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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Adam and Tanya Glassman came together in response to a failed production company and created their own theatre company. Today the organization has fostered a community of participating artists among actors, designers, singers, and dancers, who contribute to some of the best community theatre productions in New York City. The organization specializes in creating large scale productions which provide the opportunity for aspiring actors to experience the thrill and excitement of professional theatre. Their combined goal is to inspire the community of Staten Island both from the prospective of the the artists and production members but also people throughout the community who may not have known or were interested in theatre. It's an outlet that mimics the thrill and spectacle of Broadway that is conveniently situated in our hometown.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conwood is the first company in Indonesia to produce a wood replacement.
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.
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.