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Providing employment, Wonderfun addresses Goals 1 and 2 - No Poverty and Zero Hunger. By advocating talent over gender, it promotes Goal 5 - Gender Equality. Lastly, by contributing to the USD 75 million events industry of the Philippines, as estimated by the Philippine Association of Convention/Exhibition Organizers and Suppliers (PACEOS), Wonderfun is aiding in achieving Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth.

"The seed of Wonderfun Events was planted from our dream to create lasting memories through events that matter – for our clients and our community. We were keen to create events that were more than just parties, but experiences that could support artists and freelancers."

A Greener Grocery: The Ecostore Approach

Back to Basics Ecostore’s business is centered around an alternative grocery store that would prioritize sustainability in grocery shopping. Instead of a grocery store lined with products in new packaging, BtB Ecostore is lined with refill hubs of household and personal care products. Customers come into the store bringing their containers, filling them, and leaving with their needed products minus the new packaging. This alternative grocery store promotes reusing old containers, giving them a second life by using them as a container for new products.

Periods with a Cause

AWWA has created a range of high-quality, reusable, and sustainable underwear for all people who menstruate or who have minor incontinence issues, effectively replacing the need for single-use, disposable menstrual/incontinence products. AWWA contributes towards several SDG goals but most notably, 1: no poverty, 5: gender equality, 8: decent work

Proving Origins and Restoring Trust

Oritain offers a verification service that can trace the origin of products or raw materials. Utilizing forensic isotope testing, they can confirm where a product or raw material was sourced. This helps businesses reduce risks in their supply chain and provides a solution to the lack of trust between sellers and consumers by having an outside party authenticate their claims. It empowers businesses to demonstrate commitment to their environmental and social goals while protecting their brand reputation. This helps to address multiple SDGs:


SDG #3: Good Health and Wellbeing

SDG #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG #10: Reduced Inequalities

SDG #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

SDG #13: Climate Action

SDG #14: Life Below Water

SDG #15: Life on Land

SDG #16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions


Oritain’s innovation of origin verification puts a system in place to heighten transparency. This system helps businesses reduce their adverse environmental and social impact. Meanwhile, this system encourages responsible production and consumption, and pushes economic growth.


Edible Gardens: Fresh Bargains at your Backdoor

Hapori o te Ao introduces an innovative approach to help people maintain a more sustainable lifestyle and well-being by creating home-based edible gardens. By harvesting fresh produce at home, people reduce their carbon footprint associated with food transportation and don't expose themselves to unhealthy preservatives used to extend the shelf life of store-bought items. This solution directly contributes to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being by encouraging healthier eating habits and mental as well as physical health benefits gained through spending productive time in nature, and to SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production by promoting localized and sustainable food sources.

Bridging the Gap Between Sustainability and Style

Goodlids' primary source of material is hemp, which is used as the shell for all the hats, and can be found within the tee shirts and apparel ranges. By incorporating hemp into the clothing industry and adopting sustainable cultivation and production practices, significant strides can be made towards achieving SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). Hemp's potential as a renewable resource and its ability to sequester carbon make it a valuable ally in addressing global sustainability and climate challenges.

Duncan Venison: Doing Meat Sustainably

Andy Duncan, owner and founder of Duncan Venison (DV), understands that the meat (agriculture) industry typically has a bad reputation regarding environmental-consciousness, and is here to make a change. Driven by this mission, Duncan Venison is working towards a 'sustainable future for New Zealand Venison'. Andy has ensured that through the implementation of a sustainable business model, DV minimises their water consumption and reduces water and carcass wastage, which are the primary ways in which the industry affects the environment (Van Tuijl, W., 1993).

Duncan Venison is able to work towards meeting UN SDGs 2 (Zero Hunger), 13 (Climate Action), 15 (Life on Land) and primarily, 12 (Responsible Consumption) through this model. Some of their sustainable business practices include repurposing of waste water into fertiliser, and repurposing of typical waste products into usable goods. This set of practices together minimises waste, reduces consumption and costs, and in some cases, provides extra revenue.

Human hair waste recycled to save oceans!

The innovation is based on the recycling of human hair for different purposes. Ecofhair focuses on using hair in a circular economy and creating a bilge fender made of hair whose purpose is to prevent hydrocarbons and oil to be realised in our waterways in the first place. Collect waste, create employment and depollute oceans.

Education Perfect

Education Perfect began as an internet-based e-learning business. Their innovation is an accessible and affordable online educational tool. This satisfies Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) and Sustainable Development Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities).

Design Forward, Generosity Driven

MiiR is a consumer goods company based in the US that is committed to showcasing how generosity with time, resources, and capital can harmoniously coexist with profitability. From their inception, MiiR has been extending trust-based grants to nonprofit partners even when their financials did not show a profit. Since their founding, MiiR has consistently allocated a significant portion, between 3-5% of its top-line revenue, to support local and distant communities through unrestricted, trust-based grants.

Stormy Fruit

Stormy Fruit is an innovation that Golden Bay Fruit initiated in order to salvage weather-blemished fruit which otherwise would've gone to waste as it did not meet class 1 fruit standards. Stormy Fruit is a class 2 brand offering nutritious fruit affected by the forces of nature to their consumers at a lower price point. In doing so the innovation therefore helps to solve the following UN SDGs: zero hunger, good health and well-being, decent work and economic growth, and responsible consumption and production.

Rethinking PPE and Technology

Hoani Matenga, Co-Founder and Director, was motivated by the oversight of health and safety concerns surrounding employee locations during the day and the financial impact of miscounted employee hours during the working week. Hiwa Systems’ focus is on integrating their GPS tracking hardware into PPE, specifically the earmuffs. The technology works by the employee physically wearing the technology-integrated PPE, and data is then sent through the internet (LTE) and tracked in an application while the employee is within the pre-determined geofence.


