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Shark Steps: Walking to a Cleaner Ocean

This business allocates a portion of its profits to donate to a Mexican organization called "México Azul," which supports marine life conservation, reflecting their commitment to minimizing the impact of pollution on the oceans. Additionally, they focus on developing and launching new products that emphasize recycling and reusing materials.

Closing Gaps, Opening Doors to Coverage

Wimmer Insurance Services offers insurance solutions in the Detroit Lakes, MN community region. By focusing on improving access to medical insurance, as well as educating underserved communities to navigate the healthcare system efficiently, the company helps solve SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being. Moreover, they specifically work with marginalized groups such as the Native American communities, to ensure they have access to necessary healthcare services, reducing disparities. By doing so, the company helps solve SDG 10, Reduced Inequalities.

Studio Beej: Sustainable fashion and lifestyle accessories

Sustainable Fashion Innovation: Studio Beej creates luxury fashion accessories using eco-friendly materials like cork, Piñatex, and Desserto, offering a stylish alternative to traditional leather.

Alignment with UN SDGs: The brand supports SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption & Production) by promoting sustainable sourcing and SDG 13 (Climate Action) by reducing carbon footprints and waste.

Ethical & Circular Design: By focusing on ethical production and circular fashion principles, Studio Beej helps build a more sustainable and environmentally responsible fashion industry.

Developing Tanzania's Next Generation of Tech Leaders

tekSafari enforces quality education to students in Tanzania by implementing learning programs that make learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) topics enjoyable. Additionally, these programs are based in Swahili, making it all the more easier for these students to grasp the concepts. 

The Mission for Ethical Online Shopping

SearchOwl’s AI-driven data personalizes consumers’ skincare shopping experiences and ensures fair access to product information and ingredients. SearchOwl eliminates the power of paid advertisements, which allows an equal platform for all businesses and helps reduce financial inequalities in online marketing. This solution aligns with UN SDG Goal 9 by promoting industry growth and innovation, Goal 10 by reducing inequalities between large corporations and small businesses, and Goal 12 by ensuring limited biases and responsible consumption of products.

Planting a Better World

My Home Park is an environmentally focused company committed to restoring habitats for pollinators, birds, and other native wildlife, while simultaneously beautifying homes with exclusively native plants. By planting native plants, along with staggered blooming throughout the year, the garden requires significantly less water due to its ability to adapt to the environment. My Home Park contributes to several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, and Goal 15: Life on Land. 

The Financial Advantage of the Intelligent Seller

For eCommerce merchants, SellAnalytix is an automated bookkeeping and accounting solution that provides real-time insights into cash flow, inventory, and profitability to support effective business growth. It empowers entrepreneurs, especially independent sellers and small business owners, to increase their profits and establish financial stability by streamlining financial management and offering data-driven decision-making tools.

By helping individuals and businesses boost their income, reduce financial mismanagement, and create sustainable economic opportunities that contribute to long-term financial stability, SellAnalytix supports UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #1: No Poverty.

Innovating Safety: Protecting Athletes Through Smart Technology

Notus Labs is a wearable technology company dedicated to enhancing athlete safety and performance through real-time health monitoring. Their compact device integrates multiple sensors to track core temperature, heart rate, and exertion levels, helping coaches and trainers prevent injuries like heat stroke and overexertion. By improving athlete well-being and reducing preventable sports-related injuries, Notus Labs contributes to UN SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure) through advancements in sports science and health technology. Additionally, their innovation supports SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) by improving workplace safety in physically demanding jobs and fostering innovation-driven economic growth.

The Work of the Little Man

This business focuses on streamlining labor management processes through innovative technology solutions. By evolving from mechanical to automated and cloud-based systems, the company helps organizations reduce business costs, enhance efficiency, and ensure equitable treatment of employees. Their innovation directly supports UN SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) by optimizing workforce management and UN SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) by integrating advanced analytics into business operations.

