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The Waste Lab is a women-owned Dubai-based startup that aims to rescue food scraps from going to waste and find. This business is tackling the following UN SDGs goals: 11,12,13 and 15.
Green Scoop’s business model is an innovation in itself. Jendell, the business owner, defines her business as two-part: 1) Pet waste removal and 2) Recycling and energy creation. There are a lot of pet waste removal businesses around the country and this isn't a new concept. But Green Scoop goes beyond other ordinary businesses and recycles pet waste to create energy. It has leveraged a local bio-facility to utilize the pet waste and not dump it in landfill.
Food-ATM supports industries by catering to their low-waged employees through the innovative Food-ATM card. These unique cards are given free of charge to every employee, hold a set number of meals that can be redeemed at their workplace once they receive the meal.
The affordability and the delivery of the meals contribute to the ‘No poverty and Zero hunger’ SDGs. The nutritional value and the quantity of the meals provided contribute to the ‘Good health and well-being’ SDG. The utilization of the Food-ATM cards ensures that meals are produced exactly as needed with no excess or wastages which contributes to the ‘Responsible Consumption & Production’ SDG.
In 2014 Philip Morris International introduced a new product, which literally changed the tobacco industry. IQOS is a tobacco heating system which releases 95% less harmful substances when smoked than an ordinary cigarette. Along with creating less harmful products, PMI also successfully solves issues of social well-being, eco-friendly behavior and cooperation.
In order to achieve the UN SDG 3 “Good Health and Well-Being,” Ancor takes care of the physical conditions of its employees, therefore it installs such devices as humidifiers. Moreover, Ancor is responsible for the mental health of their workers, that is why in the company there are a corporate psychologist and yoga practices. Now the company is piloting an application for the company’s employees that will help to manage stress and healthy sleep.
For Volkswagen, sustainability means pursuing economic, social and ecological objectives simultaneously and with equal energy. Volkswagen will use to constantly monitor its performance year round. That way, environmental performance becomes a constant concern and not something that gets attention only during reporting time. As a result, SDG 13 Climate Action was identified as the primary goal, followed by five further goals that were classified as priorities: SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy.
Claudia García Jaramillo y María Cabal fundadoras de la empresa venían trabajando con diferentes comunidades principalmente con la del Salado, desde el año 2009, a través, de una fundación en el cual desarrollaron diferentes proyectos sociales, enfocados en la población, como la recuperación del territorio, sus actividades ancestrales y su reorganización como sociedad. La tienda de la empatía llegó a principios de agosto de 2020, cuando el confinamiento era una de las tantas medidas adoptadas por el Gobierno Nacional para mitigar el impacto del Covid-19. “Surgió como respuesta al clamor de las comunidades con el fin de vender sus productos sin intermediarios.” señaló una de las colaboradoras de la empresa: Ana María Castro. Desde entonces, la Tienda de la empatía a través su página web ofrece los productos de estas comunidades con el valor agregado de que va acompañado con la historia de su fabricación y/o de su fabricador. Hoy son aproximadamente 65 comunidades que se ven beneficiadas directamente con la comercialización de sus mercancías
La tienda se encarga de la distribución de los productos los cuales son elaborados por artesanos, campesinos, comunidades indígenas y afros, ellos elaboran instrumentos, alimentos, artesanías, tapabocas, accesorios, hechos con material reciclado, hamacas y muchos otros productos, que se pueden encontrar en la página web https://latiendadelaempatia.com/ como lo indicaba Ana maría son un conjunto articulado donde las comunidades se benefician económicamente pero a su vez resaltan su cultura mejorando así la calidad de vida
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Claudia García Jaramillo and María Cabal, founders of the company, had been working with different communities, mainly with the Salado community, since 2009, through a foundation in which they developed different social projects focused on the population, such as the recovery of the territory, their ancestral activities and their reorganization as a society. The empathy store arrived in early August 2020, when the confinement was one of the many measures adopted by the National Government to mitigate the impact of Covid-19. "It arose as a response to the clamor of the communities in order to sell their products without intermediaries." pointed out by one of the company's collaborators, Ana María Castro. Since then, the Empathy Store, through its website, offers the products of these communities with the added value that is accompanied with the history of its manufacture and / or its manufacturer. Today there are approximately 65 communities that benefit directly from the commercialization of their merchandise.
