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Dairy has a significant carbon footprint. According to the EPA, agriculture is the source of ten percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Of that ten percent, over a quarter of it is driven by livestock and their production of methane as part of normal digestive processes. As a result, Horizon is focused on being a part of the solution, not the problem. The Horizon Next Frontier Project acts on advancing the positive impacts of organic dairy.
Simplicity, joy, and above all affordability: with this simple strategy, SunCommon has grown renewable energy in Vermont and New York from a curiosity into a thriving business. Beyond acting as a compelling sales proposition, these core values have become central to their operations and are simply “how they roll.”
While the world’s most important works of fine art are the opposite of single-use, carefully cycled through the hands of multiple owners and preserved for posterity, the materials employed to safely pack and ship artworks around the globe are decidedly throw-away. Inordinate amounts of wood, cardboard, plastic, foam and tape are used to build sturdy, high-quality art crates that are used once and then discarded. Turtle uNLtd is changing the game in art packing, developing an innovative reusable art crate that provides best-in-class protection for art while reducing waste and saving trees. Consequently, Turtle uNLtd tackles SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
4ocean is on a mission to end the ocean plastic crisis by promoting responsible consumption and production on land. The company also looks to maintain healthy oceans by cleaning waste in communities heavily impacted by single-use plastic. Subsequently, maintaining healthy oceans supports 4ocean in reaching its goal of mitigating climate change.
Harvest is a new franchise of eateries currently located in the municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their business model revolves around sustainable and locally sourced ingredients that they use to create top-quality menu items. The co-founders of Harvest realized there was a lack of sustainably sourced business models in the service industry, and took it into their own hands to start growing their own crops out of hydroponic farms for their farm-to-table eatery. Harvest works to solve the SDGs of good health and well-being, responsible consumption and production, and climate action while working to inspire the rest of Atlantic Canada to do so as well.
This innovation is a new way of farming: Bioponics much better. It is the farming of the future because you can farm in the city center, close to the customer. You can also produce more because plants are grown vertically.
JianJing's real estate model manufacturing can give consumers a more intuitive understanding of real estate, thereby stimulating consumer consumption. At the same time, the ideal model of real estate can also attract more investment for uncompleted real estate, thereby stimulating economic growth. At the same time, the city exhibition hall that JianJing is responsible for, as the city planning hall, is a comprehensive exhibition building that integrates planning, display, culture, education, and leisure. It can allow tourists and local citizens to better understand the city’s culture and allow people to participate in it. In the sustainable development of the city.
The innovation is designed to improve the lives of young people in Ghana, West Africa and to create opportunities for them by collaborating with the government, the business segment, and the private sector at large, in addition to generating jobs, empowering young people, women, and girls to alleviate poverty.
Finally, they strive to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
The Project Manager for the UNFPA Youth Leaders Fellowship Program (YoLe), Michael Ige, explains that “in today’s rapidly changing world, innovation, creativity, and technology are essential to meet the needs of young people and help them to embrace innovation to deliver transformative results.”
CuidaMED is a project that is developed in the health sector, it focuses on one of the most vulnerable groups within the sector, the elderly, people with a chronic degenerative disease, with different disabilities or a considerable medical condition. The project has helped many people in Mexico who have lived under these unfavorable conditions. CuidaMED focuses mainly on one of the 17 SDGs, "health and well-being" which has shown an improvement in the quality of medical care for the users of this product when it is needed, giving in the family members involved.
New Belgium Brewery was founded in March 1991 by Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch after being inspired during a bike ride through Belgium in 1988; bringing back Belgian flavors to their hometown in Fort Collins, Colorado. “Environmental stewardship was a founding core value of the company 30 years ago and so it's been part of our DNA and something we've prioritized since day one,” says Sarah Fraser, New Belgium Sustainability Specialist.
BOHECO says that “Educate, Cultivate, Elevate” are the primary drivers of their business. These three words help them achieve their mission, which is to advocate the societal benefits of industrial hemp. The company was founded at a time when hemp crops were treated as a garden weed amongst farmers and regularly destroyed to cultivate more meaningful crops. After empirical research, BOHECO developed sustainable solutions and processes to regulate hemp farming, organize the farming sector and create sustainable products. Through this, they are targeting four SDG’s: Decent work and economic growth, Industry innovation and infrastructure, Reduced inequalities, and Responsible Consumption and Production.
