Recently I sold my first tech startup company (CVSDude) which was in the cloud computing space. Since then I’ve sat back and though how can I combine my two passions for technology and the environment. I first came across the idea of collaborative consumption a few years back and the concept really appealed to me, [...]

“We are at the start of the ‘Big Shift’ away from the 20th century defined by hyper-consumption towards the 21st century, an age of Collaborative Consumption. But just how LARGE and FAR-REACHING is this groundswell? ” A different way of looking at it.

Interesting meetings and talks are happening at the moment. Let me share what has happened since my last time agenda setting and share some of the entrepreneurial thinking around GEF and nice people you meet on the way: # Next week I am going to pitch the idea of the Social Business Startup Camp (SBSC) [...]

Read the complete GreEn Newsletter here. Dear GreEn Community, Hello and welcome to the latest (and long overdue!) GEF GreEn Forum Newsletter. A lot’s happened in the last six months! After the Co-creation Workshop in Brussels in December, we all discovered the BIG gap between talking about ‘entrepreneurship’ and being entrepreneurial. So, that in mind, [...]

Watch our exclusive interview with Tobias Martens and learn more about his exciting new project, the Social Business Innovators Startup Camp. In his words, “it’s all about the people”.

Collaboration is the key to unlocking the potential of green entrepreneurship. And in that spirit GEF is seeking to practice what we preach by looking for collaboration with likeminded partners. In all these endeavours you, the Forum Members are our greatest asset – your views, experience and insights are what we can uniquely bring to [...]

Last week, I took part in a really interesting conference/workshop in London – the Smart CSOs (Civil Society Organisations) Initiative – that gave me lots of hope and energy! “This Initiative, led by WWF-UK with the support from CSCP, is a community of practice consisting of +/- 100 leaders from civil society organisations, academics and [...]

Following the Forum on Green Entrepreneurship that was held in Brussels last December, I was asked to elaborate a dedicated harvest on what it takes to support sustainable entrepreneurship from the angle of economics. I took up this exercise pretty willingly, keeping in mind, that standing out of the “wheel reinvention” approach will be more [...]

The Social Business Innovators Startup Camp is a project idea  developed at the GreEn Forum Workshop. It is the result of an ongoing collaboration of bright minds thinking, discussing, co-working, inspiring, exchanging and innovating. Update 2011-03-08: The draft program has recently been released. Download the pdf here. The core concept: Turning social innovators into sustainable [...]

Hello, fellow entrepreneurs. My name is Aleya Jobson. I am not the most fashionable person. I cannot tell you when sales on the new designer collection at H&M happens nor the names of very many fashion designers. Still, I like to have choice when I open my closet and I like to feel both comfortable [...]