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The Telosity Company's innovative business service is to provide other businesses with tools and ideas to create a more humane company structure. They go beyond profit maximization; aiming to benefit all stakeholders, including employees, consumers and shareholders.
Stonepicker Brewing Company’s primary goal has been to provide their friends and community with local, homemade, great-tasting beer. Stonepicker’s local, full-circle, minimal-waste production is an innovation that helps them stand out in the craft beer community. It also contributes, in a positive way, to society and the environment.
With the Grain aims to make a positive impact on the Guelph community by sourcing many of its ingredients, for their baked goods, locally. This positive impact can be seen by looking at the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that With the Grain Achieves with its innovation of sourcing locally. There are two main SDGs: the first is goal 8 which is sustainable economic growth, and the second is goal 12 which is responsible consumption and production. The combination of the two UN SDGs and the innovation of sourcing goods locally has allowed With the Grain an integral part of improving the Guelph.
In 2015 Baden Coffee Company created the Pipeline brand, which involves sourcing, selecting, and buying coffee directly from farmers. The Pipeline enables the company to create strong and lasting relationships with the farmers, and to ensure that they are treated fairly, ethically, and respectfully. The Pipeline initiative helps solve several of the UN sustainable goals including Good Jobs and Economic Growth, Reduced Inequalities, and Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Izzy’s Imperfect Items is a unique business that strives to create products out of materials that are already on this planet. Izzy says that she “really takes pride with the business making sure that [she uses] as much as [she can] from re-purposed items.” She takes bold climate action by not supporting the textile industry, instead she re-utilizes materials such as hair elastics, fabric, and old buttons. She is content knowing that can create a finished product that is fully sustainable, made from recycled materials that would otherwise be discarded and sent to landfills. She is working on expanding her line of sustainable products to all genders and currently she makes scrunchies, pocket squares and utensil holders.
The innovation introduced surrounds ways of providing eco-friendly home and kitchen products to consumers in a zero to little waste way. Laura Newton, entrepreneur, and owner of the boutique sells, buys, and packages using biodegradable and compostable paper and boxes or glass jars to minimize the level of waste.
Flow’s biggest innovation is operating in a circular economy via their 68% renewable packaging. Flow has adopted a circular production system, making a continuous cycle starting from when they produce the water to the packaging being recycled by the consumer. By creating a circular economy, they are creating less waste and maintaining a high-quality product with a significantly smaller carbon footprint.
The innovative business model that Flow has adopted addresses several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through this innovation, Flow has worked towards solving climate action, clean water and sanitation, responsible consumption and production, life below water, life on land, and partnerships for the goals. Flow aims to continuously address and solve the current goals, by working towards “closing the loop” and creating 100% renewable packaging.
Earth Fresh offers a light-blocking, recyclable package for potatoes. This innovation extends the potatoes' shelf-life by almost 3 weeks, resulting in decreased food waste .
Elora Pottery gives individuals the space to access freedom of artistic expression while doing her part in the world's fight for the reduction of material consumption. Allowing customers to come and express their artistic side while learning the never ending possibilities of clay promotes the SDG of good health and well-being. Elora Pottery also contributes to the goal of responsible consumption by recycling and reusing excess and already thrown clay.
Obrigado provides natural coconut-related products to global markets using their patented extraction method. This method ensures that the land is preserved and the entire coconut is used in production. The company abides by their Zero Waste goal by ensuring they are socially and environmentally responsible for both the consumption and production of their products. The company helps solve several SDG’s by protecting natural resources and using sustainable production patterns.
Perpetual Motion Sports and entertainment’s business innovation lies within the way in which the intramural league is structured. It provides a way for each intramural sport to grow each year in Guelph, and run smoothly without running into any problems. Due to the exquisite structure of the league, it has helped Perpetual Motion flourish in Guelph and help solve 3 main UN SDG goals. These goals include reduced inequality, sustainable cities and communities, and good health.
Brothers Brewery prides itself on being a communal hub for Guelph businesses and citizens. They are hosts to food pop-ups, charity organizations, workshops and patrons alike. This link to the community is a gateway to helping the world around them.
Crazy Carrot’s innovation of providing healthy yet affordable fast food to people on the go is fueled by Anurag Sood’s drive to give back to the community. With this new approach to the fast food industry, Crazy Carrot is striving to provide freshly made, environmentally friendly, nutritious foods to the city of Guelph. Ultimately, he hopes to change the way people view and consume fast food.
