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World Changing Ideas
In 2020, the #FCWorldChangingIdeas Awards seem more vital than ever. After receiving nearly 3,000 entries, these are the 26 winners and hundreds of finalists.
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Icon—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—has built a 3D printer so large it can print the walls of a house in 24 hours. Later this year, in a remote part of Southern Mexico, 50...
Abbott’s range of entries to Fast Company’s 2o20 World Changing Ideas Awards made it our selection for World Changing Company of the Year. While the company is currently a major player in helping ramp...
Planned Parenthood’s sex ed chatbot wasn’t getting enough questions, then a YouTube campaign called Roo High School—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—helped spread the word. Planned...
Carbon Lighthouse’s CLUES system—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Award—allows buildings to make automatic, real-time changes to save energy, by up to 30% on average. Stopping climate...
Food Rescue Hero—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is connecting Pittsburgh’s hungry to healthy produce. The goal is to move into 100 cities by 2030. And now it’s offering rides...
Aguahoja—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—rethinks the paradigm of recycling. Recycling plastic hasn’t been successful so far: Of the billions of tons of the material that have...
EVRYTHNG—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—wants to give every consumer good a digital identity, so both consumers and businesses know where an item comes from and where it’s...
The company—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—made waves in 2015 when it set a very high floor for the pay of all its workers. As it expands to a Boise office, it’s offering there...
#GiveAShit For Science—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—wants you to be a citizen scientist helping research gut health issues. It just requires a picture of your #2. If it’s...
The USee Vision Kit—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—helps aid workers in the developing world accurately fit people with glasses. In community centers and schools across Africa,...
The company—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—helps its clients like Chipotle, Disney, and Walmart offer free or reduced higher education to their employees, reducing turnover...
Heliogen—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—uses solar power to create the extreme temperatures needed to make steel or cement, which usually produce enormous amounts of emissions....
Inventia Rastrum—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—uses the technology of an inkjet printer to create lifelike human cell structures so biologists can see how drugs work on real...
By enabling farms to sell bulk orders of misshapen or excess produce to high-volume corporate clients, Full Harvest—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is hoping to cut prices increase...
Scanwell Health—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is helping to enable a switch to telehealth that’s not only doctor consultation, but testing as well. And it couldn’t be coming...
Invest Your Values—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is a digital tool that informs employees if their company’s 401ks are loaded with things such as gun or fossil fuel stocks...
After the release of the Oscar-winning film about a domestic worker, its production company designed a campaign—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—to make sure people know how...
After an amendment passed in Florida to restore voting rights to convicted felons, the governor signed a law saying they still had to pay often-onerous court fees. Free the Vote’s Florida Voting Rights...
SoCCs—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—let communities decide what tasks they need done (like tree planting or child tutoring) and then find ways to reward the people who take...
Common Roosevelt—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is building housing where several units share kitchens and common spaces. Affordable housing is notoriously expensive to build:...
The RN Advocate kit—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—focuses on giving nurses clear instructions on how to perform the procedures and patients clear explanations of what’s happening...
They’re called “empty miles” and they help add millions of tons of emissions to trucking’s emissions footprint. Convoy—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—has an app to help truckers...
The OACIS cooling platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—doesn’t use any toxic refrigerants to cool the air. Just one degree of latitude north of the Equator, Singapore is...
The ability to keep food and medicines fresh is a time-saver and a lifesaver. Youmma—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—is a fridge that can run in places that don’t yet have The...
Every time a seller on its platform ships a package to a buyer, Etsy—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—invests in renewable energy projects around the world. Now it wants to others...
After the U.S., Brazil is the number-two country for meat consumption, but many people are increasingly concerned about health and sustainability. Fazenda Futuro—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Ideas...