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Noteworthy Companies from Collision Conference

21 May 2019; Chelsea F. Briganti, left, CEO, LOLIWARE, Dianna Cohen, centre,rnCEO, Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Catherine Abreu, Executive Director, Climate Action Network Canada, on planet : tech Stage during day one of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Sam Barnes/Collision via Sportsfile

There were a lot of companies at Collision Conference and many will be lost in the coverage. I want to celebrate the companies that are trying to make the world better while also making a profit.

Ava Byte – grow food in your tiny apartment

Avara – AR app to educate people on endangered species

Bee Meaningful – a social network for making the world better

Carbon Upcycling – chemically adsorbs CO2 emissions into inorganic solids

Distributed Compute Labs – use underused existing computer power instead of building new super computers

Echo Ridge – crowd driving activism platform to influence politics

Ethical Brandz – Get consumers towards making ethical, sustainable purchases, while holding businesses accountable.

Fable– a company focussed on user testing for people with disabilities

Green City Solutions – moss based biotech air filters

Intuitive AI – using AI for zero waste in offices

Kind Village – A community for local businesses, professionals and organizations that donate and give back

Nutana Power – renewable energy storage

PayGreen – Automatically include a carbon offset into your purchases (France only for now)

Plant Plus – plant based plastic replacement

Quantaloop– Quantaloop is a land regeneration & eco-marketing company

Steadiwear – tremor gloves for people suffering from Parkinson’s

Swrm – platform to live a sustainable lifestyle & interact with the sustainable community

Unpublished Media Network – vote on weekly political actions

Wayaj – explore and book sustainable and socially responsible destinations around the world

With any luck these companies will be mentioned on Things Are Good for years to come.

Piracy is Good for Companies

Copyright holders of multi-million dollar franchises decry piracy and proclaim it to be a threat to their business. The reality is different. Piracy can spur competition and keep prices lower as a result. Additionally, the amount of piracy isn’t as high as large mega-corporations will have you believe. Meaning that the concerns around piracy are overblown and that piracy is counter intuitively good for the economy.

“When information goods are sold to consumers via a retailer, in certain situations, a moderate level of piracy seems to have a surprisingly positive impact on the profits of the manufacturer and the retailer while, at the same time, enhancing consumer welfare,” wrote Antino Kim, assistant professor of operations and decision technologies at Kelley, and his co-authors.
“Such a win-win-win situation is not only good for the supply chain but is also beneficial for the overall economy.”
While not condoning piracy, Kim and his colleagues were surprised to find that it can actually reduce, or completely eliminate at times, the adverse effect of double marginalization, an economic concept where both manufacturers and retailers in the same supply chain add to the price of a product, passing these markups along to consumers.

Green Energy Companies Gaining Ground

There’s no reason that we need to wait for the slower governments of the world stop subsidizing oil (I’m looking at you Conservative Party of Canada) in order to help renewable energy thrive. People around the world are bringing sustainable power to the masses and making money at the same time. These smart entrepreneurs are changing the world for the better while helping the economy.

Green entrepreneurs worldwide aren’t waiting for new energy policies or the political will that may, one day, reduce global greenhouse emissions by some arbitrary target.

They are already working furiously to create â€” and capitalize on â€” smart ideas that produce clean, renewable energy.

These energy pioneers aren’t incentivized by government dictates, nor are they making grandiose promises to revolutionize the global economy. They’re simply putting innovative renewable energy ideas to work â€” one small step at a time.

And, yes, they’re also making a few bucks along the way.

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