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Verde Compacto launched Huvster, an intelligent vegetable growing system inside a recycled shipping container. Huvster has the capacity to feed around 70-120 families by growing up to 200 times more vegetables per square meter and using much less water and fertilizer than harvesting on the soil. With these characteristics Verde Compacto is helping the communities to be more sustainable, consumers to consume responsibly by producing their food without affecting the environment; and above all is helping the communities to fight against hunger. The main goal of the company is to guarantee food security for the planet through different practices and the assistance of technology, having a positive impact on society and the environment.
Ubuntoo is a platform made for those of us who want to be the change. The Ubuntoo namesake is derived from the African word ubuntu, which roughly means, “I am what I am because of who we all are.” We understand that we created this predicament together and together we must commit to discovering solutions. Ubuntoo believes that the world’s largest environmental problems can be solved by working together. Ubuntoo has been connecting innovators and industry leaders since 2019 to create the optimal online space for innovative solutions to the world’s plastic pollution issue. To combat large scale problems the innovators of the world need to be connected with the large corporations that are creating these issues. Soon Ubuntoo will focus on more than just plastic pollution, but other issues related to the UN's SDGs. Ubuntoo is an online platform for innovators and industry leaders to connect and collaborate on solutions and technologies to reduce plastic pollution.
One Call Care Management’s mission statement “Getting injured workers the care they need, when they need it” has been put to the test during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. As a workers' compensation service provider, One Call works with healthcare providers throughout the country to offer a comprehensive suite of services, including in-home health service, transportation, and language services. As safer at home orders became prevalent throughout the country, One Call had to pivot their business model to partner with healthcare providers to offer telehealth services. One Call’s innovative solutions during the coronavirus pandemic meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-Being) and 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).
In an effort to reduce fabric consumption and the use of paper, Lefty Production Company has implemented a new automated laser cutting technology. This innovation coupled with Lefty’s sourcing methods helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production.
With direct trade, Stumptown Coffee has set the standard for developing sustainable business partnerships in today’s global economy. Their business practices have fostered economic stability for communities around the world, which benefit their business as well as their producers’, and ensures the highest quality coffee for their customers.
Cropsticks is focused on producing products for Asian cuisine that are environmentally friendly. They have innovated the traditional chopstick by using bamboo as their raw material and added a rest to support the pair on the table. They also produce durable biodegradable bamboo straws and recycle the used Cropsticks into consumer products which further their commitment to sustainable development.
Impossible Foods was created to end the use of animals in food via making meat and fish-like products directly from plants. The company introduced the "Impossible Burger," which is made out of plants so that meat lovers could enjoy burgers without harming animals.
Playa Bowls incorporates environmental sustainability throughout its business practices. All restaurants use ECO bowls, spoons, lids, and straws. Fifty percent of Playa Bowls' furniture is reclaimed or refurbished, and all restaurant locations use 100% LED lighting technology. These solutions align with UN Sustainability Goal 12 of responsible consumption and production, and UN Sustainability Goal 7 of affordable and clean energy.
Burn to Give is a health and well-being company that made it their mission to improve healthy lifestyles while making an impact on the global issue of hunger. The company aims to provide a holistic well-being solution to encourage healthy lifestyles by linking personal achievement to traceable social impact.
Shopping in Kenya is definitely changing, especially with the presence of the internet and increased use of online platforms for business. It is now easier for companies to link their customers with their products, and to link businesses with other businesses. It may have been quite difficult to consider the idea of farming done online – or grocery shopping. However, online presence in Kenya is changing this scenario as several online companies are cropping for the same purpose. Such is the idea that led to the growth of Twiga Foods. It may be a surprise that the company that handles more than 130 tons of market produce started with bananas, before growing to the stature it enjoys at the moment. Twiga Foods is a platform that links businesses to businesses. It acts as a marketplace that links farmers to urban retailers. The company does this by sourcing for produce from the farmers and delivering it to the urban retailers. Twiga is mobile-based and links African retail outlets, market stalls, and kiosks. It uses a mobile-based cashless and business-to-business supply approach to distribute produce among the millions of small and medium-sized vendors across all African urban markets.
