Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 12, 2022

Investing in a Sustainable Future. Innovators from across the region work hard to reduce carbon emissions, create new green technologies, and launch solutions for humans, wildlife, and ecosystems to adapt to a changing climate.??? This YLAI Fellow is influencing sustainable behavior in his Dominican Repub. Modal Close Button.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

EO’s quarterly Impact Day events, as part of the sustainability plan, including “Reimagine Success” and “Designing Your Future,” focus on our planet and the vital role businesses play in building a sustainable future. The following is a summary of EO’s sustainability framework. EO member engagement is key.

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Venture Well

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To help faculty engage students in green design methods, we spotlight key exercises from the Tools for Design and Sustainability course, developed by Dr. Jeremy Faludi of Delft University of Technology. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Circular Economy—Design for a Lifetime appeared first on VentureWell.

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Venture Well

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Learn how to teach students to incorporate green materials into their inventions with exercises from the Tools for Design and Sustainability. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Green Materials—How To Build Better appeared first on VentureWell.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Register Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ( Mosti ) plans to push emerging technology and promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education within the framework of Budget 2024. Minister Chang Lih Kang has outlined these focus areas in Mosti’s budgetary proposals.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The NYC Fintech Innovation Lab is a program which accepts fintech entrepreneurs to develop their businesses with the assistance of senior execs at the leading NYC banks and insurance companies. If you are building a fintech company and are focused on one or more of these areas, you should consider applying.

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Venture Well

JULY 29, 2021

Lauren Choi of The New Norm is protecting the environment by transforming plastic Solo cups into an innovative wearable fabric for the fashion industry. The post weaving sustainability into fashion: q&a with Lauren Choi of The New Norm appeared first on VentureWell.

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Venture Well

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Jeremy Faludi's Tools for Design and Sustainability includes a guide to teaching green principles in innovation and entrepreneurship courses. The post Teaching Green: Integrating Sustainability Principles into I&E Curriculum appeared first on VentureWell.

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Venture Well

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Through sustainable sports product design, Dr. Susan Sokolowski helps students create innovations that can protect the environment and transform the sports industry. The post infusing sustainability into sports product design: a q&a with Dr. Susan Sokolowski of University of Oregon appeared first on VentureWell.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 2, 2022

My role is co-founder of the new Corporate Innovation division where we help mature, services-based businesses increase their valuations and impact by 5x through digital innovation. I am excited and honored by the opportunity to build out this new division of PixelEdge and help more companies embrace the power of innovation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. With this sustainability-focused accelerator, Techstars is hitting the reboot button. Every year, Techstars Sustainability Paris plans to accept 24 startups across two batches.

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Venture Well

JULY 7, 2020

Taryn Mead of Western Colorado University teaches students entrepreneurship concepts through an environmental innovation lens, helping them envision their contribution to a more sustainable future.

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Source Link

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle? This approach has resulted in sustainable success for IASourceLink. Building collaborations can spark, spur, and sustain economic growth. SourceLink has demonstrated success helping communities build and grow sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

Beleaf is a sustainable fashion company that uses scraps to “upcycle” and create new clothing and accessories. Through years of production and education, the community has begun to reflect sustainable values by creating their own clothes through upcycling old materials. What is Beleaf? Tackling challenges: COVID-19 and beyond.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. Green Circle Salons provide the world’s first sustainable salon solution to recover and repurpose beauty waste. Describe where the beauty industry as a whole is regarding sustainability and environmental concerns.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Faculty can use biomimicry to teach sustainable design principles to students who are looking to solve the challenges of the climate crisis. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Biomimicry—Using Nature’s Blueprints appeared first on VentureWell.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2023

The event’s theme revolves around the Southeast Asia ecosystem’s transition to a more sustainable model, addressing the challenges and opportunities ahead. One of the event highlights is the highly popular TOP100 Stage, where the region’s top startups are recognized for their excellence and innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. If you are simultaneously interested and confused by sustainability, you are not alone. billion in sales. Start small and simple.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In a world fraught with food supply chain challenges, innovation is the key to progress. From tackling food waste and enhancing sustainability to reimagining urban farming, these projects are pioneering solutions that promise a brighter and more sustainable future for our global food ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Copenhagen-based startup announced the acquisition of fellow Danish fintech Gaia Investments this week with plans to integrate the trading platform, which focuses on investing in companies with sustainability goals, into its app. “As the talks progressed, it became more and more clear it was a great move for us.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 10, 2023

Register The highly anticipated in-person third edition of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) Asia’s foremost annual gathering for technology and innovation, commenced with grandeur in Macau today, on May 10. Over 800 exhibitors from 120 countries have converged for the event from May 10 to 12.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

And you can leverage two very powerful forms of innovation, sustaining innovation and efficiency innovation, to scale your business. Sustaining innovation Sustaining innovation grows a business’s share of an existing market. Intercom is currently estimated to be worth US$10.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. The company is driving change in the industry through the open sourcing of materials for others to benefit, and in doing so, is becoming the industry’s standard bearer on sustainability practices. The fashion industry alone dumps 2.1

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Source Link

OCTOBER 13, 2021

and abroad with entrepreneurship at the forefront, it’s more important than ever to rethink and reboot as one global ecosystem to support a more sustainable and equitable world. As the economy continues to recover in the U.S. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021: November 8-14. Register here: [link].

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Startup Blogpost

JUNE 9, 2023

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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Impact Hub

JULY 27, 2022

July 2022 – Social and Technological Innovation Factory for Low-Carbon and Circular Industrial Value Chains , or SoTecIn Factory, is a new project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. Afterwards, the industry players will present real-life challenges and sustainability issues that require innovative solutions.

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Feedough

APRIL 8, 2021

Earth can recover only with the human spirit’s resilience and innovations in seeking solutions and rebuilding after disturbances. One such innovation is green innovation. With an upsurge in green consumers, many companies are now shifting to green innovation to contribute to creating a greener future.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 31, 2021

How can we reinvent packaging for a more sustainable and better future? At Impact Hub, we are excited to team up once again with IKEA of Sweden, this time to find the innovators and disruptors of the packaging sector. After a successful Food Innovation Program , applications are now open to the IKEA Packaging Innovation Program.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

Everyone is bullish on planet-forward innovation right now. So we asked Revolution Growth Partner, Kristin Gunther , Revolution Ventures Partner, Clara Sieg , and Rise of the Rest Principal, Mahati Sridhar , for their thoughts on the current and future state of climate innovation. Here’s what they had to say. “As

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In order to gain traction, earn revenue and turn a brand into a sustainable business, entrepreneurs must innovate. And in order to understand how to build innovative teams, it is important to first understand what innovation means. Here, we take a deeper look at what it takes to build innovative teams. INNOVATION.

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Venture Well

MAY 27, 2021

Iconic Air has developed an air quality monitoring device and software platform that gathers and analyzes the vital sustainability metrics that oil and gas companies need to reach their environmental goals.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A number of startups and entrepreneurial initiatives working to address challenges in the transport sector have been approved for funding in round one of the Waka Kotahi Hoe ki angitū- Innovation Fund , with a second round of challenges now announced. It will support a range of private and non-government sector innovators and innovations.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Register In July’s end, an Egyptian governmental delegation toured Pangyo Techno Valley, Korea’s premier innovation hub, seeking insights into its unparalleled growth. Their vision extends beyond creating a mere technological hub – they aim for a self-sustaining, progressive environment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r

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