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While not new concepts, Passive House and Net Zero Energy are still a niche industry. To expand the scale, Local Impact Design is constructing passive houses using pre-fabricated panels, which reduces material waste and cost for construction. This building strategy practices more responsible consumption of non-renewable sources and focuses on cleaner and renewable sources of energy such as solar.
Epicater strives to improve the well-being of employees at companies in Toronto and helps cultivate unique cultures within these companies through serving them high quality, delicious foods. By partnering with local food vendors/entrepreneurs, Epicater customizes each order to fit the needs of their clients.
Bridgestone is a company that actively pursues its CSR policy. The main directions of the company's development are to affect global social and environmental issues. Bridgestone aspires to ensure environmental safety, therefore the head of the company decided to develop a new tire recycling technology. The company is undertaking a number of sustainable innovation measures, such as the development of the next generation of cost-effective tire technology, focused on customer needs and requirements. Bridgestone is confident that technology investments is a key to the future growth and development of the company.
Vitamix is the worldwide leader in blending technology. The Vitamix blender was the first high-performance blender in the food service industry and continues to be the industry standard today. The company uses these powerful and versatile blenders to help create a better future for people all over the world by improving the vitality and well-being of their lives through healthy, whole-food nutrition.
Penal colony №32 is an organization in Perm where convicted women are kept. The convicts are engaged not only in moral re-education, but also in manufacturing workwear, while serving a sentence. The products of the convicts’ labor are sold in “Vesna”, a store which is located on the territory of the colony. “Vesna” delivers workwear to government and commercial organizations.
Grupo MIA seeks to deliver a housing solution according to the needs and possibilities of the family; in this way they make "customized" solutions for families. Families located in marginalized areas of the country that lack social and governmental support. Grupo MIA includes in its mission the goal of helping and being a company that generates value for both investors and society.
“Working in the community, with the community, for the community”
The community identified that there were a number of social problems in the area that desperately needed addressing, the mains ones were: health, access to services and unemployment. ‘Getting Better Together’ (GBT) created this innovation to solve these problems and in turn they cover the vast majority of the SDG’s for example:
RBC launched the Blue Water Project 12 years ago to target the protection of freshwater in a multitude of different ways. This project entails donations, sponsorships, thought leadership, and involvement from its 80,000 employees worldwide. Through RBC’s commitment to the Blue Water Project, it has provided millions of dollars to support and aid organizations that work towards the protection of water in growing towns and cities.
"Mother can do it" is an established, local neighborhood-oriented sewing in Perm that was first opened in 2017 by Svetlana Alekseeva. Svetlana's personal misfortune inspired her to pursue her love for sewing and create her own project. As a result, she opened the first social oriented manufacture in which mothers on maternity leave or mothers of children with disabilities can work. Today the sewing accepts both individual and wholesale orders.
Crema Joe aims to reduce the amount of waste derived from single-use coffee pods by providing an eco-friendly alternative. They provide well designed, ethically sourced, high quality, reusable coffee capsules. This provides customers with an affordable and simple way to reduce their environmental footprint while still enjoying a great cup of coffee.
By reducing plastic waste and offering a reusable alternative, Crema Joe tackles 4 UN SDG goals: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water.
Antipodeans must ensure that the work they do in these local communities is sustainable. Organizations who provide community service in developing countries must be careful that their projects actually leave the communities better off and will allow that community to continue in their development plan. Antipodeans is a leader in this field and has taken steps to ensure that they provide a service that fully embraces and adheres to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Lila Digital and Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd, incorporated in July 2010, is a Water Engineering Company. They take care of entire mechanism of water treatments of sewage from hotels to effluents discharged from industries in Goa. They also work for Rain water harvesting and Rain water recharge. They work for water conservation in irrigation systems, End to End plumbing of water conservation and harvesting plants, solid waste management and other elide areas of environmental audits and consultancy as well. So, in a nutshell, the Company works for SDG 6 in Goa.
The innovation of a coffee shop company Cup by Cup is to stop using plastic straws and to launch reusable cups named "KeepCup" which are made of eco-friendly thermoplastic and silicone as an alternative to plastic-containing cups. Thanks to such actions, there is a reduction in the use of plastic that helps to the environmental situation in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (6, 12, 14,15).
Even though we are progressively transitioning towards a paperless society, world consumption of paper has grown significantly in the past decade. Approximately 2.4 million tons of paper is used in Australia alone each year, and nearly 50% of that ends up in the landfill.
Paper production is the root cause behind deforestation, desertification, and the loss of biodiversity. Nearly 4 billion trees are cut down each year to be used in paper industries. Furthermore, the paper-making process uses large volumes of water and chemicals to bleach the fibers and pulp, which in turn leads to environmental issues such as pollution and climate change.
With an increase in the amount of solid waste produced each year, many countries are running out of landfill space. Countries such as the United States and Australia have been exporting their recyclable materials to China, but as of last year, the Chinese government has enacted a ban to restrict the import of low-grade plastics and other materials that are hard to recycle (Downes, 2018). Without a local market for household recyclables, the average price of scrap paper has fallen from around AU$124 to AU$0 per ton, thus calling for the need to reuse paper as much as possible.
Nowadays, companies have efficient property management practices in place to deal with the challenges raised by globalization (Robert, Parris, & Leiserowitz, 2005). The company put the environment first in developing new property management concepts. For integrating the SDGs into its practices, the company has adopted a series of strategies to make its business of property management inclusive and sustainable.
The company claims that the best way to reduce packaging waste is to get rid of packaging at all. The main innovation is using “naked” packaging in such categories of products where it is applicable. Other products are packaged using recycled and recyclable materials.
Grill'd cares about their customers' health and protecting the environment. Their innovations include using paper straws instead of plastic straws as well as using grass-fed beef for their burger patties. Lastly, their innovation is to provide a wider range of healthier burger buns for their customers (Grill’d, 2019).
Grill’d's innovations in terms of their burgers, local community support, and paper straws align with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 11, and 12.
TAMGA Designs has created a supply chain that focuses on ethical treatment of garment workers, and environmentally-friendly dyes and fabrics in an industry infamous for its mistreatment of workers, pollution of air and waterways, and intense use of water and chemicals. This addresses the UN Sustainable Development Goals of responsible consumption and production, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth, and partnerships for the goals.
The innovation of Corporate Citizenship is to take a look at how businesses have responded to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and what implications and opportunities the Goals have presented. Their annual search report includes a range of resources and information designed for corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners. This innovation might not explicitly solve all SDGs, but indirectly helps many businesses and itself to work toward the Goals.
Euro Bakehouse is a restaurant cafe located at the Mountain Gate shopping center, Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia. The business sells a variety of foods, including coffee, baked goods, and hot food. The business has been running for 5 years and has been recognized by local customers as a store that sells goods made by the business. Some of the most popular foods that Euro Bakehouse is proud to sharing are its pies and pastries.