20 sustainability apps that made waves in 2013. Whether it's improving energy efficiency, driving out toxic substances or supporting barters and exchanges as part of the "sharing" economy, sustainable business practices have a lot to do with encouraging the right behavior.
And with more people than ever glued to smartphones, tablets and Web-connected notebook computers, mobile apps and cloud services can influence change for good — and track progress. Sustainability executives can use dozens of mobile or cloud resources to guide decisions or drive green business change within their companies, their customer base or in their own daily activities. We hear every day about apps or services that can improve home energy consumption, help consumers swap equipment or clothing or stuff that they aren't using, or even pass along potential food waste.
But what's emerging in the business-to-business realm is just as compelling. Here are 20 innovative and influential tools that might fit your team. Building materials 1. Chemicals management Design 3. Sustainable Business Apps - Sustainability. Applits: Mobile Software for the People, By the People. Editor's Note: This article is part of Inc.'s 2014 Coolest College Startups package.
Read on for more on the hottest startups to watch right now. Also, be sure to congratulate Applit on winning our March Madness bracket. High school classmates Keith Shields and Joshua Tucker from Marcellus, New York, had always been close. But it took a 380-mile separation and piles of mechanical engineering coursework to inspire them to build a business together. Back in the spring of 2012--a few months after Fruit Ninja grossed an amazing monthly $400,000 in ad revenue and a few months before Instagram sold for $1 billion--the future seemed clear: "Apps were the next big thing," says Tucker. And yet despite their interest, Shields and Tucker, who were sophomores at Ohio State University and Alfred University, respectively, had difficulty. So the duo set up a website that solicited new app concepts and invited users to vote each month on the idea that they found most promising.
Applits in Brief: El Mediterráneo señala el camino hacia la sostenibilidad. Cuando hace ya dos años la Fundación 'la Caixa' me contactó para invitarme a actuar como asesor científico en una exposición sobre el Mediterráneo mi primer pensamiento fue que sería difícil dar con un planteamiento que no supusiese descubrir el Mediterráneo, expresión que en Catalunya se usa para referirse a presentar lo evidente como si se tratase de un hallazgo. Así que durante varios meses el equipo que iba a acometer esta tarea se dedicó a debatir que es lo esencial del Mediterráneo que nos interesaba compartir con los ciudadanos que aceptasen la invitación a visitar en el espacio CosmoCaixa, de la Obra Social 'la Caixa', en Barcelona, la exposición Mediterráneo: Nuestro mar, como nunca lo habías visto. El planteamiento para provocar esta reflexión fue el de proponer una base científica objetiva de realidades sobre el Mar Mediterráneo y su convulsa historia para invitar, desde esta base, a la reflexión conjunta sobre en que consiste la esencia de lo Mediterráneo.
Beijing buys a waste management company to solve its pollution problems—but it won’t work - Quartz. Beijing hasn’t been a pleasant place to live recently, due to choking smog so bad that it has been likened to nuclear winter.
But unlike many big cities around the world, Beijing’s municipal government controls its own infrastructure company, the Beijing Capital Group, which means it can do things like splash out $798 million to buy New Zealand’s biggest waste management company. The waste business, currently owned by Australia’s Transpacific Industries, has 200,000 customers and controls five of New Zealand’s seven major landfills. But what really interests Beijing is its expertise in combating chronic pollution. The Chinese government has promised to invest 1.7 trillion yuan ($277 billion) in combating pollution over the next five years, particularly around Beijing, Tianjin, and Heibi province. But no matter how much money the government throws at the problem, pollution is almost certain to get worse. Water is an equally pressing problem. Fashion Revolution Day se celebrarà el 24 d'abrill.