The store is responsible for the distribution of products which are made by artisans, farmers, indigenous and Afro communities. They make instruments, food, crafts, moccasins, accessories, made from recycled material, hammocks and many other products, which can be found on the website https://latiendadelaempatia.com. As indicated by Ana Maria, there is an articulated set where communities benefit economically but in turn highlight their culture thus improving the quality of life.
Session Groceries shows how a business can integrate technology into the agriculture sector. To support its advocacy for the empowerment and upliftment of the lives of local farmers, the company developed a mobile application that features their produce. The online community of advocates shows their support by having their fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to their doorstep. As such, a closer-knit relationship is developed between the farmers and consumers.
Rishi is a sustainable clothing brand founded by Margarita Reznikova, an entrepreneur in St Petersburg. Margarita employed between 3 and 7 people to create sustainable clothing under the brand Rishi. Their brand concept, based on reusing former clothes to create new ones, is called upcycling. The purpose is to make new products without using any new materials, and according to Cosmopolitan, it was the first Russian company to use this business model. This business is thus sustainable in two ways- it aims to have green cloth production by using materials that already exist and also to change what fashion is today in its customers' minds by creating unique, timeless, and solid clothes. The business was founded by Margarita Reznikova and her associate Julia Kisseler in July 2020, and just after a month, the first collection launched in August 2020. The Rishi brand developed quickly. Their business is just one and a half years old when writing the story. The brand has its website and retail shops in Moscow and St Petersburg, almost 3000 subscribers on Instagram, and several publications have written about them.
Foxford introduced business model which allows the company always to develop the quality of provided education and, in the same time, influence the education system in the whole country. Foxford offers free educational courses for pupils, collect important feedback from parents and students, organize conferences with the participation of teachers and parents to discuss education problems. These features contribute to the fact that other educational organizations also improve the quality of their services to maintain competition. Moreover, the quality level of students from each region of Russia is starting to be on the same rate, because now the people from remote areas have the opportunity to study by the same high quality standards as pupils from the Central area of Russia do.
Circular brand is a new business model to trade clothes doing it through a virtual shop offering products for daily use. This company has as a goal to be sustainable and collaborate with some problems designing products from sources 100% eco-friendly. Its products are one-size seeking to generate awareness regarding exclusion because of size, age or style.
Finally, solving the huge problem of slavery. Circular Brand emerged while Maria Paula was studying for her Masters. She points out that in her entrepreneurship "... my workers and providers generate responsibility and good working conditions always respecting human beings and the environment. I am doing this, choosing sustainable materials and paying fair and worthy prices closing the breach in this sense".
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Circular Brand, es nuevo modelo de negocio para comercialización de la ropa, lo hace a través de una tienda virtual ofreciendo productos de vestir y de uso diario con el objetivo de ser una empresa sostenible y colaborar con la solución de algunas problemáticas, confeccionando prendas, a partir de insumos 100% amigables con el medio ambiente, sus creaciones son de talla única lo que busca generar conciencia frente a temas de exclusión en relación con la talla, la edad o el estilo.
Finalmente, soluciona un problema de gran envergadura, como lo es la esclavitud, Circular Brand, María Paula, al estudiar este punto en su Maestría señala que su emprendmiento “(...) apunto a que mis trabajadores y proveedores generen responsabilidad y trabajen en condiciones dignas y siempre respetando al ser humano y al medio ambiente, lo hago escogiendo materiales responsables y pagando con precios justos y dignos, cerrando la brecha en este sentido (...)”
Wikkel House is a pentagon-shaped house with a unique design made of cardboard and sustainably built to last. It is built and designed by the people of Fiction Factory, a construction firm in Amsterdam. ‘Wikkelen’ means wrapping in Dutch, which is how Wikkel House earned its name.
Adriana dice: “cuando yo era chiquita mi papá decía “hacen de todo en el mundo, inventan miles de cosas pero nunca hacen tierra donde sembrar”, recientemente Adriana le dijo a su papá: “si ves que sí se puede hacer tierra”.
Eco Poop surge de la necesidad de crear soluciones en los hogares con mascotas ya que sus excrementos generan patógenos que afectan la salud de las personas. Asimismo, según un informe del 2019 de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, las heces de las mascotas contribuyen a la contaminación de ríos y quebradas, y producen carbono que incrementa el calentamiento global.
Adriana señala que el “80% de las familias en Colombia tienen mascota”. Los excrementos de animales contienen virus y bacterias que afectan principalmente a aquellos que permanecen más tiempo en una unidad residencial (niños, ancianos y enfermos). También se presentan varios conflictos entre vecinos por la falta de cultura sobre la sana tenencia de las mascotas.
