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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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Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Bevon Charles in Grenada

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Bevon is the CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms and employs climate-smart agriculture to raise poultry, grow crops and create value-added products for hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and households across Grenada. The farm also operates sustainably, reducing the impact of agriculture on the environment.

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Easy Ways to Implement Sustainable Business Practices

StartupNation

So, there is growing consumer demand for business practices to become more sustainable. Therefore, actively changing business practices to more sustainable methods should be a no-brainer. Over time, you can change your practices to become even more sustainable. Purchase recycled and used items. Source your materials responsibly.

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Ecosia has started ploughing search ads profit into green energy

TechCrunch

Not-for-profit search engine Ecosia has started funnelling a portion of the profits it generates from serving ads against users’ searches into startups in the renewable energy space. “At the moment, we’re supporting renewable energy projects across Germany.

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Advancing social and environmental change in Argentina

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The YLAI Network interviewed Marcos to learn more about his various organizations, his advice to network members, and his entrepreneurial spirit. La Escombrera changed the rules of the game and has been successful in promoting sustainable products. I am taking some time to think about what my new sustainable and social goals will be.

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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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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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