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Happy Place Property Management provides “Happy Places” for “Happy People” to live. Their services involve finding homes to meet their clients’ needs, as well as managing properties for people in the Halifax area. They believe in finding the best tenants for the homes they manage and do so following an innovative business model. Their strategy follows a feeling-based approach that aligns with Economic growth, and Sustainable cities and communities.
Frankie the Fire Truck is an espresso bar food truck located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their innovation and sustainable ways of business are key factors in their implementation of several SDGs, being: Good Health and Well-Being, Affordable Clean Energy, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Climate Action, and Responsible Consumption and Production. This comes from businesses solutions that include being entirely plant-based, solar powered, and remotely located.
EASTND is a modern wellness centre that applies an alternative approach to medicine with support from medical professionals to provide preventative treatment to the communities in Moncton, NB and Charlottetown, PEI. In addition, EASTND is helping break barriers of gender equality, reducing inequalities, providing education, and promoting decent work and economic growth to help create overall sustainable good health and well-being.
Afishionado Fishmongers is devoted to providing sustainable seafood to consumers all across Atlantic Canada. They have decided to follow sustainable fish sourcing practices, using Ocean Wise as an auditor to ensure that all the fish sold is done with Sustainability as its main goal.
Airscoot is an electric scooter rental service based in Halifax, Nova Scotia who has one goal in mind, to provide a clean method of transportation to citizens of busy cities. They strive to contribute to UN SDG #11 by providing affordable and sustainable mobility and #13 by reducing fossil fuel use.
After immigrating to Canada in 2011, Shivani Dhamija founded Shivani's Kitchen in 2014, a Nova Scotian food company producing authentic Indian spices and sauces. Shivani's Kitchen works hard to meet several UN SDG goals, including good health and well-being by providing quality gluten free food with no added preservatives in her products. With the use of reusable glass container packaging instead of the typical plastic, Shivani’s Kitchen meets the SDG goal of responsible consumption and production. Shivani's choices to buy ingredients from local farmers and involve communities through cooking classes, she also meets the SDG goal of sustainable cities and communities.
Keele Warehousing and Logistics is a distribution company started by James Appelbe and Julie Appelbe. This company offers a variety of distribution services, including inventory information upon shipment, activity reports, complete on/off loading and cross-docking of trailers and overseas containers, order-picking, shrink-wrapping, as well as on-site packaging and labeling. They have built themselves up from the ground and become experts at shipping hazardous materials, as well as dry goods, canned food products.
Their innovation is a small coffee roasting company located in Lunenburg, NS that is completely fair trade and organic certified. The company helps make local food and agriculture a priority in Nova Scotia, by participating in farmers markets around the province, partnering with the Ecology Action Center, partnering with local farms, such as Pleasant Hill, and joining a Coffee Cooperative partnering with other small industry innovators, and all with the goal of being carbon neutral by 2030.
Circular Systems combines both innovation and sustainability to create products with a net-positive impact on this world. Through a line of technologies like Agraloop™, Texloop™ and Orbital™, the company is able to transform remnants of food and medicine crops into BioFibre™, create material from textile waste, and produce high-performing materials using organic and recycled fibre. All these advancements are actively contributing to offset the environmental effects of the fashion industry while helping to solve many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially Responsible Consumption and Production.
Clients are given the opportunity to work within several different areas with the hopes that they can gain employment within their community. Employment can be casual, part-time for full-time based on the clients desires.
Mystic Aromatics is a manufacturer of areca-nut based products - Areca Tea, a healthy organic beverage made of areca nut and paper air fresheners made from areca husk and recycled papers. Up until then, areca nut was used only in Gutka production that causes oral cancer. Innovations at Mystic aromatics helped to change the bad reputation associated with areca nut from killer to savior.
The innovation helped farmers to add value to their agricultural produce, gave employment to the underprivileged people, promoted recycling, and finally helped to reduce air pollution in the region.
FlipFarm offers a novel and highly efficient solution to many of the challenges encountered by oyster farmers through a system of interconnected, floating baskets which allow the farmers to access their stock with ease, regardless of tidal conditions. Though there are multiple advantages associated with this system, perhaps the primary one is that many of the labor-intensive tasks are mechanized, significantly enhancing processing efficiency.
CHRISTUS MUGUERZA Hospital Systems through an innovative system with digital transformation improved the administrative and health processes within its 11 hospitals in 7 states of the Mexican Republic.
Crop Swap LA is a social enterprise that aims to eliminate food scarcity, improve nutrition and health, and promote sustainable agriculture by farming unused urban spaces and selling nutrient-dense produce to the local community. The microfarms built by Crop Swap LA are located in urban areas where access to nutritious foods is lacking, which are disproportionately communities of color; these farms create jobs, improve the nutrition of resident customers, and thus strengthen the local economy. By empowering communities of color to take control of their food, Crop Swap is reducing racial inequality in the U.S. agriculture industry and food inequality.
Peeptrade is a financial education platform whose objective is to strengthen financial culture in Mexico, by closing the gap between theory and practice by offering online courses, investment contests and financial analysis tools at an affordable price, it also offers free education content though their social media.
Peeptrade allies with experts and professionals in the financial sector, such as the Mexican Stock Exchange School (Escuela Bolsa Mexicana).
The company values financial education because it is the key to economic growth, reduction of inequality and promotes gender equality
Yema is both a supermarket and a brand of food and skincare products that are made with honesty and quality in mind. Yema has actively created a business network that helps develop responsible consumption and production (UN's 12th goal) by compensating primary producers and farmers fairly, and making products that are simple, understandable, and sustainable. They work to create circular economies in which everything from the making of a product to the recycled packaging, and even making their store a recycling waste recollection center, helps develop a more sustainable community of consumers (UN's 11th goal). To attract customers, they work hard with specialists to develop high quality, healthy, simple, and delicious products that are aimed at individuals who take a healthier approach to their diet and lifestyles (UN's 3rd goal).
CHRISTUS MUGUERZA SISTEMAS HOSPITALARIOS through an innovative and efficient system using digital transformation improved the administrative process and operations within their 11 hospitals in 7 states of Mexico with the objective to become a 100% digital health system. In 2019 the transformation process started in HOSPITAL MUGUERZA SALTILLO. The main objective and masterpiece of all this innovation was to migrate everything to an electronic medical record.
This innovation points directly to ODS number 3 since it improves all the complex processes that exist right now in the health system by providing more safety and quality service to the patient, the medical staff, management and clinical staff. The innovation program that Grupo Muguerza applied to their 11 hospitals is well known as CONECTA SALUD, which consists of an end-to-end digital transformation program from the very first minutes where the patient enters the hospital all the way to discharge.
Recently, in many cities of China , people have been spotting some fresh new light green cars that resemble frogs. The vehicle in question is the D1, a customized ride-hailing car developed by DiDi through a joint venture with the Chinese car manufacturer, BYD. Its small body contains a big dream, representing a remarkable and innovative business model which harmonizes with sustainable development and could help reshape the future of transportation.
The debut of DiDi’s D1 represents the company’s endeavor to establish an all-new ride-hailing ecosystems covering three unique features: customized vehicles, new usage patterns and rapid business evolution. To design the D1, BYD and Didi established a joint venture called Meihao Chuxing (Hangzhou) Automobile Technology Co Ltd in 2019, of which BYD owns 65%, and the controlling interest, while Didi owns the remaining shares. BYD is one of China’s largest privately owned companies, founded in 1995, and has established itself as a pioneer in making rechargeable batteries and providing renewable energy solutions globally. Its Zero Emissions Energy Ecosystem has helped it to become a leader in the energy and transportation industries.