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Spinnova is a textile fabric company, founded in 2015 in Jyväskylä, Finland by Juha Salmela and Janne Poranen. Spinnova creates textile fiber from cellulose, in other words, from wood. They are the only textile company in the world, that creates fiber from cellulose without any chemicals, with minimal water use, minimal emissions, and zero-waste. Their goal is to provide a more sustainable option for the textile industry, while the innovation also tackles bigger issues, such as climate change and freshwater shortage.
As a company, Spinnova aims to solve more than one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership with the brands, Decent work, and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Responsible consumption and production), Climate change), and Life below water.
The Donut App developed by Spark Sustainability allows individuals to calculate their personal carbon footprints and explore effortless but rewarding ways to reduce the environmental impacts of their everyday lives. Differing from other carbon trackers on the market, Donut App provides concrete advice that is tailored to one’s lifestyle by, for instance, suggesting circular economy products and services that assist in adopting more climate-friendly choices.
RiseGardens is contributing to several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. RiseGardens is supporting Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing by making fresh and healthy food more accessible to its customers year-round. By encouraging families to grow their own food, they are accessing a deeper understanding of food systems and nutrition. RiseGardens is also supporting Goal 4: Quality Education by promoting more interactions between humans and their food and environment. The company is contributing to Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities by developing systems that support locally-sourced foods and limit food mileage. Finally, RiseGardens is contributing to Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production by reinforcing the importance of fresh and nutritious food.
First Curve Apothecary is a small local business in Chicago, Illinois that creates herbal products from our Earth. They create and sell herbal tinctures, mushroom extracts, and teas to promote well-being for our mind and body as well as the local ecosystems. First Curve acts as stewards of the Earth while also providing products for society to consume and better themselves by following the UN Sustainable Development Goals of (3) Good Health and Well-being, (12) Responsible Consumption and Production, and (15) Protecting, Promoting, and Restoring Life on Land.
Dionne Nelson, the founder of Laurel Street, believes that her company's launch represented the perfect convergence of her educational background and professional careers. By chance, she landed a job with a residential real estate firm after completing business school and stints with a Wall Street investment firm, McKinsey Consulting, and New School. Her family had always owned a brokerage business, and she began selling real estate while in high school. When offered the opportunity to oversee the affordable housing development arm of a large residential real estate firm, she jumped at it. In that work, she found the perfect blend of commercial real estate market dynamics plus a model that accommodated low-income renters.
Recently, c|change has decided to make the important changes necessary to achieve B Corp certification so that they can continue their practice of world-building in an even more sustainable, effective way.
Lee Cochran, Senior Vice President of Development, has been with Laurel Street Residential (LSR) for over seven years. After a circuitous career path that began in mechanical engineering and meandered through public policy, urban planning, and public sector housing development, Lee landed with Laurel Street when he recognized that it would allow him to expand his skill set while combining the facets of work that he enjoyed most in each of his other roles – residential planning in a holistic way; positively influencing how communities grow and develop; combining urban planning and housing development; using data and financial projections to plan new projects; and being innovative and entrepreneurial.
ETS has been offering various tests and examinations to students for 70 plus years. As the extreme pandemic spread and continuously altered everyday life, many business and education systems had to change to maneuver around this hurdle. ETS did not change the education system on their own, but they altered their normalcies to adjust to the environment surrounding COVID-19.
Founded in 2009, Recover Green Roofs is a design-build firm based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and an industry leader in rooftop green spaces, from rooftop farms to residential green roofs and amenity spaces in mixed-use buildings. Their work includes a large range of projects, from very basic systems made up largely of sedums to complex integrated living roofs filled with perennials and even trees. Recently, the company developed their Recover Aerated Media Module (RAMM) system, an innovation which allows for the construction of green roofs on buildings not initially designed to support additional weight, opening up thousands of structures to the possibility of green roofs. These systems also create new pockets of biodiversity in the urban environment by reintroducing or increasing the number of plant species such as maple trees, liriope, heuchera, lavender, grasses, sedum, and many more. The work Recover Green Roofs does aligns with at least a half dozen of the UN Sustainable Development Goals with an emphasis on Sustainable Cities and Communities (SGD 11) and Life on Land (SDG 15).