New Orleans-based coffee company, HEY Coffee Co., is dedicated to making a difference in their community and the future of their environment. HEY Coffee Co. is committed to sustainably sourcing their coffee, advocating for environmentally friendly business practices, and supporting their community like their community. HEY Coffee Co.'s creative culture, use of pasta straws, removal of trash cans in their business, and increase in composting has helped fuel the growing green initiative in their community.
Sustainable Threads is primarily a fair trade, sustainability-focused textiles company promoting handmade lifestyle products, carefully co-designed with artisan partners in India. Traditional art techniques are used to craft a line of products ranging from kitchen rugs, table runners, bedding sheets, and so forth. Sustainable Threads is also an approved member of the Fair-Trade Federation and Green America, with both being nonprofit membership organizations for nonprofit organizations. 330 women are now working in the group where every employee is treated like they are the co-owner of the company. They all get paid for every piece of clothing they make, and, by the end of the year, they equally share the profits amongst all. From this, the company places emphasis on employee empowerment, instead of corporate greed. Moreover, they promote the empowerment of women and those who are physically challenged. Part of Sustainable Threads’ mission is also to give back to those who are physically challenged. They do so by employing them and giving them opportunities to work at the company so they are able to support themselves and their children. Sustainable Threads has a similar mission to Patagonia in regards to climate change. They look towards achieving environmental sustainability and helping underprivileged communities by utilizing natural fibers and refraining from using any man-made, petrochemical products as they can be harmful to the environment. Everything is hand-made as well, with no use of electricity or power, which promotes sustainability. The distribution model at Sustainable Threads is at the wholesale level, where they supply retailers with their products; however, they do plan to restructure and additionally operate as a retailer in the future as well.
Karma is a tech startup that was created in Stockholm, Sweden in 2016. The company has rapidly expanded to 225 cities with the support of 9200 resellers and 1,400,000 users. The Karma app primarily connects restaurants with surplus food to customers who love a good deal. One-third of all food in the world gets wasted annually, and Karma is creatively offsetting this $1.2 trillion problem. President Obama has endorsed the company by announcing that they are “creating the first zero food waste generation.”
The idea of Atomic Sierra began in May of 2020. Ms. Jaqua was originally an avid blogger, typically focusing on sustainability and health-related topics. COVID-19's worldwide shock provided some clarity for the founder's future goals. The entrepreneurship major wanted to create a product that combined her love for the planet and fashion and was determined to stop at nothing until that goal came to fruition.
Described as a "go-getter", Ms. Jaqua worked countless hours at Amazon during the height of the pandemic. Once enough money was saved, Ms. Jaqua heightened her networking skills among her colleagues. She enlisted photographers, models, and consultants from Western Michigan University and beyond.
The business locally sources chickpeas from small-scale Guatemalan farmers which provides them with stable income directly promoting SDG 1 where they reduce poverty and help put an end to emigration of these farmers. Chickpea production also provides more nutrients to consumers than Guatemala's primary crop—corn, enabling them to battle Guatemala's problem of malnutrition.
It arises from the need to create a difference before its competitors and take the seal of the Puebla’s Talavera further, since it was losing its essence due to emerging new forms of production, seeking cost reduction in the manufacturing process and trying to get future economic benefits.
Natur All produces Bio and natural products that also help to advance SDGs: Good Health, Responsible Consumption and Life on Land. Good Health and Responsible Consumption with their bio and natural products and life on land with out killing animals.
Good Health because there are studies that confirm that eating natural food and vegan diet report that it is healthier compared to fast food.
Responsible Consumption as implementing natural food to a diet will mean that obesity around the world will decrease.
Lastly, Life on Land because Natur All wants to develop these products without the milk of cows. Working with cows mean that they create a very big footprint in our planet which is causing some of the current pollution problems.
UMass Women’s Basketball is working to accomplish several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will make the world a better place. For example, the main focus of their new program innovation is to provide the women with quality education, good health and well-being, and the tools to lead them to access decent work and economic growth.