Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

The Air Quality Life Index, or AQLI, converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy. From this, the public and policymakers alike can determine the benefits of air pollution policies in perhaps the most important measure that exists: longer lives.

Mammoth Water has led the development and implementation of the world’s most advanced surface and groundwater markets in the world – called smart markets. The rollout of Mammoth Water’s smart markets over 500K irrigated acres has reduced search and transaction costs of water trading for thousands of America’s food producers. We make water trading more affordable, accessible, and equitable.

LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your shampoo bottle started life as emissions from a steel mill.

The Open Water Foundation (OWF) is a nonprofit social enterprise that is working to provide an open source software platform to help organizations make better decisions about water. With increasing population, demand for water is increasing, resulting in negative impacts.

The Water Footprint Assessment Tool is a free online web application that provides clear insight into how water is appropriated for human uses and the impacts resulting from those uses.

APANA’s patented technology gives organizations control over their water use. This enables significant reductions in risk, helps eliminate wasteful water use, and saves money. The solution’s value has been proven in large company deployments including Costco, Fetzer Winery, and MGM Resorts.

Magnomer creates Magnetizable inks for enhanced recycling. Inefficiencies in the sorting process are the root cause of poor recycling and with Magnomer Magnetizable Inks, Fortune 100 consumer brands are creating packaging for their consumer goods that are easier to recycle, at a low cost. Our inks are food safe, recyclable, cost-efficient, and work as well and the polluting alternatives

Aqulytics is a cloud-based platform to help governments, businesses, NGOs and communities, track and protect freshwater resources with the use of big data analytics and participative monitoring technologies. We digitize and consolidate public historic data on water quantity and quality, while providing our users with an all-encompassing tool to monitor water sources and ensure compliance.

Waterly replaces those old clipboards (eliminating double-data entry), saves time, and gives you one-click reports to your state regulatory body without working in a spreadsheet. In addition, improve managing non-revenue water goals with easy access to water production data by any authorized party (management, engineers, clerk, elected officials, etc.)

GroGuru helps farmers make more money by increasing crop yield while saving water and other scarce resources in a more sustainable way