, experience and knowledge in the trade.

Environmental Impact of Reusable Bottle Industry in Guelph

Cupanion aims to positively impact the global water crisis by producing sustainable products. Selling reusable water bottles helps reduce the use of single use products, bettering the environment.

Cupanion has a program called Fill it Forward, which was developed in 2012. This program donates roughly 3 cups of water per product sold to people with no access to clean water. To date, Cupanion has donated roughly 1.8 million cups of water globally.

Cupanion also has a tree planting system in effect when custom orders are placed through the company. Custom orders vary widely, but a tree is planted through donations to a tree planting company Carbon Farmer. The Fill it Forward campaign is also in effect, having multiple positive influences.

Putting the Sun to Work

Guelph Solar has an extensive range of solar products offering the newest technology. Their main draw for the average citizen is the MicroFit program, which is a government initiative to promote alternate energy sources.

Dry Cleaning for a Greener Earth

King Cleaners is a leader in the dry cleaning industry. They provide high-quality service for a competitive price to ensure satisfaction and affordability. Their methods are friendly to the environment and your clothes. King Cleaners takes care of much more than your clothes. They take great care with all sorts of items, from handbags to Uggs, leather, wedding dresses, bedding and more. Many fabrics lose quality after being washed at home. At King Cleaners, they use the GreenEarth method to handle all your belongings. The GreenEarth method never involves harsh chemicals so that the planet is safe and your fabrics will not lose integrity. Your items will be returned without any odors that other cleaners cause, without losing colour and with the same softness. King Cleaners is an expert that can handle even your most fragile belongings.

Helping Tone the Environment

Blue Ocean Office Supplies provides re-manufactured ink and toner cartridges to individuals and businesses across Canada. Their business model incorporates 10% of purchases to be donated to charities or organizations of the business's choice and approval. This company is aiming to restructure the market by providing specific, tangible support to local organizations through the purchase of basic office supplies.

The Business Behind Business

The Shed Market Business Model

The goal of The Shed Market is to provide high quality, locally sourced food to the Guelph community at a reasonable price and educate customers about how the food they eat gets from the farm to their plates.

The Shed Market is committed to working directly with local farmers, growers, and producers to provide hormone and steroid free meat and other products to its' customers.

Owner, Sheldon, says The Shed Market wants to change the current social mindset that locally sourced, quality food is an unaffordable luxury for most people by offering a wide selection of sustainable, ethically raised products that are competitive with, and sometimes below grocery store and big box prices.

A Farm Growing More Than Produce

An organic and environmentally sustainable farm that leads the way in environmentally friendly agriculture practices in Canada. The New Farm also creates fund-raising initiatives to provide organic and healthy produce to food centres throughout Toronto, and does so in a profitable fashion for all organic and environmentally sustainable farms that partner with The New Farm.

http://thenewfarm.ca/

Socially Responsible Window Washing

This business model incorporates a triple bottom line into his window cleaning business, taking into account the environment, social impact, and finances. In addition to the use of soap-free filters, they employ the concept of giving back a portion of the proceeds and employing from less advantaged communities. “I founded the company on the principle of having a net positive impact on the community," said the founder, Ben Miles.

Quest to a Collective Wealth

A cooperative network among multiple stages of the value chain empowers a variety of workers to have sustainable employment, while the network itself helps to bring a Moroccan national treasure (argan oil) affordably into the hands of diverse people. The network begins with a women's cooperative farm, extends through a now health-certified production center, and then distributes through a commission-based grassroots network.

To Strengthen People to Succeed

The key idea for Styrkebaserad is to guide people; leaders, co-workers, parents into sustainable positive change using Appreciative Inquiry methods.

Building Peace for the Love of Ice Cream

Healing the Earth Through Meals

The First Interaction with the Real Business World

ARGANTIC produces natural healing oils and cosmetics in a safe working environment in a region where exploitation of people and resources is too common. The company employs marginalized people, primarily women, in the mountains of Morocco, and requires employees to participate in literacy and safety training programs. The manager recognizes this is good for business,"Investing in workplace training is money well spent because employers with efficient and effective safety and health conditions and training programs benefit from fewer injuries, and accidents' complaints." The workers are now able to work safely, educate their children, and take care of their families.

Driving Towards the Green Gate

An electric car network piloted at the Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Marakech, Morocco as a corporate strategic alliance seeking to create consumer demand for green thinking and green choices in a country where grassroots environmental awareness remains low.

Creating a Hydrogen-Based Society and Its Impact on Global Warming and Peace

With the increased demand in the world for energy, the need for clean and sustainable energy is more urgent than ever before. Fossil fuel had a significantly negative global impact on the environment and on people. The ability to have a sustainable, reproducible source of energy will definitely reduce the number of conflicts in the world, as many of the global conflicts are related to fossil fuel needs.

The concept described here in this innovation is based on using renewable energy to power hydrogen-generating systems and fuel cells that convert hydrogen into electricity — with zero carbon emissions.