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On every cutting of material, Tulisan always tends to make it efficient in any possible way. They also use recycled material for their inner materials. But there's more innovation in colouring sections.
Riverhead Building Supply is a provider of premium building materials and services. Their Human Resources department is currently converting all employee files to an online format in order to eliminate paper and waste, which connects to Goal 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities and Goal 12 Responsible Consumption & Production.
Grove Collaborative was created in 2012 with the simple yet powerful mission of selling sustainable, healthy, and planet-friendly products for both the body and home. All products sold by Grove Collaborative -- whether they are a house brand or a third party brand-- must meet the company’s four point standard of being “uncompromisingly healthy, beautifully effective, ethically produced and cruelty free” before they can be sold on the Grove Collaborative website. Grove Collaborative is sticking to its stance on creating products for a cleaner environment with their Beyond Plastic pledge, which is driven by their mission to go plastic-free by the year 2025.
This business approaches different issues regarding refugee integration. They do so by combining efforts in politics, economics, trainings, and empowerment, all to support refugee and immigrant women. Most organizations only focus on one or two, but not all. On top of that, there are no organizations that provide paid advocacy, job training, and community organizing all at the same time. A notable aspect that makes Havenly stand out is their focus on providing opportunities specifically for women, recognizing the intersectional oppression this particular group faces.
Primary Goal: SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Secondary Goal: SDG 4 - Quality Education
Bethel Academy aims for decent work for its employees that will lead to a more stable economic growth. This means that the Bethel Academy would focus on delivering a fair income, social protection and allow flexibility of working arrangements for the educators and hours. This strongly promotes labor rights and a secure working environment.
Concerning decent work and economic growth, this movement would allow Bethel Academy to continue achieving quality education for its students. Paying educators with competitive salaries would improve the recruitment and retention of Bethel's high-quality teachers. By making structural changes in salary programs to invest in the foundations of quality teaching, Bethel could now widen the profile of who can be considered as educators. Choosing qualified educators is significant because they have a lifelong impact on all of their students, not only on the academic skills but also on the students’ self-esteem that would affect motivation and learning.
SouvlakiGR attempts to solve the UN SDGs' goal of sustainable consumption. To ensure sustainable consumption, they are strong believers in prevention, reduction, recycling, and reusing. They also attempt to achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
When one hears the word “sustainability”, a few things such as water consumption, fast fashion and food waste come to mind, but never toilet paper. It's safe to say there isn’t enough awareness in our everyday lives about the impact its production has on the environment. To quote Alex Crumbie of Ethical Consumer (2019), “there is no need to cut down forest to make toilet rolls, yet this is precisely what is happening.”
And so, The Good Roll to the rescue! Distinctive in their humour and personality, one can’t help but be curious about the team behind their quirkiness.
Earth & Me, launched by founder Kayli Kunkel, is a zero-waste store that sells eco-friendly, everyday items such as home goods, beauty products, and more at affordable prices. Kayli focuses on a philosophy that highlights purpose, packaging, and people. She uses her business to help fulfill goals of sustainability and environmental justice.
The proposal of 3C is disruptive innovation that builds houses with reused PET and polyethylene waste through a mixed construction method, resulting in finished houses similar to conventional ones, with high thermal insulation and fire resistance.
The business is also socially innovative, as it is implemented through solid partnerships, between 3C, NGOs and cooperatives, as well as with municipalities, neighborhoods and universities.
Through these alliances, 3C helps reducing poverty and plastic pollution as well as the use of water and energy in the construction industry and in the operation of buildings.
As KoKo celebrates its anniversary, the company is expanding its Greener Cafe Framework to help reduce its environmental impact and leverage its scale for good to accelerate the global movement towards a more sustainable future. KoKo is opening its first Greener Cafe in Shanghai, China, focusing on circularity. The Shanghai Greener Cafe, designed and built to reduce waste, repurpose goods and serve as a platform for future innovation. The Shanghai Greener Cafe is the first KoKo store in the Chinese mainland to use recycled and lower-impact building materials such as wood reclaimed from the renovation of other KoKo stores. It's believed that many aspects of the store interior could be recycled, upcycled, or biodegraded. "The Greener Cafe is a laboratory for us to explore new approaches to green retail and an invitation to a greener future sent to KoKo customers." Ming Li, the assistant store manager of KoKo Greener Cafe in Shanghai, said, "We hope to put creative ideas into practice for store sustainability, sharing new lifestyles with our customers here. Co-creating with like-minded teams to inspire more people and make the planet a better place for our next generation."
