The 2019 Green Awards: Innovation For a Sustainable Future
The 2019 Green Awards were held, this year, at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, as part of the Greentech Festival, a three day event to promote world-class sustainable innovation with a focus on green tech. Launched by former F1 World Champion
The Quest for Clean Water: Startups and Their Solutions
Few people realize that there are parts of the world in which access to clean drinking water is not a given. Even fewer are aware that many people’s lives revolve entirely around collecting and obtaining clean drinking water. People who have
How to Read a Sustainable Business Model Through an SDG Lens
Enel is a multinational power corporation that employs an explicitly sustainable strategy, based on an approach aimed at creating long-term value for all stakeholders, enhancing the synergies between our business and everything around us. We are constantly looking for new
Oohos: Eliminating Plastic Bottles Once and for All
Technology evolves at an exponential rate--often at a pace too fast for us to comprehend until we are able to look back at it and reflect on it in the context of history. However, there is some technology that does
Taking Large and Small Steps: Galileo Continues Inclusion Journey While Sharing Lessons Along the Way
This article is part of an editorial collaboration with BCorporation. The BCorp Series can be found here. The original publication can be found here. B Corp Finds that True Change Often Goes Beyond the Numbers Through its innovative approach to summer camp, Galileo encourages young campers to envision
Making Corporate Activism Work: 5 Companies Doing It Right
This article is part of an editorial collaboration with BCorporation. The BCorp Series can be found here. The original publication can be found here. Through Policy Advocacy — from Opioid Abuse to Family Leave to Pesticides — B Corps and Workers Act on Their Beliefs The U.S. opioid epidemic is
Vestive: Introducing Ethical and Financial Investing
The term ‘sustainable investing’ seems like an oxymoron upon first observation. How can someone expend money with the hope of receiving a return on their investment while constraining their strategies to ethical principles? Indeed, this task is quite challenging —
Farmcrowdy: the app helping agriculture in Africa
Agriculture needs to be developed in a better way in Africa: there are farmers and there is land available; if developed in the right way, agriculture is the way to fight hunger in the continent as well as a huge
Quicargo: No More Empty Trucks On the Road
Quicargo, the startup company that helps to connect businesses to trucks with empty space in real-time matching, was born when the founder Avishai Trabelsi was managing his family transport company in Israel. They were struggling with very low margins due to
Raising Awareness of Sustainable Bioenergy in West Africa
The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has produced a set of twenty-four indicators aimed at the assessment and long-term monitoring of bioenergy sustainability at the national level. The GBEP Sustainability Indicators are intended to inform policymakers about the environmental, social and economic
Science for Good: A New Breed of Entrepreneurs with Science-Based Solutions for a Positive Impact
Science, technology and innovation are often regarded as critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, while scientists have been alerting society for decades on the negative impacts and risks linked to human activity — climate change, growing pollution levels,
Fair, Local and Sustainable: An Interview With The Fabric Social
The Fabric Social is a conscious fashion label the clothes of which involve silk and cotton materials woven by artisans on traditional handlooms in Northeast India. While it isn't too uncommon nowadays to hear about slow fashion brands focusing on and