Open Groups

JC COIL conducts Zero Carbon Pitch on a cycle basis, motivating public with innovative low-carbon ideas to join the competition as a team and compete for various awards. Our previous winning teams are as follows.

If you want to support them or collaborate with them, please email to info@ccinnolab.org

 

Techpower Creative

(Phase II: Cycle 4)

Techpower Creative promotes solar exhaust fans, hoping to bring the concept of environmental protection into domestic setting. It is hoped that the total electricity consumption of the exhaust fans in Hong Kong will eventually be reduced.

The team won the “Best of Open Group Award” in Zero Carbon Pitch on September 2019.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HKTECHPOWER/

 
Link The Unlink

(Phase II: Cycle 4)

Through the award-winning wooden liaison DIY design, old clothes and used bedsheets can be upcycled to make fashionable handbags and promote sustainable fashion.

The team won the “Best Climate Innovation Award” in Zero Carbon Pitch on September 2019.  

 
Plant Right Now

(Phase II: Cycle 3)

Plant Right Now concerns the development of organic farming in Hong Kong with a plan to launch the city’s first Farms Participatory Guarantee System (PGS). In the hope that strict quality assurance, fairness and transparency and involvement from multiple stakeholders could be achieved, the platform would not only provide certification services, but also strikes a balance between the suppliers and customers simultaneously. They have a strong belief in this media to be the future for our local organic industry.

The team won the “Best of Open Group Award” at Phase II Cycle 3. Recently, Plant Right Now joined “FarmFest 2019” with their farmer partners in promotion for the HKF-PGS system. They would also participate in the LOHAS Expo to extend their idea to a wider audience.  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plantrightnow/
 
Carbon Buster

(Phase II: Cycle 2)

Carbon Buster (previously known as Home Carbon Buster) aims to offer energy efficient technology and assistance in switching for energy saving devices to both households and commercial sector in order to lower the electricity fees and energy consumption of users, and to promote a low carbon and energy saving lifestyle. 

The team won the “Best of Open Group Award” at Phase II Cycle 2. And they established a company named Infinergy Power Limited in May 2018, providing solar panel installation and cleaning services.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Infinergyhk/

 
Recipio

(Phase II: Cycle 1)

Recipio launches a mobile finance-recording app that combines information on receipts to encourage users replace printed receipts with electronic ones so that the consumption of paper could be reduced.

Website: https://www.recipio.com/en/

 
Green Acts

(Phase II: Cycle 1)

Green Acts has a vision to celebrate eco-consumption through a mobile app that connects green retailers and consumers. At Phase II Cycle 1 of the competition, Green Acts and Worm Bin Man, an Inno Team, both won The Audience Popularity Award. The group participated in “4dbazaar” organized by VolTra in 2018 and designed the souvenirs and trophies for the event.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenActsHK/

 
Lastbutnotleast

(Phase I)

Since 2013, Lastbutnotleast cooperated with different NGOs, fashion brands and shopping malls to hold events in promotion of upcycling fashion, such as art exhibition, collaborative design collection, workshop, etc. In April 2018, Lastbutnotleast’s founder Toby Crispy and her partner Kay Wong set up Fashion Clinic, an organization providing services to answer fashion queries, give a new life to old clothing and more importantly push forward the concept of sustainability in fashion.  

The team stood out at Phase I of the competition and won the “Best of Open Group Award”.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FashionClinicOfficial/

Website: https://www.fashionclinic.co