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Stemming the tide of brain drain requires a deep commitment on many parts — a talented national having a promising opportunity, talented foreign nationals wanting to repatriate, and thriving organizations in which a person’s experiences and competencies align with corporate goals and culture. Global-Lights is just such a professional match-maker aiming to improve the Moroccan economy through multinational firms located there and Anglo-educated young professional Moroccans seeking corporate careers within their homeland. This is a boom for a niche market.
1. As a social enterprise, the business model of Gandang Kalikasan, Inc. is pro-poor, pro-environment and pro-Philippines. More than half of the company's workforce, approximately 500 employees, come from rural villages across the country. This is to help their families back home to have a better quality of life and sustainable source of income. The company is focused in expanding more natural products in the pipeline and helps the Philippines in a broader scope by exporting naturally grown products to ASEAN and other regions.
2. The first and only Philippine personal care brand that produces all natural products and is a certified member of Natural Products Association (NPA) in the USA. The certification of NPA given to Gandang Kalikasan, Inc., is an affirmation of the company's ability to produce world-class, safe and natural products to its consumers, both locally and globally.
3. Radical innovation on Human Resource business practices. The company values the significance of PEOPLE in the organization. The design and implementation of its HR policies gives a high regard to humility and self-development.
EcoZoom Mexico is an innovative project created to help poor people in Mexico. The idea came in response to a need for clean stoves as championed by the "Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves", which was created by the UN. The project is focused on the creation of stoves that reduce fuel consumption, emissions, indoor air pollution, are safe to use, and can to cook two dishes and tortillas at the same time. The stoves are designed products that improve communities’ health, income, and environment. EcoZoom teach representatives how to use and install the stoves. This project is unique since it is teaching communities the importance of sustainability by reducing smoke emissions by up to 70% while reducing fuel usage by up to 60%.
Bank Danamon, thorugh the Danamon Peduli Foundation, launched a Corporate Social Responsibility program called "Pasar Sejahtera" aimed at improving the cleanliness, hygiene, and performance quality of traditional wet markets, and also to improve capacity building of Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises throughout traditional markets in Indonesia. This program creates sustainable development of the marketplace community; at the end improved lifestyle and in turn can generate wealth for the community.
The traditional market is part of the history of Indonesian civilization and population. Further, it is also a public place where the majority of the population meet each other on daily basis. In the suburbs, traditional markets are the backbone of the local economy.
Most traditional wet markets are dirty and unpleasant, especially in the area of meat and fish stalls. Cleanliness and hygiene factors are overlooked and make people nowadays reluctant to visit traditional markets anymore.
“Over the past few years, the traditional markets have been facing severe competition from the modern retail shops — swalayan, supermarkets and mini markets. There was no other way to survive, except to strengthen the traditional market’s competitive edge by improving its conditions, such as cleanliness, hygiene, and convenience,” said Mrs Restu Pratiwi, The Executive Director – Danamon Peduli Foundation.
Assisting groups/organizations to farm in creative ways by utilizing unused space by means of rooftop and raised beds within an urban setting. Green City Growers engages in sustainability efforts through using materials within the US, and more specifically this company works hard to keep their suppliers within New England region as much as possible. Gardens do not have to be contained to suburban areas and Green City Growers works with educational, corporate, and residential settings.
Coconut shells are an abundant waste product found throughout Indonesia. Through years of research and experimentation, Gustinov, a local man from Yogyakarta and CEO founder of Cocofarma, has managed to create and commercialize a liquid smoke product from coconut shells. This product is beneficial to farmers and also non-toxic for the environment.
OLX Indonesia is a free e-commerce platform that facilitates C2C trading in second hand goods with a vision of doing good for people. Their goal is to improve the lives of millions of Indonesian people through win-win cooperation.
The company has created a sustainable business that is flourishing for others.
Moving far beyond paper and plastic, TerraCycle recycles materials ranging from snack wrappers to action figures. The company’s innovative Brigade programs connect companies and consumers in working together to collect specific waste streams for recycling. In addition to providing significant environmental benefits, these programs remind consumers to consider waste in their purchasing decisions.