Powering Ahead: The Electrifying Journey of Electric Loaders in Progress

Fulton Hogan has included hybrid and battery electric heavy machinery in its fleet and is currently scaling this innovation. Fulton Hogan currently operates one battery electric Loader (5T Volvo L25, supplied by TDX), three small battery electric excavators (2T size), 3 Hybrid Quarry Excavators in operation now, also the BE XCMG 20T Loader in operation with Blackhead Quarries (which is a 50:50 JV company with Fulton Hogan). This contributes to the achievement of multiple SDGs by cutting Fulton Hogan's carbon emissions.

Sustainability by Design

Argosy Property Limited (Argosy) is an Auckland-based property company that was founded in 2002. The company invests in and manages properties including industrial, office, and large-format retail properties. Their innovative solution involves the development of green buildings that prioritize sustainability and contribute to multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainable Dairying, Farming for the Future

The dairy farm in Waihi, Waikato, has taken an environmentally conscious step by planting a 1.2-hectare native area. This visionary shift, born from the challenges of traditional dairy farming in that area, aligns seamlessly with several of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Embracing SDG 12, the farm promotes responsible consumption and production, utilising the land in a manner that complements human and environmental needs. Addressing SDG 13, the initiative serves as a carbon sink, embodying direct, localised action against the global crisis of climate change. Furthermore, in sync with SDG 15, this commitment to native vegetation reinforces the protection and revival of terrestrial ecosystems, offering a sanctuary for local biodiversity. Collectively, this innovation stands as a testament to the farm's dedication to melding agricultural productivity with overarching global sustainability objectives.

Seeds of sustainability / Semillas de sostenibilidad

Colombia's National Planning Department in 2022 has detected that the capital alone wastes 1.3 million tonnes of food per year, which results in 37.5% of the food wasted in Colombia. The amount of organic material waste reaches the figure of 7,000 tonnes per day, which in conversion results in 7 million kg of organic material.

For the general manager, "This beautiful project was born from the discovery of the lack of options for cocktail bars in this city that had sustainability and conscious consumption as their pillars. From there comes the magic of the art of creating cocktails, inspired by the sustainable and conscious philosophy that led us to be the pioneers in the city in promoting sustainable activities in each of our bar and kitchen processes in order to reduce our carbon footprint to zero; so for us there is no such thing as waste, everything can be usable."

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El Departamento Nacional de Planeación de Colombia en 2022 ha detectado que, solo la capital desperdicia 1,3 millones de toneladas de comida al año, lo que resulta 37,5% del alimento desperdiciado en Colombia. La cantidad de desperdicios de material orgánico alcanza la cifra de 7.000 toneladas al día, lo que a conversión resulta 7 millones de kg de material orgánico.

Para el gerente general, este hermoso proyecto, nace del descubrimiento de la falta de opciones de bares de coctelería en esta ciudad que tuvieran como pilares la sostenibilidad y el consumo consciente. De ahí surge la magia del arte de crear cócteles, inspirados por la filosofía sostenible y consciente que nos llevó a ser los pioneros en la ciudad en promover actividades sostenibles en cada uno de nuestros procesos de barra y cocina, a fin de reducir nuestra huella de carbono a cero, por ello para nosotros no existe el desperdicio, todo puede ser aprovechable.

Capping Production Growth for Greater Sustainable Gains

Felton Road Wines has implemented a zero-growth policy since 2000. Felton Road Wines marked out 12,000 cases (108,000 Litres) as being the maximum production level for the company. This growth cap has meant that Felton Road Wines focuses on its resource intake, production cost and consumption levels, leading to reductions in resource extraction, emissions, and waste while implementing practices and methods to increase biodiversity, soil health, staff happiness and community engagement. This has helped address SDGs – Responsible Consumption and Production, Life on Land, Climate Action, and Decent Work and Economic Growth.

Stitching Tomorrow: Digital Innovative Secret Within the Garment Manufacturer

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought tremendous changes to people's lives and to Liu Tan Garment's operations. Challenges included the blockade of the Chinese border, suspension of trade between countries, and even people's survival. At the same time, this severe world situation caused people to reflect. China and Liu Tan Garment had a responsibility to support the livelihoods of thousands of people but economic development and profit production were constrained. What was once a busy manufacturing plant became an empty flow room. The empty plant was still filled with orders around the clock, which presented a disastrous business challenge for Liu Tan Garment.

This may sound appalling, but this is a true portrayal of the worst of the epidemic for Liu Tan. Liu Tan's leaders could not sit idly by. Instead, they brainstormed with management and the IT department on the current business and technology. The leaders jumped out of their comfort zones and turned to a new model of digital management. Digital technology has shifted lifestyles and created new possibilities for humans. First imagined and then actualized by science and technology, Liu Tan gradually moved from the haze of the pandemic to recover the business' performance using digital innovation.

Dairy products: Evolving Animal Husbandry

Toni Corp is an Ecuadorian company founded in 1978, under the direction, support and technology of Toni in Switzerland. It was the first company in Ecuador in the yogurt production industry and have since increased their number of products offered and have increased their market share through the years.

Since the company business model depends largely on the livestock industry, they have started to develop sustainable strategies in milk livestock to reduce their direct and indirect impact with their operations.

The Best Chocolate tastes like Sustainability

Paccari produces high-quality chocolates using sustainable and socially responsible practices that respect Ecuador's environmental biodiversity. It has managed to develop 45 unique and innovative varieties of organic chocolate, all of which are also entirely vegan.