Atma Bio a un impact sur la bonne santé et le bien-être des gens à travers sa gamme d’infusions médicinales. Ce qui est remarquable c’est que cette entreprise vise au bien-être et à la santé au-delà de son offre de produit. Management, consommation, production visent en permanence la bonne santé des employés et de l’environnement.
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Atma Bio has an impact on people's health and well-being through its range of medicinal infusions. What is outstanding is that this obsession for well- being and health is visible inside the company through its management, consumption and production choices.
It was just after the morning rush hour when we drove from our office in BSD to Sanggar Batik Kembang Mayang in Larangan. Our goal then was to get insights from the people who run the Sanggar so we can use it for our project at the Academy. We are team of 6 students/mentors from the Apple Developer Academy in BSD, and our challenge was to find a community where we can apply what we have learned at the academy, and develop a mobile application for the community.
Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth. This technique originated from Java, Indonesia. Batik has been acknowledged by UNESCO as one of the heritages of the world. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting, or by printing the resist with a copper stamp.
We arrived at the Sanggar at around 10 AM, just when the Sanggar was about to open. The Sanggar was located inside a cluster in the Larangan area. We were not familiar with the area, but thankfully we made it on time for the meeting.
We were greeted with a big smile by Mrs. Farah, the founder and facility manager of the Sanggar. After a little chit-chat in front, we were asked to go inside the building.
The building was a medium-sized building, the size of a house, but with no separation. It was one big hall with many posters about how to live healthy, and some batik creation by the students and the Craftswomen.
“This is a Posyandu”, said Mrs. Farah.
Posyandu, short for Pos Pelayanan Terpadu, is a government program that is aimed to give understanding and knowledge to parents across Indonesia about how to raise a healthy children, including giving vaccinations/immunisations.
“But since the building is only used once a month, we asked the local government if we can use it for a Sanggar, and they agreed”, she continued.
We continued to look around inside the Sanggar, where Mrs. Farah showed us many things from the production process to the finished Batik itself.
“I can’t believe it myself, that we can made it this far. It was just a small movement by several ibu-ibu around here, and in less than 3 years, we actually got invitation from many events as well as from the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) to share with them our journey,” she told us while holding an initial design of a Batik.
So after wandering around, we sat down on a folding chair together with Mrs. Farah and two of her partners. Right after a short chat about Batik with Mrs. Farah, she asked us if we would like to try making Batik ourselves. It was an offer that we could not resist, of course, so we started making our first Batik and realise how hard it is. Video:
It was a great experience, and we learned a lot that day.
Several weeks after that visit, we came back to the Sanggar to test the first iteration of our app, an app that mimic the process of creating Batik digitally using iPad. The video can be found here:
Special thanks to Sanggar Batik Kembang Mayang to host us and taught us with a very valuable lesson of maintaining the sustainability of Batik.
Sanggar Batik Kembang Mayang
Address: Jl. Mayang II, RT.002/RW.011, Larangan Sel., Kec. Larangan, Kota Tangerang, Banten 15154
Instagram: @batikkembangmayang
When Alex Winch bought his laundromat in 2002, it had been around since 1964 and was located in a building that was built in 1939. The business was old and the building was in desperate need of some renovations. It wasn’t an attractive investment for any potential buyers. However, despite its flaws, Alex saw the potential that the laundromat had. The building itself was on a busy street in Toronto and had no buildings obstructing the sun from the building. It was the perfect rooftop to put solar panels on.
Simplot Australia was a business with a sole focus on production and profit. However, they realised with the ongoing anxiety regarding climate change and sustainability, Simplot recognised a need for a company overhaul. They saw both a business case and an ethics case for the change: business had to change for the future of our planet and it was morally the right thing to do. They saw a niche which other companies in the industry were not tapping into and worked to change to a more sustainable business model.
The innovation by The KYND Butcher is combining two seemingly paradoxical ideas: 1. plant-based products and 2. your local butcher. The team is helping provide plant-based alternatives, along with recipes, to make the transition to vegan and vegetarian diets more sustainable. This contributes to better health in people, a more sustainable community, responsible consumption and production, climate action due to reduced agricultural farming and finally, it supports life on land.