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TV Super Filters are constantly working to provide high quality, high performance, cost-effective products to meet their customer's performance requirements.
Green Point has a few innovations they use in order to help the environment. It sources its products from local farms, such as "Organic Morgan's Farm". One of the biggest things they do is donate their leftover food compost to Morgan's Farm in order to fertilize plants and use it as energy. They also use biodegradable cups, straws, containers and cutlery. These innovations relate back to Sustainable Development Goal 12, ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, Goal 13, climate Action, and Goal 3, Good Health and well-being.
The new BMW eDrive technology is the new drive technology found in all BMW i models and plug-in hybrids, and is comprised of an electric motor, high-voltage lithium-ion battery and an intelligent energy management system. Zero emission driving is possible due to the electric motor. Cars are able to drive certain distances without using any fuel. For example, X5 xDrive40e is capable of travelling up to 30 kilometres without using any fuel. All of the eDrive vehicles rely on a special performance li-ion battery to store energy, and utilize a built-in cooling system to constantly keep the unit at the ideal temperature. This helps increase output and maintain service life. Intelligent energy management is necessary to make sure everything is running smoothly.
LOCWOM is an educational business that provides women in underdeveloped parts of Nepal to succeed in life. Their women's center is located in Kathmandu, Nepal. Working conditions in Nepal are some of the worst in the world. Child labor and unregulated sweatshops are sadly very normal there. LOCWOM educates women on a certain skill of their choosing. Some examples include textile making and entrepreneurial skills. With these skills, the women now have a better chance at contributing to Nepal's workforce in hopes of fixing both the social and environmental challenges the country faces.
BrownFlynn’s tailored approach to conducting Materiality Assessments helps a company identify the key stakeholders and impacts across its value chain and then prioritize the most relevant (i.e., material) ESG topics that matter most to the company and its stakeholders. This assessment helps direct the company’s reporting, sustainability efforts and engagement with stakeholders. In addition, this process can identify gaps and opportunities to set goals.
The business innovation from Simply Sustainable is mostly building projects by helping out with choosing Green Products. Of the 17 Development Goals, the three that Simply Sustainable follow are affordable and clean energy (goal 7), sustainable cities and communities (goal 11), and responsible consumption and production (goal 12). Simply Sustainable follows these goals because they listen to what the people want for their project, and then pick out green products for that project. Not only do they help pick out the green products, but they also like to teach people why choosing green products are important for the earth. Some of the services that they provide are Green Product Consulting, Project Management, and Interior Design Consulting.
With Green Product Consulting, they help out the project owner, or architect, on what products they are going to select. Along with helping pick out green products, Simply Sustainable can also accommodate when picking out products especially if people have any allergies or health concerns. Another service that Simply Sustainable provides is Project Management. They will help people by managing the project that they would like completed. Simply Sustainable will help in the selection process and be in charge with sustainability and health as their primary goals. Lastly, Simply Sustainable can help with Interior Design Consulting. They can help with project layouts, color selection, lighting design, furnishing and finishes selection. Also, if anyone was interested in selling any products, Simply Sustainable can help in that aspect.
One of the main services that Simply Sustainable provides is the teaching about sustainability to other people. They are very eager to teach anyone about sustainability and what their company can do to help. Some of the manufacturers that they work with can be very large but also some are small. They will call Simply Sustainable for their advice for ways to market to different industries, and even to help with choosing different certifications. Simply Sustainable will go around and talk to different people, educating them on the sustainable topics. These talks can go to people in the industry, or even to normal people that don’t know much about the products. They people that they have talked to has ranged from architects in the industry, to fourth and fifth graders.
This company has the goal of creating a more equal society by providing the same opportunities to talented black individuals that others have. There are several ways that they follow in order to achieve this goal. One of those ways is by buying businesses that the owners intend to get rid off and put a talented black person in charge of it. One other way is by financing ideas of rising entrepreneurs that cannot get the money from banks or from other funds. With this initiative they promote growth in small businesses, reduce inequalities by giving opportunities to young black entrepreneurs, and promote gender equality by having hiring rules to have a relevant percentage of woman workers and woman to run businesses.
Grosches first project was the outcome of their daughter catching Cholera. Helmi was an engineer for many years before starting Grosche. With an engineering design background he was able to design a sustainable bio-sand water filter that is simple to build and easy to maintain by the owners. Grosche does not only pay for the filters but also supplies people in other countries with the knowledge, to build, maintain and sell their own bio-sand filters for an income.
• Grosche works towards achieving goal #13 by planting over 10,000 trees throughout Haiti and Africa. This number keeps rising as they continue through their partnership with Trees for the Future, with a goal to help provide clean air for a greener future.
• Grosche also uses 100% renewable energy by using Bulldog Energy. By installing LED lights throughout their head office and warehouse, and by using the energy responsibly they were able to reduce their energy consumption by 40%.
• Grosche’s third action towards achieving goal #13 is their negative carbon footprint. At the end of each year, Grosche looks at the amount of carbon they've used for transporting their goods and buys enough carbon credits to cover what they've admitted into the environment and more, they purchase more credits than they used to over compensate for what they have done.
