SOCIAL BUSINESSES

Insecta Shoes makes sustainability sexy with ecological fashion

Move over, fast fashion: Barbara Mattivy's Insecta Shoes makes fashion-forward footwear from recycled and upcycled materials for customers around the world.

Beef without cows? The next frontier in food with Cellular Agriculture Canada

Meet the not-for-profit bringing Canada's top cellular agriculture talent together to solve sustainability and availability issues in the worldwide food supply.

“Divine serendipity” led Uche Onuora to help his son – and students around the world

HITCH co-founder Uche Onuora moved to Canada after learning his two-year-old son had autism. Here, he found support to give students in Africa access to better education.

How NERv won a life-changing prize for a life-saving technology (and made mom proud)

Meet the Waterloo startup that won $500,000 in the Entrepreneurship World Cup to fuel their mission of making sure no one dies from a preventable post-surgical complication.

There’s plastic in your beer and gender bias in tech – PolyGone is fixing both

Removing microplastics from our water is hard work. It’s even harder as a female founder in a male-dominated industry, says Lauren Smith, CEO of PolyGone Technologies.

How W&Y Environmental is solving our waste problem

Founder Philip Wu has a dream: zero landfills. His cleantech company makes better use of the gases our waste produces and the space it takes up.