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Jaswig is a company that makes adjustable standing wooden desks. They provide desks that improve health and can even help kids learn more effectively. They use sustainable material meaning their products don't break easily and therefore use less natural resources. Also, the glue and other products are naturally degradable so they do no warm to the environment.
Due to the lack of trained physicians, Boston Scientific supports a Continuing Medical Education Program. The company established a grant program with a five year commitment and with no business contracts attached. The program has so far resulted in generating additional 60 trained Interventional Cardiologist in Indonesia.
Virtuous Bread aims to make it fun and easy for people around the world to buy, make, learn about, share and eat good bread. This allows a link to be created between eating good bread and doing good things. As Jane Mason, founder and director of Virtuous Bread states, "bread is used as a catalyst for social change." She achieves this by teaching bread making courses, helping organize home and community bread baking businesses, and baking with various groups such as disadvantaged youth, prisoners, elderly, and business executives in order to bring people together around the table and find common grounds through the bread making experience.
Book & Plow believes strongly in long-term sustainability of the land and farm. For the past three years the Book and Plow Farm has been using Organic practices, extensive cover cropping, applying compost, and developing ways to increase soil health and the surrounding ecology.
Janicki Bioenergy's revolutionary Omni Processor combines waste treatment, energy generation, and potable water creation into a single process. This innovation allows cost effective, environmentally friendly, and decentralized waste treatment for developing countries or high waste industries and converts an expensive process into a source of revenue.
In a city which cherishes its old world European charm while incorporating the modern advances of North American cities, Montreal is the perfect epicenter for Teo, an all-electric taxi company. With its easy-to-use mobile application, this company has improved the way Montrealers and tourists alike move around the city.
Cotopaxi is an outdoor adventure company that has recently developed the Kusa Collection, a line of apparel whose insulation is made of recyclable poly-blend materials and llama fibers. The llama hair is sourced from Bolivian farmers, providing them with decent work as well as education on ways to sustain their source of income. The entire supply chain in Bolivia works to improve the well-being of the animals and workers involved, while decreasing the environmental impact of production.
SunCulture aims to create a new investment class by empowering poor farmers to increase their annual crop yield by using the AgroSolar kit. This kit utilizes a solar-powered water pump to fill an above-ground water tank which then provides water to crops via a gravity-fed drip irrigation system. This system significantly reduces irrigation costs while also providing higher yield and additional growing seasons to farmers in Kenya.
Platform Beer Co. in Cleveland is supporting upcoming brewers by providing access to their infrastructure and providing the unique opportunity to participate in a full-fledged brewery incubator program free of charge. This allows the brewer to learn the ins and outs of the business should they aspire to open their own brewery.
"Healthy people, sustainable planet" is the ambition of Philips for 2020. This story profiles a business model developed by Philips based on a circular economy that enables Philips to increase the effectiveness of material use and to develop green innovation in its products. The overall impacts from this innovation helps build a healthier society and sustainable planet.
FoodState is in the business of improving lives by staying true to the intention of food. Their passion for burgeoning wellness lifestyle practices is so innate that the business judges its performance by counting, reporting, tracking, and forecasting the number of lives improved monthly, year-to-date, and historically as well as approaching decision making through this lens. Their innovative Slo-Food Process makes FoodState the only company in the food supplement space that is wholly vertically integrated. The Slo-Food Process, coined fresh from farm to tablet, has embedded sustainability at each step, with respect to human prosperity and environmental appreciation, and prides itself on “Big T” transparency, establishing a scalable and replicable innovation.
A regional grocer in the US is helping make its communities healthier by changing the perspective of how their customers shop for their food. Heinen's Fine Foods, based in Cleveland, OH, is taking a vested interest in the health of their customers by providing wellness consultants that can assist shoppers is making healthier eating choices by informing them of healthier alternatives offered by Heinen's and assisting in creating shopping plans for people with specific dietary needs.
Rustbelt Reclamation, a locally-based Cleveland, Ohio company, has revolutionized the field of upcycled, handcrafted furniture. They took what was historically an artisan practice and applied innovative changes to the existing processes to scale up the designing and manufacturing of furniture and cabinetry from reclaimed materials. Rustbelt Reclamation is saving hundreds of thousands of linear feet of lumber from landfills annually, they are saving existing hardwoods from destruction, and they are redefining the way people look at furnishings made from reclaimed materials.
Conscious Step is a sock company that promotes fair trade practices through manufacturing and offers consumers the opportunity to support initiatives that promote the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Each sock correlates to a specific initiative. A portion of the proceeds is donated to a partnering non-profit and in turn gives consumers the opportunity to support a cause that is meaningful to them.
Mevion expanded the use of proton therapy for cancer treatment. Their innovation of super conducting magnet has increased efficiencies in proton therapy while making it more compact and cost effective, ultimately making cancer treatment more accessible.
PackH2O is designed to help solve the issue of lack of drinking water for people living in water stressed communities or in regions of disasters. Water, a basic need for human beings, can also be a medium to spread waterborne diseases and to impact health. By providing clean water to stressed communities, 210,000 PackH2Os have benefited more than 105,000 lives in 35 countries across the world.
Elithis is a consulting and engineering group that is dedicated to delivering energy efficiency solutions to all building sectors in regions across France. Most notably, Elithis has implemented positive energy and neutral carbon emissions in its own Elithis Tower, as well as the Elithis Danube Tower – the first positive energy residential building.
Paint Shield is an innovation by Sherwin-Williams that helps to reduce the spread of infectious diseases by killing 99.9% of bacteria, including Staph, MRSA, E. coli, VRE, and Enterobacter Aerogenes within two hours of contact with the painted surface. Sherwin-Williams is a global manufacturer of paints and coatings and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tunnel Vision Hoops designs and manufactures greenhouse structures with offerings that are unique to city and urban areas. Unlike their competitors, they construct a more high-strength and durable design built to withstand the most inclement weather and offer growers the ability to cultivate year-round and explore new terrain.
BrightFarms, Inc. is an agricultural company based out of New York City that finances, builds, and manages hydroponic greenhouses located near urban centers. The innovation that BrightFarms has created is a cutting-edge business model by pairing locally-installed greenhouses with exclusive purchasing agreements between those greenhouses and nearby grocery stores. BrightFarms ensures that the food they produce gets to the customers as quickly as possible in order to cut down on the impact of food transportation and increase the freshness of the produce while ensuring the greenhouses are subject to less risk.