This award recognises initiatives that support or promote energy or water conservation, waste reduction, climate action or environmental advocacy.
There’s no business more deserving of our Smart50 Sustainability Award than this year’s winner, River Stone Aquaculture Innovations.
Learn moreGoodbyes launched in 2015 after founders Monique Thomas and Olivia Mangan recognised a gap in the Australian market for a fast paced, high-volume clothing resale service. Today Goodbyes is Australia’s largest consignment resale chain with six service locations across four states, including a soon-to-launch Adelaide location.
River Stone Aquaculture Innovations’ founder and genetics engineer Joseph Ayoub set up a small barramundi fish farm in 2007 that emulated the natural pristine environment of the fish. It was established with a primary goal in mind: “To produce sustainable Barramundi crops free from all contaminants.” This turned into an idea that spanned 20 years R&D that evolved into Swift Grow — the only organic solution that restores the depleted natural soil microbiology, achieves optimum crop yield, and ticks all the economic and environmental benefits.
The niche Spinifex Energy has been steadily working towards for the last four and a half years is battery storage. Spinifex Energy can think of no possible scenario where battery storage won’t be required at scale across the globe, and the business plans to be a national provider of elite design, procurement and construction services to the market, first bringing renewable energy to remote Queensland communities.
