From Canada, with a Piggy Back Solution

Hi everyone — I look forward to meeting all of you. I’m sure this is going to be a great competition, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity.

I’m Sophie, from Ottawa Canada. I study Business Management and Product Design at Parsons School of Design, NY. I didn’t know I was interested in sustainability until a company came to my school asking for a sustainable solution to their problems. Excited by the challenge, I joined the competition and it wasn’t until then, thinking of a creative solution but also taking into account the company’s costs and value chain, that I realized how interesting and challenging the topic of sustainability can be.

In particular, I’m interested in sustainable supply chains. The world can’t survive without companies, and it also can’t survive without unsustainable companies.

I want to tell you a bit about my project, but I’ll just give you the short version! Over the past year I have been researching and thinking about an idea I call The Piggy Back Solution — it combines water research, bio fuel, nutrition, plastic recycling and combining companies from around the world to support each other and work toward a common goal. While it may sound like a complex idea, it’s really as simple as three steps and a slight change in a project that exists around the world.

I love working in teams and I hope to gain inspiration from the brilliant and innovative talents at UNLEASH. I want to discuss ideas, to discover issues with my project and to work on them. Having said that, I am equally excited to contribute to other peoples’ ideas. Consistently, I can contribute my great work ethic — fuelled by my love for problem-solving and a growing passion for sustainability.