THE GREAT TRANSITION & CSO movement

Mar 21 2011 in Idea Incubator by Elise, GEF Team

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 [...]

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The Blue Economy: New Way of Designing Business

Jan 20 2011 in Business Skills, Idea Incubator by GEF

The Vision of The Blue Economy is to create 100 million sustainable jobs by 2020. According to them the key is in the innovation. How and Why? Watch and see…

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Building Biodiversity Business

Jan 19 2011 in Reports by GEF

Joshua Bishop, Sachin Kapila, Frank Hicks, Paul Mitchell and Francis Vorhies created before some time an interesting report, which we wanted to introduce you: Building Biodiversity Business. Here is an abstract from its conclusion: “Experience suggests that the biggest barriers to change are fixed ideas, habits and inertia, including the notion that biodiversity is best [...]

IBM initiatives to engage on sustainability

Dec 30 2010 in Competitions by Lucy, GEF GreEn Team

Are you a start up? With your own company which is in action for less than 3 years? And you’re actively engaged in developing a software-based product or service? If the answer is yes to all of the questions above, then first sign up in the IBM PartnerWorld network. Then you can gain access to [...]

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Interview with Philippe Woitrin, CEO of Hain Celestial Group / Lima Food

Dec 16 2010 in Books and Articles, Events, Personal Skills by GEF

VIDEO INTERVIEW with Philippe Woitrin, CEO of Hain Celestial Group / Lima Food during the Networking event of the GEF Co-Creation Workshop on GreEn.

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Interview with Olivier Marquet, Managing Director at Triodos NV Belgium

Dec 16 2010 in Books and Articles, Events, Personal Skills by GEF

VIDEO INTERVIEW with Olivier Marquet, managing director at Triodos NV Belgium, during the Networking event of the GEF Co-Creation Workshop on GreEn.

Kristiina Pietikäinen about the sustainable development through Green ICT

Dec 10 2010 in Books and Articles, Events by Lucy, GEF GreEn Team

AUDIO INTERVIEW with Kristiina Pietikäinen, a Policy Officer – Digital Agenda from the The Information Society and Media DG of the EC

Reports from the Open Space of the Co-Creation Workshop on GreEn

Dec 9 2010 in Business Skills, Case Studies, Personal Skills, Reports by Lucy, GEF GreEn Team

Open publication – Free publishing – More reports

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How I work against Global Warming?!!

Nov 12 2010 in Business Skills, Idea Incubator by Angel

Hello everyone! I’m so happy to write to this blog! My name is Angel and I’m from Bulgaria, which is in Eastern Europe, where people doesn’t care that much about Global Warming! Anyway I think we all need to work against it, cause this is our planet. Doesn’t matter in what economy situation is any [...]

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Ghana Entrepreneur Awards

Nov 11 2010 in Competitions, Personal Skills by Michael

Accra, Nov. 9, GNA – Ghana Entrepreneur Awards (GEA) has been scheduled for April 15, 2011 in Accra to commemorate World Entrepreneurship Day. World Entrepreneurship Day (WED) is a 24-hour world-wide celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation. These are contained in a statement signed by Sam Ato Gaisie, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Entrepreneurs Foundation [...]