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Villa Milagro Vineyards provides a habitat for native species of birds, plants, and wildlife as well as wine grapes. Villa Milagro has been recognized for its use of organic and sustainable practices in the wine making industry. Founder Audrey Gambino states, "Factory agriculture model that use chemicals is not necessary in a vineyard. With a reasonable amount of manual labor and daily attention, vines can produce lovely fruit with minimal inputs. That is our model."
Happy Harvest Hydroponic Farms was developed in 2014 by John Evangelista, Guy Botticelli and Cris Tuhy. They currently produce hydroponic crops in Denville, New Jersey. They all have had prior experience with planting/growing and gardening. Guy came up with the idea to grow food year round with a natural and sustainable production and pitched his idea to John and Cris.
Jihada is the owner of an eco-friendly mobile waterless car wash.
BMW tackles sustainability efforts with the BMW i3, its first fully electric car. The innovation emerged as a result of the electric car being the market of the future, and the government putting forth requirements to the automobile industry to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The sustainability efforts are seen throughout the entire organization: manufacturing, offices, and actual vehicles.
ALDI employs a three-pronged strategy to ensure business success which aligns with the Triple Bottom Line concept. It is a holistic view of doing business that attempts to balance people, profit, and the planet.
Trent Daugherty, Store Manager said: “By the selection of this business model ALDI is able to maintain low operation cost and pass the savings on to the consumers with low price food.”
JM Family Enterprises is the parent company for JM Lexus, Southeast Toyota Distributors, JM&A Group, World Omni Financial Corp and JMSC. While much of its business supports the distribution, sale and finance of automobiles, it has established a culture of sustainability and community involvement. It continues to increasingly focus corporate wide efforts toward sustainability. It is also consistently recognized as one of the top employers to work for in national publications.
A University professor and her colleagues joined with a community of women in a rural village in Mexico to create a community of agricultural and food businesses. Working together they have developed food products made from crops and animals grown by the people in the village that are sold at significantly higher prices than what the crops alone could be sold. Building on a deep village culture of collaboration and trust Professor Gabriela Sánchez Bazán and her colleagues have helped the village women become accomplished business people who are continually innovating.
Reusing and recycling infrastructure.
Indonesia is a nation of 13,000 islands combining many different cultures and languages. The Bolang television show has traveled throughout Indonesia for the past 9 years using children to teach other children about their unique heritage and the environments in which they live. In the process they have increased the knowledge of a generation of Indonesian children about how to love and care for the environment and honor Indonesian heritage. They have also stimulated many local economies by increasing tourism.
PT Tirta Marta, an early pioneer in plastic packaging for food, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and cosmetics in Indonesia began actively pursuing more earth-friendly packaging. Beginning in 2000, the President of the Company stepped up R&D to develop an environmentally-friendly plastic process and technology. It took ten years to find the right formula, then another five years to launch it in the market and gain its current acceptance. As a green technology company with a vision to usher in next generation, more sustainable plastics, the company's name was changed to Greenhope.
Conventional plastic bags take 500 years to degrade. But Greenhope's new biodegradable polymer is made from tapioca, a naturally abundant starch from the cassava root. The polymer can be made into eco-friendly plastic bags, packaging materials, and many other uses, substituting conventional plastics.
In addition to being good to the environment, the company is good to its farmers. Its operations and sourcing are from local tapioca cooperatives that follow fair trade standards (certified by the IMO Switzerland for Fair For Life) to earn a living wage.
Gunung Sewu Group is a group of Indonesian companies that was founded by Go Soei Kie (Dasuki Angkosubroto) in 1953. It covers various areas of business like insurance, mining, real estate, consumer goods and agriculture that employ more than 25,000 people.
Two of their companies, the Great Giant Pineapple Company (PT GGPC), one of the largest pineapple growing and processing operation in the world, and PT Great Giant Livestock (PT GGL), one of the largest ox cattle feedlots in Indonesia, have developed a re-generative, circular relationship. The waste generated by the feedlot is used to grow pineapples and the waste from the pineapple operation provides a continuous supply of high quality ox food.
Sido Muncul, an Indonesian herbal plant company, has turned to rural farmers and villagers for help with filling a production gap. Sido Muncul provides seeds and training and the farmers deliver a reliable product.
Use the renewable resource of rice husks as fuel for cement kilns to reduce the need for fossil fuels and decrease CO2 emissions while increasing income to small farmers and transporters.
How to meet increasing demands of a traditional product based on black soybeans, while supporting farmers? Unilever Indonesia engaged a university in research, providing funding. The university developed a new non genetically modified organic strain,that was more resistant and helped farmers. Farmers cultivated the ‘new’ traditional black soybean and sold them to Unilever.
This is an innovative model of partnership and collaboration. This solution included forming a novel business model among a university, business (Unilever), community (farmers), and media which is promoting traditional dishes on TV.
Handling waste in a way that helps to preserve the environment is relatively new in Indonesia. Turning human food waste into animal feed is innovative. Pledging to the organizations creating the waste that it will be handled without the possibility of misuse and opening the operation to supplier audit demonstrates a unique level of transparency in waste handling by PT. Anugrah Jaya Wisesa founded in 2008.
While a hotel in one of the national parks of Taiwan is sustainable in economic and environmental terms, its focus on social sustainability is turning a disappearing indigenous culture into a thriving one! The place, Leader Village Taroko, is named after the local tribe whose name means “human being.”
Fuji Xerox provides measurement software, usage reports and education related to customers’ energy-using habits. This combination is expected to reduce energy consumption and influence more sustainable worker behaviors through direct data about their use of energy.
Chief (Mrs.) Oyenike ‘Nike’ Monica Okundaiye’s first workshop was conducted at Oshogbo in 1968. There, she was able to begin the production of her world-renowned pieces of art. She operates three profitable art galleries including the Lagos Gallery currently the largest in West Africa where art from her students and other artists is sold. Mrs. Okundaiye explaines, ‘’Profit from sales is divided into three, one goes back to the business, another goes to the family and the last goes to the Nike Centre for Arts and Culture Foundation’’. The passion Nike has for the artists is well appreciated in Nigeria and abroad.
Nike has been able to impact so many lives through her workshops, teaching people how they can earn money with their hands. These trainings are an integral part of her strategy for empowerment. The idea is to task all those she has trained to become trainers. Nike’s model can be said to have a multiplier effect in the societies where they’re conducted by assisting people to not only be self-reliant but also to be agents of positive change in their communities.
Oil Fox is an Argentina-based biodiesel producer. In addition to producing biodiesel from standard vegetable and other natural oils, they also have developed technology to create fuel from algae.
The byproducts of their process include drinkable water and edible supplemental protein (spirulina).