Sustainable Supply Chain Development

Fair Trade: Fair e-Shop

Fair Trade is an alternative trade strategy based on the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. Is a win-win relationship for all stakeholders: the producer wins when receiving a fair price for his/her production and work; the consumer wins when the product or service paid does not damage his/her health; the planet wins since the product does not damage water sources nor forests; the community wins since this practice generates employment; finally, the country wins through taxes, we all win.

10 reasons why it is fair:

1. Allows producers a direct access to markets in more equal conditions
2. Creates a relationship between the consumer and the producer based on solidarity and mutual social, economic, and environmental responsibility.
3. The lowest price is not the priority in this relationship of respect.
4. Promotes local production and combats extortion against workers in other latitiudes.
5. Avoids profit made by intermediaries based on small producers´ vulnerability
6. By knowing the producer, it avoids child exploitation
7. Respects the environment, utilizes less pesticides and decreases the risk of intoxication for producers and consumers.
8. Small producers earn profits from their work and not intermediaries
9. Encourages the consumer´s research and knowledge when buying
10. It transports you to the reality of unknown people and places

e-Fair Shop

In April 1969, the first fair shop was opened in Breukelen, Holland.   Only two years later, the Netherlands had 120 fair shops opened country-wide. The wave expanded rapidly to most European countries. Ecuador is one of Latin America´s leading countries in fair trade. Nearly, 400 organizations are part of this supply chain that moves over $30 million USD every year and involve over 100,000 producers. Our goal is to leverage the power of technology to strenghten this supply chain, create new ones, involve new partners, and expand it at a regional level through our fair e-shop.

Related Projects:

• Organic Agriculture
• National Park Initiative
• Sustainable Housing

Corporate Social Responsability

Global Warming forces an integral and innovative vision for business. Our goal is to assist the corporation transformation process to achieve the triple bottom line from within the corporation strategic goals. Three steps.

Dissemination:
We seek responsible corporations in developing countries with best practices to be disseminated.

Network:
As part of Net Impact Ecuador, we want to enhance a network of professionals, students, and corporations interested in achieving the triple bottom line.

Action:
Corporate Volunteer Programs Triple Salto supplies technical assistance to communities, municipalities, and corporations to achieve their strategic social responsibility and the triple bottom line: planet, profit, and people.  A 25 year Gallup Study shows that the key to success is making sure you have the talents and the capability to stimulate them and maintain them. Our tailored corporate programs involve a research of how to link initiatives abroad to your vision and mission. This is not just a leisure trip, but the most efficient and fun way for your staff to engage to the company’s goals and for the corporation to grow talents up.

• Contact Us
• Join Net Impact Ecuador
• Best Practices: send us your story

Habitat

Boost environmental, energy, and social sustainability as a cross-cutting feature in housing and urban planning while promoting conservation of national parks as a competitiveness advantage and a brand of quality of life locally and world-wide..​.

Sustainable Housing

48% of gases produced by the greenhouse effect are produced by homes and buildings. Sustainable Housing involves a debate around energy, incorporation of housing with landscape, and a sustainable supply chain for the development sector. Triple Salto seeks to:

• Initiate a debate that leads eventually to the implementation of public policies for Sustainable Housing.
• Consolidate construction sustainable materials in a supply chain.
• Finally, provide technical assistance to the public and private sectors to achieve this goal.

Urban Regeneration

Is a dynamic process that integrates history, environment, landscape, architecture, economy, and security of a place and its inhabitants to recreate a space for the wellbeing. The goal is to take advantage of urban regeneration as an opportunity to create public spaces and sustainable housing to see the city through the eyes of innovation, urban agriculture, its own history, and diversity.

National Parks

Ecuador is one of the 17 most megadiverse nations in the planet.
“Just as the G-7 countries concentrate a major portion of the world’s economic wealth, the 17 Megadiversity Countries have within their borders more than two thirds of our planet’s biological wealth, its biodiversity”
Dr. Russell A. Mittermeier
Conservation International President

http://www.conservation.org/documentaries/Pages/megadiversity.aspx

The megadiverse countries are a group of 17 countries that harbor the majority of the Earth’s species. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre, an agency of the United Nations Environment Programme approaches at biodiversity priorities by political units, sovereign nations, rather than by ecosystems. Madagascar, Philippines, and Ecuador pack high diversity into relatively small land areas. Megadiversity therefore, becomes a key long-term economic asset for these countries and a shared global responsability.

Public Policy

Proposals that leverage both public and private sector capacities to magnify the impact of public policies.

Research For Change

Our team promotes research that adds value to current policies with the potential to benefit larger populations. Furthermore, we believe that research is the basis of change. The innovation capacity of public policy lies on the possibility of integrating the views of multiple stakeholders.

Technical Assistance

Provide technical assistance to government institutions, corporations, and social organizations to achieve the triple bottom line in project, program, and policy design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

Triple Salto’s philosophy is to boost alliances with national and international experts and think tanks that promote this vision and count with a proven trajectory in our action areas to build and strenghten strategic capacities.  This effort focuses mainly in local governments, corporations and micro enterprises that seek to incorporate the triple bottom line as their organization’s strategy.

• Business Plans: We support business plan design and implementation for micro enterprises and start ups.
• Projects: We provide support for design of public project and program as a strategy to achieve government policies.
• Strategic Alliances: We support identification of potential national and international partners from both the public and private sectors as well as follow up negotiation processes that will lead towards a common ground for initiative sustainability.

Cooperation

• Public-private alliances :
  Triple Salto considers public-private alliances strategic to leverage each one’s capacities and strengths in a systematic feedback process for innovation.
• International Aid:
  There are international resources to strenghten public policy prioritary areas and consolidate responsible corporations. Our role is to provide technical assistance to build solid proposals that can compete at a world-wide level.
• Corporate Social Responsability:
  Global Warming forces an integral and innovative vision for business. Our goal is to assist the corporation transformation process to achieve the triple bottom line from within the corporation strategic goals.

Responsible Tourism

Ecuador is one of the 17 most megadiverse countries in the world. Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors world-wide and has the potential to boost wellness locally.

Our proposal is to promote a tourist sustainable supply chain to increase local opportunities and sustainability for unique ecosystems.

Internships:

We look for dreamers, explorers that need to change the world and make it a better place.

• Programs & Calendar

Fund Raising Expeditions

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Global Citizenship and Volunteerism

Develop a permanent exchange of experience and skills to create solid ties of peace and sustainability in the long term.

Participate in work journeys with rural and urban communities and join a network of people that believe in each individual capacity to change the world. You can participate individually, with a group, or with your organization.

Type of Support:

Know-How	Disseminate your expertise to communities that require your capacity and experience to propel their ideas and initiatives.
On site work	Participate with urban and rural communities to implement their projects.
Spread the word	Support Triple Salto to strengthen our media strategy. Talk, facebook, text, twitter about what we are doing and your work with us to your personal network.

Type of Volunteer: Our projects run permanently:

Individual, Group, Organization

Programs

• Summer Internship
• Spring Break Internship
• Ongoing interships

Open projects for Volunteers

• Organic Agriculture
• National Parks
• Triple Salto
• Mira Research Station
• Eat, Play, Read
• Corporate Volunteer Programs
• e-Fair Shop