Innovation is something that Terra Education wants everyone involved with their projects to obsess over. Terra Education has made strides as a business through its experiential learning model that sets it apart from the average travel agency.
Valley City “is a sustainable option for not just getting rid of your old electronics while making sure your data is secure, but we prioritize hiring returning citizens, which are formerly incarcerated, people.”
- Jonathan Neracher, Special Projects Coordinator
Valley City Electronics Recycling is an electronics recycling center based out of Michigan that prioritizes both environmental and social sustainability. The company collects old electronics from TVs to laptops to hard drives from both residents and businesses. Guaranteeing safe data wiping, they breakdown old electronics into parts for renovation and refurbishing. The company is a tightknit “family” primarily composed of returning citizens and formerly incarcerated people seeking a second chance. Valley City cares for the environment through a zero-waste landfill policy and cares for the community by integrating sustainability throughout the company.
Created by Nutrilite™, "Seed to Supplement" is a revolutionary idea that allows the nutritional value of the botanical to be converted into a vitamin or supplement with no added ingredients. The sustainable practice of using only what the botanical has to offer is changing how the consumer looks at healthy supplements. Good Health and Well-Being, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Climate Action are the SDGs this Innovation aims for.
Pivot Energy is a company that seeks to provide solar power to its customers in a fashion that provides benefits to as many participants as possible. The company works alongside developers and its customers to provide solar power in different fields. From private utilities to community solar gardens, Pivot Energy works to bring solar power to a more prominent position in power generation.
Kobee’s is an environmentally sensitive brand that understands that to preserve our environment, we must give back to it. The company’s innovative and sustainable lip balm ingredients are biodegradable, compostable, and reusable. Through the sale of its products, Kobee’s is able to collaborate with not-for-profit organizations that share the same vision for improving the way society interacts with the environment.
Sandhill Coffee is committed to numerous business practices that follow the 2030 UN agenda for sustainable development and promote wholesome growth in Central and South American farming communities, as well as Oceania.
Early Morning Harvest works to incorporate sustainable closed-loop circular initiatives into its farming practices. The company uses many different processes to ensure that almost everything has a purpose that can be used in the manufacturing process. One example is the aquaponics system that is a sustainable cycle that creates a symbiotic relationship between plants and fish. The purpose of the aquaponics system is to support the company's goals of growing produce without harmful chemicals or pesticides and to support all organic produce by purchasing a majority of organic non-GMO seeds. This also allows for a reduction of labor for the farmers that work at Early Morning Harvest.
Early Morning harvest also includes free-range chickens, fresh tilapia, grass-fed cows, and a grain mill to produce flour and cornmeal. The company uses rye, and buckwheat as cover crops to help prevent erosion and increase soil fertility. The workers use these same cover crops to make flour for baking products to be sold to the locals within the community.
Mikki Chewz is a black and female-owned chocolatier company that works with sustainable and ethically sourced chocolate to directly raise awareness for mental health. The company understands that the chocolate industry giants face ethical problems with wages and slave labor, so Mikki Chewz uses chocolate that helps pay a better living wage to workers, and it practices sustainability. Mikki Chewz believes that consumers should spend their money on ethical and sustainable products to support small companies and help them flourish.
Eco Lips creates organic, fair trade, cruelty-free, and non-GMO lip care products. They are made locally in Marion, Iowa. The idea started by Andrea Danielson when she began brewing small batches of natural lip balm in her kitchen for her friends and family. She took great care in handcrafting the balm and packaging it in small amber glass jars to preserve the freshness of the pure ingredients. Danielson did this as a hobby and did not think that much would come from it besides the joy it brought her. Eco Lips has been the first company to market several innovative organic lip care products and packages. With environmental initiatives in place, a focused marketing and sales strategy, award-winning packaging, and a positive work environment, Eco Lips is making its way around the world, one set of lips at a time.
While delivering projects that integrate environmental, social and financial risks and opportunities for organizations, Knowit consultants also try to educate their clients on how digitization can contribute to a circular economy and an enhanced society.