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The Heart of The House

Plaquimet is an organization that through its leadership in innovation and in coordination with composite materials transcended its limits and evolved into what we now know as "wet core".

They sought to maintain the human quality, professional generation of bonds of value and confidence creating integrated and sustainable solutions for all humanity.

Community & Conscious Consumption

Scribbles Coffee Co. is innovative in its business model implementation. Rather than simply being a coffee shop, the business has a clear focus on the creation and cultivation of a conscious community, aligning with the sustainable development goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities. Scribbles also aims to optimize sustainable efficiency within their supply chain, roasting their own coffee beans and diverting waste product from being disposed of; this serves as an example of Responsible Production and Consumption.

Serving Good

An essential part in their commitment to providing customers with sustainable products is the Serve Good program. This program created by US Foods will benefit people all over the country. The Serve Good program focuses primarily on sustainable food sourcing and using recycled materials to produce packaging and reduce waste. This program will help solve several SDG’s including good health and well-being, responsible consumption and production, life below water, and life on land.

Chemical Reaction: Achieving Impact Through Increased Compliance

ChemSpec implements comprehensive life-cycle assessments (LCAs) to ensure compliance with standards (e.g., REACH and TSCA) as well as provides heightened value to clients and demonstrates responsible community leadership. They seek high-quality, low-impact products to reduce cost and improve benefits, and they act as a knowledge base to clients by promoting cleaner additives in the chemical industry.

AWARENESS AND COMMITMENT TO THE CONSERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES

H20 y Vida is a Colombian family company committed to the preservation of water, which has proposed a national plan to save drinking water that seeks Colombia to be recognized worldwide as a pioneer country in saving drinking water, for this they have developed a device water saver (conscience), which regulates the water pressure and leaves a necessary flow step in each use source guaranteeing 70% effective savings in each of the installation points.

Healthy Food, Healthy Life

Sea to Table is a company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. They deliver fresh fish and healthy food to people’s houses and to chefs at restaurants. They want to make delicious seafood available for every American in the United States, creating also the opportunity to promote healthy products and protect the marine environment.

A Review of the Innovative Sustainability Practices at Vehtek Systems, Inc.

They use an Oil Water Separator to clean their industrial wastewater. Without this, they would have to pay a third party company to dispose of their wastewater, or be subject to fines from the EPA or city if they discharged untreated wastewater into the environment.

Proving Hope to the East Coast of Taiwan

Actions that Joy Hotel is implementing connects with the UN Global Goals and they lead to No Poverty, Gender Equality, and Economic Growth.

Generating Tomorrow’s Business Model Sip by Sip

Utilizing its Market Driven Regeneration approach in the South Atlantic Rainforest, Guayakí seeks to preserve resources and traditions of this land with the profits from each Yerba Mate tea sold. Guayakí’s business model creates a positive feedback loop between demand and rainforest regeneration, creating a restorative cycle of environmental sustainability, carbon drawdown, and responsible production.

Adams Party Rental

Adams Party Rental implemented tags to place on their hangers in order to ensure they receive them back and avoid having to constantly purchase more. VanDenburgh also implemented other sustainable practices. He revised the services the company provided: Whereas before it had been a mix of renting reusable products and selling disposable ones, under VanDenburgh’s leadership the company now exclusively rents reusable products. They have also switched to more energy efficient products.

Why Dine Farm to Table When You Can Dine At the Farm

90 Acres Restaurant located at Natirar provides a farm to table experience that ties in sustainability solutions that bring the community together while saving the planet and promoting a healthy lifestyle and well being.

A Life Opportunity

The Ecopetrol store is an opportunity for growth for sectors with different problems, providing an opportunity for economic growth to small businesses, and contributing to the reduction of inequalities.

Kicks for Kids - With the Correct Fitting Shoes, Children Can Conquer the World!

Richard’s Stride Rite Shoes specialize in the proper fit of children'shoes. These stores focus on fitting babies, toddlers, and older children. Their main focus is to properly fit children who may have problematic feet that are extra wide or narrow, or require custom orthotics. Richard’s Stride Rite Shoes' commitment to providing the best fitting shoes to children is furthering the growth and development of child health and well-being.


An Innovative Idea to Reduce Environmental Impact

"One of the five (5) lines of service that Ecopositiva S.A.S. E.S.P. offers its customers / suppliers is the destruction and protection of brand from their usable waste. Thanks to this service, customers / suppliers reduce the environmental impacts caused from the waste they generate, by significantly increasing their potential for reuse and recycling." This innovation involved the Board of Directors of Ecopositiva S.A.S. E.S.P.(CEO - Arturo Rojas).

This initiative emerged in 2016, with the mission of providing solutions to customers in the management of their usable waste, in order to reduce the waste generated and reintegrate part of these materials into the production cycle, maximizing their resources.

"The management of destruction and brand protection of the usable waste includes: reception, unloading, processing, storage and control of inventories. All these activities are carried out always seeking to mitigate the impacts caused to the environment. " (CEO - Arturo Rojas).

Platform of Collaborative Model

"We are a social enterprise, we are a company with social impact supported by technology base, we use tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms and cloud computing and everything else, but really believes we are not a company of technology. We are a social enterprise because what we are looking for is the well-being of people and societies. so if you ask me, did you change the [business] model?, We change is the way of thinking, we stop thinking about how to be the world's best [to think about] how to become the best for the world and that of being for the world completely changes the concept of what a company is, what a society is and what a model is. We are a company that is for society." (Juan Esteban Rincon, 2018)

Save Water and Cattle with Hydroponics

As a general system, hydroponics is an agricultural technique which eliminates the use of soil and instead employs only water to grow crops. In particular, producing green grass forage for cattle by means of hydroponics is an effective, cost- and resource-saving alternative. It allows ranchers to provide better care for their livestock by generating a constant food supply, while using merely a small fraction of the water required by traditional agricultural methods.

En Route to Zero Waste Society

Alterenegyz is a single point solution provider for all renewable energy needs and waste management solutions. They customize scientific solutions catering to client specific needs. They are a highly experienced team in technical and execution fields offering operation and maintenance services and providing TURNKEY Solutions for all projects if required (Design/Construction/Operation). They also offer Consultancy/Education /Awareness Programmes and is one of the few companies to conduct Waste Audits.

Redefining Agriculture through Technology

Letcetra uses Hydroponics - a system of agriculture that utilizes nutrient-rich water rather than soil for plant nourishment - to grow pesticide free vegetables. Using this technology the company wishes to target SDG 2: Zero Hunger, SDG 3: Good health and well-being and SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption And Production by adopting a sustainable method of agriculture to provide cheap and nutrient rich food to the masses.

Cheers to Change

Molson Coors is a multinational brewing company whose business strategy is rooted in and influenced by sustainable production and consumption, specifically the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being” and “Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption.”

The New Luxury Electric Car-Service

Trefle Inc. offers car-ride services with its electric cars. It helps to eliminate carbon footprint through renewable energy and, at the same time, educates its riders about being sustainable through their riding experiences. The business has promoted 4 Sustainable Development Goals, and it aims to tackle more in the future.