SPONSORED BY
Camosun College
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES Elate Cosmetics
MELODIE REYNOLDS
Elate Cosmetics is a conscientious beauty brand founded on the values of kindness, community, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to educate and create innovative solutions to solve the problems of waste in cosmetics. Our product line is cruelty free and vegan and focuses on fair trade and ethical ingredients that don’t put people or the environment at risk. We believe no one should have to suffer for beauty. We choose materials that are as low waste as possible and continue to work towards becoming 100% plastic free as a company. At Elate we are committed to leading social and environmental change in the beauty industry.
WWW.ELATEBEAUTY.COM
WINNER
TOPSOIL - Innovative Urban Agriculture Inc.
Founded in 2015, TOPSOIL has created an innovative food-production business which utilizes non-arable land to grow food for restaurants and the surrounding community. Our business was built upon core environmental and social principles with an emphasis on growing the local economy. Our mission is to increase local food production by providing a fully integrated modular farming system that will empower people through production, employment and education. At TOPSOIL, we grow thousands of pounds of high-quality fresh produce, each season, for a wide range of restaurants and 1,000s of community members. Growing food in cities allows us to by-pass the entire industrial produce supply chain and connect directly with our customers. We believe urban agriculture is an exciting opportunity to provide food that is better for people, better for the environment and just simply tastes better.
Bikramjit Singh Diploma of Electronics & Computer Engineering
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WWW.TOPSOILEATLOCAL.COM Working together to build good business and great community.
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