Twiga Foods handles at least 130 tons of market produce on a daily basis and provides the suppliers and vendors in its platform with a guaranteed market. It is notable that the network of small-business proprietors on the Twiga Food platform includes at least 17,000 farmers and 8,000 vendors. The farmers and vendors are able to access the market directly, thus offering the lowest prices of food for the consumers. According to the co-Founder of Twiga Foods who is also the current CEO, Mr. Peter Njonjo, offering the lowest prices of foods for consumers has ripple effects on the entire economy. As such, the marketing strategy of the company is in the low prices it offers the vendors for the produce. This has been done by eliminating brokers and using a single platform that joins the network of food producers, pack houses, and transportation systems that supply and deliver the wide variety of produces from vendors (both formal and informal) across cities. Consequently, post-harvest losses have also been reduced by about 50%. With a team of more than 400 professionals who work on sourcing, finance, logistics, technology, administration, and human resources, Twiga Foods attracts at least 14,000 unique customers on a weekly basis.
Perhaps the most outstanding aspect of the company is the strive by the administration to align its strategy with the frameworks of the sustainable development goals. Particularly, the company aligns its functions with the second SDG that seeks to end hunger and achieve food security, while improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. Mr. Njonjo states that the company does this by having an organized platform founded on transparency, efficiency, fairness, and formality of the marketplace. Besides, the company also seeks to achieve this by creating sustainable farming methods that lead to a sustainable value chain in entire Africa. As such, Twiga Foods has partnered with Sun Culture that has helped to introduce the concept of solar irrigation. The project has been utilized in Taita Taveta in Kenya and the mode of use elaborated through the Farmer Engagement Program run by both Twiga Foods and Sun Culture. Samson Makau, a farmer from the area says that the concept has introduced a new concept of farming that has increased the efficiency of watering their farms and increasing production. Through this type of irrigation, farmers are able to get water throughout their farms with less hustle and more cheaply, thus increased production. Besides, the partnership between the International Financial Corporation and Twiga Foods helps to coach farmers on the best agricultural practices. The partnership is in line with meeting the goals of the second SDG while ensuring transparent sourcing of produce from smallholder farmers.
It is quite prudent to note that the goals of the company are aligned both to the global needs of farmers and the sustainable development goals. Particularly, Twiga Foods is working toward certifying all farmers on the Global GAP by March 2021. The company also intends to establish global standards for all the farmers’ produce.
ECOS is a company that provides safer, affordable, and sustainable alternatives to household cleaning products for consumers. It works to protect the health of people, pets, and the environment. Its sustainable manufacturing practices allow its mission to be accomplished from raw materials to the finished product. The company’s sustainable manufacturing is an innovation in itself, but so are its household cleaning products as they are made from plant-powered ingredients that are affordable. ECOS is the definition of sustainable as it benefits the environment, economy, and society, and its positive impact is far from over.
Algramo challenges the traditional supply chain innovating on the packing and distribution models. With Algramo, intermediate steps are eliminated and the products (basic foods like rice and sugar) are delivered and sold directly in small stores with reused containers. Alternatively, at-home delivery is offered with electric tricycles, generating 0 pollution gases, and preventing CO2 emissions.
This disruptive innovation promotes the use of organic materials to manufacture utensils of daily use, which ensures that they can be reintegrated in nature thanks to the degradation in the presence of microbes and bacteria, taking approximately 240 days under given temperature and humidity conditions. Due to this, Greenprint has a positive impact on carbon footprint reduction.
Monterrey is known as one of Latin America’s most contaminated cities with very poor air quality; also it is one of the cities with a high number of visual contamination (billboards). Pollumesh is a transparent coating that can be applied to external advertising on almost any kind and form of surface that neutralizes pollutants in the air around the surface focusing on combustion particles.
GCM faced a problem for treating waste generated by its hogs' cattle. They initiated using waste reservoirs that eventually hit capacity. They innovated using a bio-digester to transform waste into useful products for their own consumption and for local economy needs. GCM is now the centerpiece of a Circular Economy Model that supplies biofertilizers, treated water, and energy for themselves and for other stakeholders from different sectors. GCM contributes to two main sustainable development goals (SDG’s) as a Source of Affordable and Clean Energy through the use of Bio-gas, and as a Sustainable Production and Consumption Patterns supporting sustainable cattle food production in their own farmlands and using their in-house biofertilizer.