• Grosche in addition also contributes to helping life on land which is goal #15 by having a 91% landfill avoidance. Meaning only 9% of the packaging they use ends up in the landfill.
By giving real time feedback to building users, the team of Sustainable Buildings want to make these users become aware of the impact their consumption has on the environment. By translating the energy use levels into easy to understand activities, the company creates a reference for people to evaluate their energy consumption and rethink this.
Through their business activities a "cleansing process" became a vision to care for the environment and community through education .
Loofy’s is set to reduce the quantity of plastic waste we produce. Loofy does this by providing high-quality natural bath and shower products for daily use. The products are alternative, nature-friendly, and plastic-free, and so is their packaging. The company wants to make contributing to reducing plastic waste easily accessible to all, by offering the products through the online shop, supermarkets, vacation houses, and, before long, as a monthly subscription. Through its business model, involving carefully selected partners and suppliers, Loofy’s is successfully combining economic, environmental, and social value creation.
Twisted studio is innovative in their work approach: they use design thinking and human-centered design for social innovation, the latter being mainly used in the business domain. The two-women company provides social innovation solutions to organisations and governments to solve a particular issue or launch a project. Often, their innovative solutions build upon existing solutions which are then revised, adapted and brought further with the different actors and depending on the tackled subject.
They differentiate themselves from other design services through their coaching and training approach. Most of the companies apply design thinking to find solutions among experts, then, test the solutions on the target group. Whereas, Twisted Studio involves the target group from the beginning until implementation of the solutions. Moreover, in contrary to the usual single testing, Twisted Studio run iterative prototyping and testing before selecting the perfect design for implementation.
Their approach is innovative as the target group has the opportunity to take responsibility for the co-creation. It is not just a participatory way of working, it is innovative due to the use of design thinking with rapid prototyping and a trial-and-error mind-set.
Since 2006, Chairman Pascal Mioche and his team have been continuously experimenting with new ways of teamwork to serve with an equal ambition peoples' well-being and company performance. Pascal likes to say that “Automatique et Industrie” is a living laboratory. After 12 years of experimentation, business results are great, the enterprise is almost self-managed by the employees. “l’entreprise tourne presque toute seule”. The next challenge is to extend the experimentation to partners in the local eco system.
Warung Pintar (Literal translation: smart kiosk) was founded in August 2017 by these amazing people; Agung Bezharie, a former Investment Associate, Sofian Hadiwijaya the former Vice President of Business Intelligence in one of Indonesia's prominent start-up companies, GO-JEK; Harya Putra, and Pandu Kartika Putra. With a remarkable business solution, they found an opportunity to help reduce income inequality in Indonesia and develop their entrepreneurial skills.
Involving the technology equipment, Warung Pintar supports an individual partner by helping with managing the kiosk; from buying the inventory, to selling the products. The growth is nothing short of exceptional, where it started with 7 kiosks in several areas in Jakarta, by the end of 2018, more than 1000 kiosks exist. The company is planning to expand its business to other cities. Indeed, there are around 30,000 potential partners of Warung Pintar, waiting to join the business. About 34 principals are likely to partner with them, providing inventory for each kiosk, with more than 370 different products sold.
For sustainable industrial development, creating a resilient infrastructure is necessary. Innovation is a technology that enables smart street lights which saves energy. It is helping the country to achieve sustainable technology in the field of lighting.
India is a country of 1.3 Billion people. Out of which, 48% (approx) of them (660 million+) are women. Talking about the statistical data of years of early and mid 2011, only 12% of women had access to sanitary pads during their menstruation cycle. The rest of the 88% of them do not have access to sanitary napkins, as a result they were using ashes, sand husks, newspaper, and dry leaves during their menstruation period. More than 70% of women suffer from reproductive tract infections, increasing the risk of contracting associated cancers.
The situation was getting worse back then until a man with a golden heart and a brilliant mind came to rescue his country, and also helped a number of countries to live a healthier life.
Arunachalam Muruganantham, popularly known as PADMAN, is a founder of Jayaashree Inventories. From a poor background in the South of India, he created the world’s first low-cost machine to produce sanitary napkins at a low cost so that it can be sold at a low price.
The scooters of eCooltra are powered by electric energy. A friendly environmental transport that takes into account a responsible production and is exploring a new market related to renewable energies. It is also a service that contributes for a sustainable growth of cities and communities, investing in technology while supporting the concept of a sharing economy.
FESTA – Icelandic Center for Corporate Social Responsibility is dedicated to raise awareness of CSR and Sustainability among Icelandic businesses and the public, as well as supporting its member organizations in implementing sustainability and CSR into their strategy and day to day operations. The vision of FESTA is that Icelandic organizations will be known for creating value for the society in a responsible and sustainable manner.
Their mission is to support Icelandic organizations who want to be responsible by : • organizing training, dialogue events, conferences and workshops on Sustainability and CSR.
• publishing news and information on the development of CSR for Icelandic business.
• acting as change agents to mobilize organizations and authorities on strategic issues of CSR and Sustainability.