The B·A·W·B Innovation Bank is an expanding collection of business innovations that create societal good. Each record of the archive is a profile highlighting an innovation, its context, roots and impacts.
Providing a supply network of over 3,000 kilometers, covering 85 per cent of Hong Kong's households, and serving about 1.6 million customers makes Towngas a juggernaut in its industry. But when such gargantuan feats are achieved with and because of a deep sense of environmental sensitivity, the business model becomes an exemplar for others. The company is a producer, distributor, and marketer of natural gas in Hong Kong. It restores the belief in the powerful thought that green does turn into gold.
Sustainability in architectural design is what fuels the creativity at Ten Directions Design. By employing practices like Not-So-Big House Approach, Sustainable Design, and Indoor Air Quality, the firm lives up to its name, taken from the ten directions of Buddha Land described in one of the principal works of Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra. The name implies multidimensionality and thus refers to the three-dimensional nature of this ‘green’ architectural firm’s work. Combining the analysis of a house with an understanding of the needs of the client, the firm creates a space that is a delight for the client and is friendly to the environment.
In consonance with its name of Triodos or ‘three way’, Triodos Bank has built its business model on the three pillars of people, planet and profits. The belief of the bank is simple and its mission is lucid - it finances companies, institutions and projects that add cultural value and benefit people and environment with the support of depositors and investors who wish to encourage social responsibility and a sustainable society.