Adriano di Marti is a company founded by two Mexican entrepreneurs, Adrian Lopez and Marte Cazarez. The company is dedicated to producing high-quality vegan leather, named Desserto, made from nopal cactus for the fashion, furniture, and automobile industry while complying with the most rigorous quality and environmental standards. Through Desserto, the company is positively impacting Mexican farmers making industry from a resilient and abundant crop; while, helping the environment reduce the carbon footprint, save water and eliminate toxic waste (from the tanning process) vs animal leather. Adriano di Marti wants to grow awareness about the environmental impact current textiles have and has the vision that Desserto will help to transition to a more sustainable fashion industry. Pursuing this vision, Adriano di Marti is also taking care of an important stakeholder of the industry where change may be catalyzed: designers. The company puts at their disposition Desserto below minimum order quantity (from a stock the founders buy) for their prototypes and help them link with factories to produce them.
Tierra de Monte is an agricultural company that provides biological products that increase the productivity and quality of agriculture without causing environmental impact. The purpose is to strengthen agriculture through the application of cutting-edge biotechnology, making soils work more efficiently and effectively. Through their business model, they work together with Mexican communities to increase the performance of and regenerate their soils at a low cost.
Stonesoup is a company founded by visionary working women who analyzed the issues of waste management and started working towards reducing the community’s waste impact. They stepped up from being an eco-warrior to an eco-entrepreneur to create products and solutions that can help people who want to make a change. Stonesoup products include face masks, menstrual cups, cloth pads, cloth diapers, composting kits, handmade personal care products, household cleaners, reusable bags, and home segregation kits. Their ultimate goal is to make sustainable living easy. Stonesoup engages economically challenged communities to manufacture their products. Sourcing cloth bags and hand-made products from rural areas. Stonesoup creates awareness on sustainable menstrual health management in schools, colleges, corporations, and communities through sessions, posters, articles, and interviews in various media. Stonesoup also facilitates skill development workshops on making sustainable period care products for semi-skilled women in various parts of India. Stonesoup also provides solutions to decentralized composting, eliminating sanitary waste, reducing dry waste, and enabling chemical-free water bodies. All their products encourage the reuse culture and mitigate the amount of household waste reaching the landfill by 95%. By using Stonesoup products, the amount of waste generated by households is reduced considerably. This minimizes the waste that is burnt or sent to the landfill. Hence reduction in the production of greenhouse gasses. The natural cleaners ensure that no chemicals are flushed from households into the water bodies. Reusable cloth bags attempt to reduce the plastic bags in circulation that ultimately end up in our water bodies and landfills. Stonesoup also partners with organizations like Rotary Inner Wheel, Word Vision, Solid Waste Management Round Table (SWMRT), Sewa International, and The Better India to increase reach.
Agricolus offers a suite of products and solutions to its customer base consisting of farmer associations, medium/large farms, and multi-national Agroholding companies. The range of products offered on its convenient channels includes decision support systems to provide superior insights on disease warnings, treatment plans, fertilizer management, and weather forecasting. To facilitate the digitization journey of their clients, Agricolus has a well-defined road map consisting of maturity stages and pillars of support. The digitization phases can be from field mapping, crop scouting to crop operations, and task management, and they can all be driven through the Agricolus application, available across a multitude of devices. Through the efficient collection, analysis, and expertise it is able to provide GIS-enabled services such as satellite imagery, crop scouting, weather forecasting, and expertise-backed process checklists to promote best practices for specific crops and land areas.
The solutions provided by Agricolus are centered on increasing farm productivity and preserving optimal
biodiversity. Agricolus aims to closely collaborate with customers and be their partner in
the digitalization journey of the business models. The Precision Farming techniques offered through the Agricolus App supplemented with machine learning, data analytics, and predictive modeling technology,
enable sustainable land use without excessive plot damage while improving crop
quality/yield and reducing overall expenditure.