Redwood Materials is a Northern Nevada based company and among one of the first to develop a method to recycle lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are found in electric vehicles and other everyday items; these batteries do not last forever and eventually end up in landfills, which is where J.B. Straubel saw the need for innovation. We interviewed Alexis Georgeson at Redwood Materials to discuss how they aim to recycle the batteries and create a circular supply chain in order to lessen the negative environmental impact, turn waste into profit, and overall contribute to a more sustainable future.
Finding new and better ways of doing things is a priority for GrandyOats. They strive to make their products not only healthier for the people that consume them, but also for the people that cultivate and provide the ingredients, and the earth itself. Through the establishment of organic products, to the current progress of fair-trade certifications and compostable packaging, GrandyOats has put their best foot forward to be a leading actor in innovation.
The Miami Marlins organization and Foundation are businesses based upon the prosperity of the greater Miami area, their baseball culture, educating the community, and supplying sustainable resources for overall growth. The Miami Marlins is a baseball franchise originally founded in 1991 that then entered the Major League Baseball Organization (MLB) in 1993. They have many different sources of income, but the main goals and initiatives of the organization go beyond the ballpark. Their innovation is not based on the field or in the dugout, but rather their overall investment in building a better community, creating better business and player role modeling for the future, and introducing better life skills and educational opportunities. The Marlins organization has gone through many changes within overall ownership and management, but their most important impact and point of opportunity is partnering with their fans and culture. Their plan of impact is to build a better future and society for their family and home regions, which will in turn create a more positive sports culture and source of living for growth. Their means of providing these goals are through baseball/education academies, local and international food drives, and breaking the gender barrier for business on all levels with strong role models and resources.
The Ana + Zac store is on the verge of creating sustainable communities by spreading the magic of sustainable clothing by incorporating the “slow fashion” model in their conventional business model.
Lenco's main goal is to provide a high quality and extensive test menu with state-of-the-art equipment to members of the community.
TerraCycle believes that waste can be recycled and in some cases even reused. The company’s innovation comes from being able to collect, sort, and process waste that would normally be sent to landfills. This ensures that products such as used sauce packets, toothbrushes or used juice pouches find a new purpose all while reducing landfills. They do recycling differently by not only reusing waste but also creating new products from them that can be sold to the public.
Macy's has an important focus on responsible consumption. They have increased their overall recycling rate to 80%. They have increased their selling of sustainable textiles and clothing. They have also worked towards decreasing their energy consumption and using solar energy as a means of renewable energy.
Ms. Lopez stated that most people who would like to eat healthy foods could not do so due to the high prices of healthy food options. She sought to solve the problem by targeting the often-underserved population of young people in colleges and busy businesses' employees. She mentioned that, "Making healthy foods more accessible to this population required going to the customers hence the decision to use food trucks instead of opening a physical location and waiting for the customers to find it."
For our AIM2Flourish story, we interviewed Bob Byrns, who is the Vice-President of Marketing and Sales for Paulist Press. Paulist Press is a Catholic Book Publishing company that has been around since the mid-1800s. As the book publishing industry continues to transition to digital, Bob sat down and spoke with us about the company and that process.
Paulist Press is a fascinating book company that goes beyond the traditional aspects of most book businesses. The company based its traditions on the Paulist Fathers, established by and for the purpose of Americans, consisting of a society of missionary priests. The focus of Paulist Press carries on the legacy of the Paulist Fathers by spreading the word of Jesus through American Catholicism. Back in 1858, the Paulist Fathers operated within public lecture halls. Today, Paulist Press advances to turn this way of life into a full-blown digital and physical print book company.
"By restoring and repurposing the things that we do already have, especially large items like chairs, bed frames, and doors, we are able to save that piece from the landfill while also reducing the demand for the materials and labor that would go into producing a new one." They also take what many would consider scraps and try to find applications for it. This is an incredibly unique and sustainability-supporting skill that has saved over 2,000 pounds of wood.