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UNcontaineD
Reducing waste by repurposing empty shipping containers for social good, specifically student and refugee housing. Europe has high shipping container disposal costs compared to other ports. Shipping companies haul empty containers to ports with cheaper disposal costs, and some will even dump containers overseas in spite of increasing regulations. These containers are recycled and downcycled by the disposal companies. The costs and energy consumed by moving empty containers away from Europe can be reduced if there was a local market for the reusable containers. The Netherlands, like many countries, is also having a housing crisis. This greatly impacts students and refugees who have fewer resources.
Family Mobility
People can share someone's private cars with the subscription. People who owns cars can find side businesses as well as the people who do not have cars can ride along with his or her subscription.
Sustainable Social Housing model(SSHousing)
-Climate change is relating to the energy consumption of the construction industry and building sector has a big role on it.(Global problem for the governments) -Energy bills of the homes and units should be decreased by the auditions and innovative methods throughout their lifecycle.(for home users, owners) -Green technology developers and investors need to increase their marketplace and local projects.(for the predictors/supply chain)
E-cofridge
Food waste at the individual level (households). 60% of all food waste occurs at the individual level, every person wastes about 75kg of food every year. We want to prevent this.
SAROWA
The unsustainable fashion industry, particularly the unsustainable practices during the production of clothing and mass-production of generic “fast-fashion” clothes. To illustrate, a regular cotton shirt requires 2,800 liters of water in production. This alone shows the significant resource consumption and does not yet include negative externalities that arise such as environmental pollution in terms of CO2 emission, chemical pollution & waste, etc. More importantly, 12% of all resources/raw materials (fabrics) are lost during the production process. One reason for this is overshoot liquidation because producers opt for economies of scale, meaning they purchase more raw materials than necessarily required to benefit from lower purchasing prices. Furthermore, there is an upcoming desire to have unique pieces of clothing among generation Z (also generation Y). In other words, offering clothes that allow individuals to differentiate is a deep need of the generation of strong personalities.
BeBetter
When businesses fail there is a loss of knowledge and a loss of function for the materials used. In 2021 there were 250,000 starting businesses in the Netherlands. In that same year 133,000 businesses were forced to close down voluntarily or out of necessity. 50% of starting businesses fail within the first 5 years. Substantial amounts of experience that don't see the light of day. Big numbers of resources which lose its function and are not utilised to there potential.
The Snowflake Network
The sectoral culture in the social impact space is currently focused on competition. Although there are "exclusive" clubs for celebrity social impact makers, most changemakers struggle to find support, networks, and useful trainings.
OpportuCity
As emphasized by the UN Secretary General "cities are where the climate battle will largely be won or lost" as they make up more than 70% of the world's global emissions. Rapid unplanned urbanization, immense pressure on the environment and natural resources, growing inequality and increased energy consumption are some of the problems that create vulnerable cities. Furthermore, cities face a lack of collaboration between different stakeholders, as well as targeted action and democratic allocation of resources.
