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How Can I Make Sure My Startup is Environmentally Sustainable?

Startup Blogpost

How Can I Make Sure My Startup is Environmentally Sustainable? To help you ensure your startup is environmentally sustainable, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their best advice. You should also take the lead in making sustainability a priority in your business practices.

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Remodeling English language education in Costa Rica

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

When training other teachers, it is important for Alex to convey and encourage the same level of energy and passion that motivated him to start this school. Building sustainable societies. His advice to YLAI Network members looking to make a difference in their community is to really work hard to get to know their community first.

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Inspiring energy efficiency in Bolivia and avoiding corruption

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology. Educating against waste management. Educating against waste management.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walk

As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. I did this in part by defining my team’s culture as being outside-the-norm; I worked hard to make sure that my team felt special in the context of the larger organization.

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Why every Kiwi should back or build a startup

NZ Entrepreneur

New Zealand risks being left behind and missing our chance to be a rock-star sustainable economy; a nation creating exponential value and impact, grounded in our unique empathy for people and the planet. A cultural shift to encourage more entrepreneurialism and risk taking is a tough nut to crack but it can be and is being cracked.

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) This bass-ackwards energy policy does and will continue to produce high and rising fuel prices.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.