Since Februry 2010, The Blue Economy – Report to the Club of Rome 100 innovations – presents every week a sustainable business model. The case #50 has just been released: ‘Manufacturing without Molds‘ Have you ever realized how many objects of everyday use, made of plastics or metal, have been manufactured in molds? One single [...]

Dear Friends! In connection with the research (as part of the final thesis of 5th year student, Department of Sociology) you are invited to fill out a questionnaire (confidentiality guaranteed) that will provide us with complete picture of this subject. Thank you in advance! The survey can be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dDJmbW1VV2tvdUhBekl6aEVoMjdSeUE6MQ I will really appreciate [...]

Dear all, here you can find the link to our GEF Summit Baseline and to the Values – 2010 GEF Summit on Green Entrepreneurship surveys! Underneath you can see the results of the GEF Summit Baseline Survey. Open publication – Free publishing – More survey

Dear GreEn Community, I am happy to share the latest tool for improved real-time co-creation on the digital platform of the GEF Forum on Green Entrepreneurship with you! From today on, we’re going to publish special Polls, connected with understanding the needs of young people through our big international community. Let us explore together what [...]

Just returning from the Startup Weekend Nürnberg 2010 I am bringing you some delightful ideas for social businesses. One of the ideas that we have been working on is a company, that provides a mobile phone software and a crowd-sourcing powered database to identify food that causes people to have an allergic reaction. It works [...]

By Jay Caetano, TechSquirt,  25 August 2010 New research from Sony Europe reveals: 6 in 10 children across Europe think that conflicting messages about the environment is confusing, leading them to feel helpless and apathetic about protecting their environment A quarter of European children don’t know how to get involved with environmental issues and don’t [...]

Echoing Green has identified three emerging trends, based on a survey carried out among semi-finalists for its fellowship programme: Social entrepreneurs are attracted to solving the world’s most difficult problems early in their career. Social entrepreneurs are blurring the lines between nonprofit and for profit experience and are often serial entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are on [...]

‘Test-idea’ is an online-questionnaire that will help you identifying your business idea’s threats and opportunities. Your skills as an entrepreneur will be evaluated along with your project’s strengths and weaknesses. Visit Test Idea website (source: Test Idea)

Economic recovery to a greener economy: mobilizing ICT-based innovations – The ICT sector is the motor of green innovation: it employs nearly 7% of the workforce, generates over 6% of GDP and has contributed over 40% to productivity growth in the last decade. It contributes over 30% of all investment in R&D, and attracts over [...]

How companies manage sustainability – More than 50 percent of executives consider sustainability – the management of environmental, social, and governance issues – “very” or “extremely” important in a wide range of areas, including new-product development, reputation building, and overall corporate strategy, according to the latest McKinsey survey. Read full article. (source: McKinsey Quarterly.)