Naturepedic produces healthy, hand-made, organic mattresses. They have eliminated all potential hazardous materials from their products and used innovative materials to provide waterproofing for children's mattresses. The company prides itself on providing comfort and safety for children and parents alike.
Serralles Rum Distillery in Puerto Rico has come up with a novel way to deal with left over water and organic material from their distillation processes. In past years, they would dump the left over mash into nearby sugar cane fields. However, as sugar cane production moved out of Puerto Rico, the water began to have trouble percolating into the ground and created harm to the environment and local communities. To address this problem Serralles developed a sustainability process to address their water issue, and also began to address other environmental issues such as their CO2 emissions, waste produced by packaging, and others.
Verdant Power systems employ underwater turbines to generate clean energy from the currents of tides, rivers and man made channels. The systems are invisible from shore and do not require dams, impoundments or major civil works.
General Electric (GE) Healthcare, a subsidiary of GE, has collaborated with a multitude of organizations to create a Magnetic Resonance (MR) machine designed for the National Football League (NFL) to detect concussions. I was fortunate enough to talk with Barry Black, a key innovator and head in the MR division at GE in Milwaukee about this innovation and its future implications for not only the NFL but for multitudes of people worldwide. In fact, one of the leading problems in road traffic accidents is concussions. Concussions, as an invisible injury, often leads to neurological problems and unpredictable deaths. With the ongoing concussion research and the creation of this device, many lives would be saved. This work by GE impacts the UN's goal to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020. I was also fortunate enough to gain additional insights of this work from a GE engineer perspective via Namratha Reganti.
Zhizun liquid laundry is the most innovative and most hyper-concentrated liquid laundry detergent of China Bluemoon Company Ltd. Compared with the traditional liquid detergent, it helps consumers save more water and electricity. If all Chinese consumers were to use hyper-concentrated liquid detergent rather than normal detergent, they could save 1.74 million tons (385,191 lb) of CO2 emission, 8.5 billion kWh of electricity, and 2.42 million tons (5,070 billion lb) of wasted water.
Global Prairie is a Marketing Agency with a goal of creating sustainability through their innovative business model. This story talks about how this company meets UN Global Sustainability Goal 17 "Partnership for goals".
The innovation lies in the business model, wherein Global Prairie caters only to a niche segment of clients whose businesses improve the health of people, communities, and the environment. Additionally, Global Prairie donates 10% of their annual revenue to community and causes that they are the most passionate about. As a general idea, Global Prairie believes, "To do good by being good."
Watermelon Water, WTRMLN WTR, founded by Jody Levi and Harlan Berger in 2013, is a company which collects blemished yet edible watermelons from farmers to produce watermelon water. By doing so, the company is able to reduce the food waste in production and supply chains, turn farmers' losses into their profits, and introduce beneficial watermelon water to the U.S.
Since Fuji Xerox executed their "Zero Landfill Product Initiative" program in 2004, 99.5% of their products are being recycled or reused. By collecting customer's used products, Fuji Xerox has established a recycling system in every branch in the Asia-Pacific region; accomplishing zero landfills, no pollution, and no illegal disposal.
Forus Health is Bangalore based health care enterprise that is redefining the medical device industry in India. It is producing affordable eye care equipment at a fraction of the cost of similar products marketed by major multinationals. Their recent and most advanced innovation is 3Nethro Neo, a handheld probe that helps in diagnosis and monitoring of Retinopathy of Prematurity.
El Houssaine Ichen founded and manages "Disabled Tourist Guide" in a culture that shuns people with physical or mental handicaps. El Houssaine's ambition is simultaneously to open Morocco's beauty to all who may be interested in experiencing it, and to increase Moroccans' awareness to the society's workplace discrimination against people with disabilities. He uses his own disability as a source of inspiration to others.
League Network was established as a platform to provide assistance to youth sport league managers in fundraising, as well as maintaining a well-managed organization.