🇦🇺 Australia
- Curtin University highlighted Good-Edi’s edible takeaway coffee cups as a ‘perfect example of lateral thinking evolving into a design-led solution.’
- Sharon Winsor of Indigiearth was featured in the 2024 Shine Awards nomination form as the previous year’s winner: “To win an award of this nature has ignited the fire in my belly even more, it has given me more self belief in myself and a bigger recognition of my brand and purpose. I am truly humbled and grateful.”
🇨🇦 Canada
- Leigh Joseph of Sḵwálwen Botanicals spoke to Drug Store News about honouring her Indigenous roots with sustainability and regenerative practices.
- Travel Noire covered the history, operations, and values of Iskwew Air, encouraging travelers visiting or living in Canada to check it out for their next flight.
- Rogers TV spoke with Pam Fanjoy about her organization Fan/Joy, an innovative cooking and counselling program based in Guelph, and the BMO grant she was awarded.
- Ocean Legacy Foundation’s #LivetheWildPledge initiative encourages visitors to follow best practices informed by residents and First Nations and engages tourists in the important work of collecting and recycling ocean plastic debris.
- Dispersa was awarded the RBCx Prize after graduating from CDL-Montreal's Supply Chain stream cohort.
- Dispersa won the 2024 Quebec Startup Commercialization Track Prize ($150,000 in equity investment from Cycle Momentum’s Origo) at the Climate Solutions Prize Festival.
- Dispersa was featured in Chemical & Engineering News as part of a feature on biosurfactants, and the piece mentioned the launch of Dispersa’s first biosurfactant product, a mixture of two sophorolipids fermented from waste sugars and oils.
- The province of British Columbia is investing $8 million for 17 more projects in 2024 in collaboration with Ocean Legacy Foundation and other small businesses, non-profit organizations and First Nations to tackle marine debris and plastic pollution along B.C.’s coastlines.
- Mattel announced a multi-brand collaboration between Barbie and five women-led Canadian companies, including Cheekbone Beauty.
- Over 24 days this summer, B.C. ship tourism operators hauled 32.5 tonnes of marine debris from the Northern Great Bear Sea coastline. From there, 80 per cent of the plastic trash was transported to Ocean Legacy Foundation and KUTE (Kitimat Understanding The Environment) to be recycled.
- Ananda Devices received a $350,000 repayable contribution from Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED), which will allow the company to pursue its growth by increasing its export sales.
- Cooks Who Feed’s partnerships with several celebrity chefs was highlighted in The Suburban. The piece covers the initiative to design stylish and sturdy adult- and kid-sized aprons that provide 100 meals to the hungry with every sale.
🇳🇿 New Zealand