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Subscribing to a Better Life

Elizabeth Cotter heads a bakery that brings healthy and organic goods to people of a small town. The 12th Street Bakery takes sustainably grown ingredients seriously in the making of her products.

First Sustainable Hotel in Shanghai, China

One Plate at a Time

As we seem to be overrun with the ever-present plastic and StyrofoamTM food service containers or disposables, a highly motivated company – World Centric – creates compostable containers that are designed to transform waste into new, healthy soil through composting. Mark Marinozzi, Vice President of Marketing, tells of a company that is doing all it can to have a positive impact on not just the environment but on social issues. They are driven by doing well while doing good and striving for a world that is equitable and sustainable.

Franchise Businesses Contributing To Environmental Sustainability

Rapid Realty paved its way into the real estate industry by innovating its business model. They sold homes and rented apartments by going greener. A green home is a healthy home. Rapid Realty utilizes a business model where franchises can start their own location and use their very own strategy to generate sales. Ultimately, the main goal is to make the environment healthier and cleaner while selling healthy living environments to home buyers. Therefore, Rapid Realty innovated the game by incorporating a community service program.

Self Sustaining Farm in Urban Environment

Empress Green Inc, founded by husband and wife Asher Landes and Zaro Bates, is an urban farm consulting company currently managing a 4,500 square foot, self-sustained, green space atop a parking garage in Staten Island New York.

The move to sustainable local farming decreases dependency on supermarkets and foreign imports for food that can be grown locally. The movement of crops around the world also causes pollution from the trucking and shipping industries.

It has long been thought that you need a massive area of land to have a farm and to grow your own food, however, Empress Green Inc. is attempting to change that line of thinking and create a better world for the future.

Engineering a Better Community

This company is environmentally and morally responsible. Before starting construction, land is tested and altered by professionals to ensure safety and to eliminate pollutants. This is innovative because most other companies value profit over being responsible.

Charging Ahead!

Consolidated Edison, Inc. is a utility company focused on providing affordable, clean, and renewable energy for their customers through various projects. Some of these include Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or smart meters, electric vehicle charging stations, and Reforming the Energy Vision (REV).

Empowering to Flourish Through Theatre Production

Collaborations for Maintaining the Beautiful Destination

Mutualistic Relationship in Kenya

Campi ya Kanzi believes that true ecotourism needs to address diverse aspects: minimized Carbon footprint, minimized usage of water, protect wildlife, recycle garbage, and use of sustainable suppliers.

The Hotel, "Not-Just-for-Profit”

Fogo Island Inn has an international reputation for exceptional, embodied, place-specific hospitality and bold, thoughtful, humanistic contemporary design. The company infused the concept of sustainability into every detail of the hotel.

The Greenest Hotel in the United States

The Proximity Hotel, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, was the first hotel to receive LEED Platinum Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council and was named the "Greenest Hotel in America" by the Washington Post. The hotel is also 100% employee owned, supports refugees with employment opportunities, and uses Geothermal energy.

South African Luxury Resort , Foundation & Conservation

The Grootbos Resort created a foundation to better the lives in their community. As well as, use sustainable practices to save on vital resources. Lastly, Grootbos focuses on protecting the biologically diverse land.

Jumeirah Vittaveli Resort

A hotel water bottling plant. This system provides glass bottled drinking water for guests and colleagues alike, eliminating the use of more than 70,000 plastic bottles per year.

Solarizing Energy Needs

Recently, TERI University (The Energy & Resources Institute) headed by Dr. RK Pachauri (Nobel Laureate, IPCC, United Nations), switched to solar energy on a solar leasing model by SunAlpha Energy. Impact: 67,000 kWh of solar energy per year, 250+ students consume clean energy every day in classrooms and hostels, 1.5 million expected units over long term, offsetting 1,344 tonnes of carbon emissions & energy cost savings to TERI of INR 15 million at zero upfront investment. The project employed 8 blue-collared employees for plant construction and 2 trained labour for operation & maintenance.

Together with its Singapore extension (Raghav's, founder SunAlpha, extended family business), the company boasts 700kWp of operating assets across SE Asia. In India, SunAlpha Energy has raised INR 10 million for the first 100kWp of solar leasing projects in India, successfully invested and constructed the power plants generating 0.15MWh of clean energy every year for the next 25 years. The company has a healthy pipeline of 10MWp of solar PV installation through the FY E2016, with over 5MWp on zero-capex leasing model in addition to leveraging SunAlpha's deep project management knowledge to provide project management consultancy services for an upcoming 500MWp investment in the state of Punjab, India next year.

Turning a Waste Stream into a Clean Burning Alternative Energy Source

Brewing Educational Success

Community Coffee, a Louisiana company, helps schools throughout the state with much needed funding provided by its Cash for Schools program. This philanthropic program allows schools to fill in gaps including supplemental textbooks, playground equipment, and even field trips.

Wood Replacement for a Better Environment

Conwood is the first company in Indonesia to produce a wood replacement.

A Company Using 100% Renewable Energy

Jönköping Energi provides power, heating, internet, and biofuel to households, individuals, and industries within Jönköping municipality. By using 100% renewable energy and working with economic, social, and environmental sustainability they are a part of the circular economy. They want to be environmental heroes, for current and future generations.

Bugs & Proteins

Gricha is an environmentally responsible Mexican company that seeks to take advantage of all the nutritional benefits of grasshoppers, presenting them as visually pleasing foods, such as cookies, and in this way combat two of the great problems that occur in Mexico: obesity and malnutrition. This product can help many people, in addition to contributing to the environment looking for options that do not represent a problem in the future such as cattle. A grasshopper farm represents less water, food, gases and above all, it is not necessary to cut trees.