A New Era of Large Scale Composting

In the midst of what has been coined “The Decisive Decade” for climate action, one group of driven individuals has a lot on their plate when it comes to tackling an often overlooked contributor to climate change: food waste. Ecotone Renewables, a startup based in Pittsburgh, PA, is mitigating the effects of industrial-scale food waste through its patented composting technology, ZEUS. We spoke with Dylan Lew, CEO of Ecotone Renewables, and learned more about the group’s innovation, mission, and growth over the past few years.

Revolutionizing Hospitality through Thoughtful Innovation

Little Lion Collective is a New Haven-based cooperative that blends vinyl DJ sets with curated food and beverages to create inclusive, community-driven pop-up events. By prioritizing fair wages, benefits, and decision-making power for workers—particularly women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals—they address UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8) and Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10). Their model promotes equity in the hospitality industry while fostering social connections and cultural inclusivity.

Operation Smile

Stryker has collaborated with Operation Smile in a program focused on providing free surgeries for children and adults suffering with cleft lips and palates. The program addresses SDGs 3, 4, 10, and 17. 

Until the last drop and until the last ray of sunlight

The business uses solar energy to transport water used in tilapia fish farming.

The transported water is used to irrigate the sugarcane plantation, thus meeting the goals of underwater life and responsible production and consumption.

The countryside as an engine of change

AgroLider provides efficient solutions for the agricultural sector by distributing agrochemicals, irrigation systems, and machinery, while offering professional technical consulting. The company contributes to several UN SDGs by driving innovation in agriculture (SDG 9), promoting responsible resource use through its products and services (SDG 12), and generating decent jobs and economic growth in rural areas (SDG 8). AgroLider also supports quality education (SDG 4) by offering training for both men and women in all areas of the company, fosters gender equality (SDG 5) by empowering women in agricultural and administrative roles, and builds partnerships (SDG 17) with universities and organizations to strengthen the agricultural sector.

Hegos: Growing with Passion and Purpose

Hegos is a clothing manufacturer that produces high-quality t-shirts and sweatshirts while prioritizing sustainability and fair labor practices. To address global competition and environmental concerns, the company focuses on quality, customization, and the use of durable materials that reduce waste. By doing so, Hegos contributes to UN SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG 13 (Climate Action), ensuring fair working conditions and promoting sustainable production methods.

Cultivating the Future with Responsible Practices

The company specializes in agricultural production, standing out for implementing sustainable practices that optimize resource use and reduce environmental impact. Through innovative strategies such as responsible management of agricultural waste and materials recycling, the company actively contributes to the principles of SDG 12, promoting a cycle of responsible production and consumption that benefits society and the environment.

True North: Natural Tick Defense

AtlanTick Repellent Products advances sustainable pest control with its pioneering all-natural tick repellent developed for the Canadian market. This innovation supports multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including disease prevention (SDG 3), natural product innovation (SDG 9), eco-conscious protection (SDG 12), and partnership efforts (SDG 17).

Building Sustainability

CBCL is a Canadian, employee-owned multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm with expertise in the design of sustainable structures, infrastructure, and solutions. Their team of over 500 highly-qualified technical staff operate within a diverse range of sectors as they strive to reduce their clients environmental impact, increase energy efficiency and integrate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in every one of their projects. CBCL focuses on SDGs 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 the most in their day-to-day work. As a consultancy, they are committed to incorporating sustainable, long-term solutions in all of their projects as they want to see the communities they work, play and live in thrive for generations to come. After all, “Solutions Today. Tomorrow In Mind” is their motto. 

The Future is Tomorrow

Calvert Environmental Solutions is designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce a synthetic fuel that is more efficient for the environment. The company aims to make emissions more affordable and provide a safe solution to reduce greenhouse gasses by 20% by 2030, and 50% by 2050. 


Silver Business Innovation

Waseem and Partners is a silver business that repurposes old silver into new, high-quality products like jewelry and utensils. By recycling silver, they reduce waste and minimize the need for new raw materials, contributing to SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. This innovative approach promotes sustainability and offers customers eco-friendly alternatives to newly mined silver.