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Harvest Café is actively working to improve social inequalities in the workforce. The ultimate goal is to offer full and productive employment while providing decent work and ensuring equal pay for people with disabilities. Furthermore, Harvest Café assures equal access to vocational training for those with disabilities.
TLS Foods, doing business as "The Nosh," is a company that is breaking the social norms of food sustainability. Created in 2010, The Nosh uses their own local produce as well as produce bought from other local farmers to truly capture the 'farm-to-fork' movement. Teri, the owner is passionate about enhancing the health and welfare of the people in her community.
BNY Mellon’s two key ideas are financing carbon neutrality and carbon offsets through business practices and social investing.
BNY Mellon has made it a priority to maintain a net zero carbon footprint by advancing technologies to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 Emissions. The company has successfully reduced their emissions by 42% since 2008, and continues to work towards greener technology all together.
BNY Mellon purchased carbon offsets, in connection with projects that provide financing across the world, that provide carbon reduction elsewhere. The company was appointed by the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association to be a Voluntary Carbon Unit registry provider being that it deals with asset management and servicing to green companies.
Busfrö Nytt & Bytt aims to encourage people to think and act more sustainably by providing an easy service for people to sell and buy clothes, toys and home decor second hand. Busfrö's clients can hand in used things and then get a percent of the sold price - easy, profitable and sustainable for the environment.
Ecosia is a search engine that raises money the same way any other search engine does: Ecosia displays advertisements besides the regular search results, both of which are provided by Ecosia's search partner, Bing. Every time a user clicks on one of these advertisements, Ecosia earns revenue through Bing's advertising program. Eighty percent of Ecosia’s profits go to planting trees and other projects that restore the natural environment. Ecosia publishes its monthly business reports and tree planting receipts on its website.
Arbonne International is a 37-year-old skincare and wellness company that has sustainability at its core.
The Arbonne business model is centered around sustainability and innovation, making the world a healthier place to live.
Arbonne maintains their mission of sustainability and innovation by continuing to utilize botanical ingredients to produce their products and by focusing every business decision on their sustainability goals.
Imagine a time when you were overwhelmed by the thought of a lengthy and arduous learning process that stood between you and your desired future.
Do you know who feels this type of overwhelm all of the time? Medical students.
By creating an online learning platform for medical education that makes learning clinical medicine efficient and, importantly, durable, OnlineMedEd.org (OME) converts an overwhelming learning task into a pleasant challenge. OnlineMedEd accomplishes this by applying all that science has revealed about how adults learn in combination with the power of the internet and related technologies. In fact, at this point in human history when acquiring new knowledge and learning new skills will likely be a necessity for many people at multiple points in their careers as the pace of technological innovation disrupts the economy on a more and more frequent basis, OME envisions a world in which their learning paradigm will be available to help anyone learn anything, and fast.
Video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/C9_0cqkqvgE
Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream in Cleveland, OH, is more than just your average ice cream shop. Through focusing on the relational wellbeing of their customers, employees, and community, they created an innovative ice cream shop with sustainability as its core foundation.
Using an innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Model to develop industry parks and industry new cities in undeveloped cities to improve the industry, infrastructure and social lives, thereby boosting the local economy.
Sundial’s non-negotiables are:
• Fair trade production
• Certified B Corp business entity
• Women are the ideal suppliers/business partners
• Ingredients are sustainably sourced
• Chemical Free refinement of ingredients
• 10% of net sales of select number of Shea Moisture products are channeled back to community initiatives. This amounts to 1.4 million net dollars channeled directly into the supply chain. Sundial does not take anything.
• Suppliers are over 25,000 women in Africa, Middle East, and Latin America
Green Toys Inc. is an Eco-friendly, U.S. based, toy manufacturing company. Their use of recycled materials, strict quality standards, and holistic view on their supply chain make it the world's leading manufacturer of safe, environmental, US-made products for children. Today, they are sold in over 3,000 retail locations in the US, and are distributed globally in over 90 countries.
TownHall Ohio City is American eatery described as an “Urban Café & Sophisticated Swill” that aims to promote health, wellness and balance. The Company does this by being able to accommodate any diet with a healthy meal from its innovative and completely Non-GMO menu. According to the General Manager, Ryan Hartzell, the restaurant prides itself on being the only place in the city “where five people with five completely different diets can all come, enjoy a meal and grab a beer in a really cool environment” (Hartzell, 2017). The company also frequently hosts events where doctors educate the community on the dangers of consuming GMO foods and how putting the right ingredients in your body can increase health.
TownHall continues to promote health, wellness, and balance by occasionally feeding the hungry at multiple annual events. TownHall feels strongly that it’s their duty to provide the less fortunate with healthy great-tasting meals as well. However, the company’s innovation wouldn’t exist without the procurement of non-GMO ingredients. TownHall procures their fruits and vegetables from national farmers while acquiring most of the meat from New Zealand.
Steel is basic to the world economy, and the world’s biggest steel producer ArcelorMittal is reinventing the world’s strongest metal, the material we use to build our railroads, ships, bridges, skyscrapers, and highways.
In 2014, ArcelorMittal developed their 10 sustainable development outcomes (SDs), and “committed to leading the way in which the world views steel, and championing steel’s role in creating high quality, sustainable lifestyles for people all over the world” (ArcelorMittal).
Chairman and CEO, Lakshmi Mittal has charged Marcy Twete and Beth Spurgeon, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Director, and USA Corporate Responsibility Manager, respectively, to assign measures to outcomes, and to create owners of those outcomes throughout the organization (Beth Spurgeon).
As early “owners” of the SDs, the global Research and Development arm launched 30 new products to create sustainable infrastructure products in 2016, contributing to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 9 of building resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation. To make highways safer and to increase steel sales in the United States, R&D in East Chicago worked to create the TL-5 barrier and the S-in motion project.
The Payne & Payne Architecture & Design Team has been constructing award-winning custom Green homes in a wide range of architectural styles throughout Northeast Ohio. Payne and Payne’s Design Team seamlessly brings the client’s vision to reality within budget. Thus, providing clients with a home that's more efficient, more durable, and less costly to run.
"Healthy for the human body, healthy for society, and healthy for the environment."
As a green hair care brand O’right offers more than products of good quality, it combines inspiration from the nature of Taiwan and unique innovations to create products that are not only good for the consumer but also our land and society.
Established in 1895, The Garland Company has since sought to remain at the forefront of commercial building trends. In 1995, they began implementing green technology and commercialized some of the first vegetative green roofing system. Today, The Garland Company uses green roofing make a positive impact while maximizing customer value.
Chongqing Kibao Robot Incorporated Company is a company that was founded in 2001. It focuses on the development of Artificial Intelligence and Highly-effective environmental electricity generator. The AI aims to replace laborers in severe working environments and a generator provides energy for rural areas in developing countries.
Soko focuses on the large group of marginalized artisans, primarily in Kenyan slums, who have a valuable skill but who have always been limited to selling in their local markets. The Soko founders realized that many artisans already own a mobile phone, so they developed a "virtual lab" that takes the place of a physical factory in order to employ those in even the most rural areas. Soko continues to capitalize on the power of technology in order to drive revenue that ultimately creates a safe work environment and creates wealth in underdeveloped communities.
Goby, Inc. is an international company that has developed an online platform for performance optimization of real estate assets in terms of finding sustainable solutions by reducing energy waste. These allow the respective companies to become more sustainable by reducing energy costs. It also helps increase the value of the company's real estate assets.