Algunos de los vecinos no recogen los excrementos de sus animales o, si lo hacen, utilizan bolsas plásticas no biodegradables o los depositan en contenedores donde contaminan las basuras que pueden ser recicladas. Adriana afirma que “cada mascota utiliza en promedio 3 bolsas diarias estas tardan en descomponerse entre 150 y 500 años”. Lo anterior es altamente perjudicial para nuestro planeta.
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Adriana says: “when I was little my father used to say“ they do everything in the world, they invent thousands of things but they never make land where they can plant ”, recently Adriana told her father: "you can see that you can make land ”.
Eco Poop arises from the need to create solutions in homes with pets since their excrement generates pathogens that affect people's health. Likewise, according to a 2019 report from the Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM, pet feces contribute to the pollution of rivers and streams, and produce carbon that increases global warming.
Adriana points out that "80% of families in Colombia have pets." Animal excrements contain viruses and bacteria that mainly affect those who spend the longest time in a residential unit (children, the elderly and the sick). There are also conflicts between neighbors due to the lack of culture over healthy pet ownership.
Some of the neighbors do not collect the excrement of their animals or, if they do, they use non-biodegradable plastic bags or deposit them in containers where they contaminate the garbage that can be recycled. Adriana affirms that "each pet uses an average of 3 bags a day, these take between 150 and 500 years to decompose." The above is highly detrimental to our planet.
Opticom's innovation is the "Bumagovorot" project which is about creating a sustainable process within business. Opticom would collect waste disposal of the businesses to use in the production of its sustainable and environmentally friendly products. Within this project, Opticom also offers participating business partners trainings for their employees in ethics and sustainability.
"We know personally" is a project developed by the MTS team “Your Business”. It is a part of the Digital Ecosystem Products Centre, where MTS creates a platform of services to digitalize all types of small business processes. In this context MTS works only with micro businesses, very small companies of maximum 15 people. The "We know personally" project was launched during the pandemic, and it helped small local businesses whose survival depended mainly on the physical flow of visitors. When the first lockdown struck in 2020, the circumstances dramatically changed for them.
In this sense, "We know personally" helped to support such small businesses by giving them more visibility. A platform, quickly created thanks to MTS resources, allowed small businesses to better connect with customers. The initiative consists of selecting small entrepreneurs and showing them on a digital map that customers are able to consult, and, at the same time, the entrepreneurs are also present on the Instagram account of the project (for Krasnodar) where they can tell their stories in more detail. When the first lockdown ended, the pandemic was not over; under these circumstances, and after having received very good feedback on the projects from all of the engaged stakeholders, MTS decided to carry on with the initiative and to better adjust its tools to meet the needs of the small entrepreneurs.
Magalarva started in 2017 with a couple of youth with loads of ideas trying to change the world for the better. They discussed over how they can create a more sustainable future, and come up with several ideas. But not until they visited Jakarta’s landfill in Bantar Gebang that they know for sure that waste problem is the most urgent for us to solve.
At the landfill, they saw mountains of waste everywhere they look. And with the 7000 tons of waste that Jakarta produces everyday, it’s just going to build up more and more. As 60% of it were organic waste, their trip to the landfill drives them into researching about Black Soldier Fly (BSF). And what they have found is even better: BSF larvae are not only one of the fastest eliminator of organic waste, but they are also rich in nutrients such as essential proteins, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals which make them a sustainable alternative to tackle protein scarcity, another major problem that we need to address.
Wood waste is reusable and recyclable. This is a story of Mario Bennet who make best use of the wood waste. Whereas the community around him is unskilled and unemployed. Combining these two, Mario has been making impactful social enterprise for more than 10 years.
PT Intera Lestari Polimer introduced biodegradable bags or biodegradable plastic bags to the local market. Through innovation on the researcher team, they found alternative source of main component including technology process for making biodegradable plastic bags by replacing polyethylen (PE), it is bio-based component that easily biodegradable in months, ENVIPLAST® as a brand for bio-based pellets and film/bags.
Quero is an agricultural city, producing primarily potatoes. With around 13,000 acres of crops and a agricultural yield of 20 tons per acres, it is one of the most productive regions of the country, but there have been several times when demand has been lower to supply and the resulting overproduction has led to low sale prices, thus affecting the economy of farmers, who have had to reduce their profit margin and in some cases have lost everything, without being able to cover the cost of production.