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Social entrepreneurs want sustainable change -- WBCSD water project

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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global advocacy coalition of 200 firms promoting sustainable development. Firms include Dow, Rio Tinto, Shell DuPont, EDF, IBM, Pepsico and Swarovski. Joppe Cramwinckel is water project director for the group. Credit: Julie Mollins
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AMBCCTV Eco-Entrepreneurship Training-Sustainable Success .mp4

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The Atlanta Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce's Council of Ecopreneurs inconjuction with the DeKalb Microenterprise Institute will launch a five part training series design specifically for Entrepreneurs seeking to create, establish and grow a sustainable enterprise. . Course Objectives The primary goal of the initiative is to help entrepreneurs create businesses that are both economically and environmentally sustainable. Provide cutting-edge training for entrepreneurs to develop innovative environmentally friendly businesses. Introduction of business opportunities in the sustainable sector Cost: Opening Session FREE
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E4S Entrepreneurs for Sustainability - What's Green in Cleveland?

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www.e4s.org E4S Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Cleveland Green Hero Marketing talks to Cleveland area green businesses and green non-profit volunteers at a local E4S meeting. What's Green in Cleveland? Well, a lot!
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Social Entrepreneurship: Innovation in Related to Poverty Reduction—Including Two Successful Case

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According to Bygrave and Zacharakis (2010) and quoting Joseph Schumpeter, Entrepreneurship can be understood as the process of changing the economy through innovation in products, services, production or organizational methods, to which we can add the component risk and uncertainty, reported by Dollinger (2003). The social entrepreneurs' aim of their activity, rather than generating income, is the contribution to solving the key problems affecting society, through innovative and effective solutions. One such problem is poverty, and according to the UNDP Millennium Report there are still 1200 million people in the world living with less than 1.25 dollars a day (extreme poverty) and things can go worse with the predictable increase in the food prices. Participants will understand the concept of social entrepreneurship related to poverty reduction, considering sustainable development, population increase, utilitarianism and the millennium goals and including how two different organizations, based in different continents, act in order to reduce poverty and help to achieve sustainability. Innovation in social entrepreneurship related to poverty reduction - an approach based in the social entrepreneurship considering sustainable development, population increase, utilitarianism and the Millennium Development Goals - will be explored and two case studies will be seen. We\'ll see how two different organizations, one based in Europe, the other based in North America, act in order ...
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E4S Trailer

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Short Trailer Highlighting Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
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Ivan Storck: Sustainable Entrepreneur

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Ivan runs his businesses, Sustainable Marketing and Sustainble Websites, out of Citizen Space, one of several co-working spaces cropping up in San Francisco. As a small business owner in the valley of tech giants, Ivan is working to create a community of creative and green entrepreneurs who are not exactly competing, but propping each other up. Ivan shares his enthusiasm for green energy credits, carbon offsets and the triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit.
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NASA, Entrepreneurs "Launch" Water Sustainability Effort

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NASA and its partners kicked off a series of forums to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges. The new initiative is called Launch. Hosted by NASA's Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, the first Forum was called "Launch: Water," and was held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from March 16-18.
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Your World, Your Business: inspiring young entrepreneurs to build a better tomorrow.

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Launch of a major new European initiative to inspire today's young people to become the creative, dynamic and responsible entrepreneurs of the future. World premiere of films, plenty of networking opportunities, and engaging speakers from the worlds of entrepreneurship and sustainability.
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Emily Cummins, Sustainable Designer (Inspiring Entrepreneurs - Teenpreneurs)

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Emily Cummins is a 19-year-old Technology Woman of the Future 2006 and the inventor of a solar-powered refrigerator that can transform rural communities in Africa. Part of the Inspiring Entrepreneurs series, in partnership with HSBC, the world's local bank.
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2011 NEXT Awards - Entrepreneur of the Year Sustainability Finalists

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The Nashville Area Chamber and the Entrepreneur Center presented the inaugural NEXT Awards on Oct. 18, 2011. In this video, the three finalists in the Entrepreneur of the Year - Sustainability category discuss their companies.
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Key Traits of Social Entrepreneurs

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An interview with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility. Social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results -- and capturing the imaginations of businesspeople and public policy makers.
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