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An average of one person was forcibly displaced from their home every two seconds in 2017, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. As of the end of 2017, a staggering 1 out of every 110 humans on the planet were forcibly displaced, or 68.5 million people. NeedsList was founded to improve the response to humanitarian and natural disasters so that the needs of people experiencing displacement can be met in an efficient, sustainable, dignified manner. This addresses many of the SDGs, but, in particular Partnerships For the Goals and Climate Action.
Nada's vision is “an unpackaged future: a lighter world that values a food system free of excess and waste to support the health of both people and planet.” Nada’s innovation—fostering a zero-waste supply chain—is a radical change to our world's current food system that relies on industrial agriculture and single-use packaging. Their holistic lens aligns with Goal 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
The product offered from Voltrium is innovative, by promoting full electric powered transport as a viable option for Australian people.
Australia Post introduced new electric delivery bikes to increase employee safety and lower carbon emissions. This would help to solve SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 13: Climate Action.
Through the arts and music project "Glasgow Piano City," the Piano Project initiative aims to reduce social isolation and increase opportunities for people to connect by embedding greater permission to play into the fabric of the city through redistributing piano donations back into the community and facilitating a new appreciation of acoustic pianos in Glasgow and beyond. They do this through piano-related events and activities welcoming people irrespective of age or ability. Glasgow Piano City contributes to a few of the Sustainable Development Goals, number 17 being an important aspect because of the partnerships which they have.
Enigami has utilize niche paper-crafting technique to transform paper waste into usable everyday object.
Summer Сoffee positions itself as a coffee shop where it is always warm. It appeared on the market recently, but this does not prevent the owners from constantly trying new things, from design to innovation in sustainable development. Summer Coffee was the first coffee shop in the city to replace plastic cocktail straws with the iron ones. This small coffee shop in the center of a Russian city not only tries to delight its visitors with tasty and inventive drinks but also cares about the environment and the health of its customers.
“The whole aim was that it has to be sustainable.” - Derek Marshall CEO.
Factory Skatepark was founded in 1998 to create a safe environment for recreational activities for the youths of Dundee. Factory Skatepark contributes towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a local level. By tackling these goals locally, FSP has created a successful, sustainable model that can be imitated in other areas to solve different social issues, contributing to a better world. Factory Skatepark contributes towards Goal 3 - “Good Health and Wellbeing,” Goal 4 - “Quality Education,” Goal 9 - “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure,” and Goal 17 - “Partnership for the Goals.”
A&M Specialist Limited's main technical innovation is the further development of specialized devices for the population of visually impaired. A&M has been attempting to add more functions and improve exterior design of their products to make them more accessible to the visually impaired. Besides, A&M has been considering 3-D printing at the stage of design and manufacture in order to reduce the cost and ease the burden to the environment. Overall, A&M has been conducting these innovations to manage to have positive impacts on the environment, society, and economy, and which were examined to approach these UN global goals: Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Sustainable Cities and Communities; and Climate Action.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Hewei Fang, the CEO of Kande Hotels & Resorts. He has shared with me stories of his real-life experiences about what Kande is doing to achieve sustainable development. In the interview with Hewei Fang, we talked about the innovation of the business and their approach on how to make the world and the environment a better place. As the CEO and one of the investors, Hewei Fang has experienced many things in Kande. Overall, the innovation is focusing on increasing the employees’ satisfaction through improving their health and well-being as well as providing decent job opportunities which will eventually bring benefits to both employees and the organisation.
The innovation of 3016 Designs is to create streetwear that “involves… (and) gives back to the local community” of Williamstown and its neighbouring suburbs. It provides a section that allows artists to submit their designs to the website. The designs are then brought to life in the form of clothing and posted on the website for other customers to purchase.
Since the production of organic foods restricts the use of related additives, quality assurance has become a serious problem in the process of food production. As a sustainable food supplier, Acatris is actively looking for new solutions to produce high-quality organic foods. Through continuous research on organic and clean materials, Acatris has successfully developed organic stabilizer systems and created a variety of organic product combinations such as guar gum, locust bean gum, frozen dried fruit, air-dried citrus fruits, starch, malt flour, fiber, and honey products. This series of organic and clean-labeled ingredients successfully breaks through the health and environmental impact of food chemical additives and allows consumers to purchase organic foods with greater confidence.
The innovation is an inorganic coating technology for walls that focuses on reducing the pollution and CO2 emissions of organic products. In 1768, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made silicon hydrochloric acid through an experiment, the main material of modern inorganic coating. Inorganic coating was researched and investigated by a team of eight scientists from the University of Science and Technology of Beijing and the leader of Qingrun Technology, Yuzhuo Chen, who I interviewed recently. The aim is to significantly reduce pollution from the manufacturing of coating and the emission of greenhouse gases, thereby promoting sustainable living.
Flipboard have refurbished old timber pallets and combined them with magazines in order to create and build the chairs used in their café.
frank green’s reusable coffee cups are combating society’s unsustainable reliance on single-use plastics. They promote the UN’s goals of responsible consumption, life on land and life below water due to the reduction in waste being produced by coffee drinkers.
Air conditioning is one of the core businesses of Handway Technology. Handway is mainly devoted to improving the technology of the energy-saving and waste heat recovery systems used in their air conditioning systems. The innovation in Handway's air conditioning systems is related to UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, by increasing energy efficiency.
Cheeky Chewies, or “Cheeky’s” as the owners affectionately call it, is a café restaurant that opened in Laverton, Victoria, in January 2017. The business helps to solve the Sustainable Development Goals of Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-Being, Decent Work and Economic Growth, and Reduced Inequalities through employing local youth in its provision of affordable and nutritious food in a low-income community.
Established in July 1982, China Coal Group Co., Ltd., is an industrial cluster integrating the coal, power transmission, and chemical industries based on group operations. Through years of international coal imports and exports, it has become the second-largest coal producer and supplier of China's energy industry. In 2017, the company’s Shanxi Pingshuo branch started the “Reconstruction of Mining Area, Recreating Green Water and Green Mountain” innovation project. Using new ecological reconstruction technology to simultaneously mine and reclaim the mining area, the branch won the Golden Flag Environmental Protection Gold Award in 2018, achieving a transformation from profit concentration to sustainable development, setting an example for the whole industry. The Golden Flag Awards demonstrate the value of public relations influence through outstanding cases, highlighting the unique value of public relations in social politics and business life and attracting the participation of many Fortune 500 companies with its professionalism and authority.
Café Rivense is a sustainable coffee producing family, focused on traceability and quality. Incorporating new process and good environmental practices, the Urena family follows a direct trade model that allows the family to have more control over the operations. This positively impacts coffee producers in the region. By having more control, Café Rivense has been able to develop their coffee processing method called 'Black Honey', which creates a high quality, low environmental impact product.