Social Entrepreneurs: Environment
Virtually every business gets shipments and ends up with lots of boxes which can be difficult and expensive to get rid of. At the same time, people pay high prices for new moving and shipping boxes when used boxes can do the job. BoxCycle connects people with boxes, with people who need boxes. And everyone benefits, including the environment.
An unlikely love story has transformed American social entrepreneur Richard Abramson into an organic farmer in Northeast Thailand. He is now teaching more people to live in harmony with nature, with the help of his wife, Pongpen.
Farouk Jiwa, Co-Founder of Honey Care Africa has created a Kenyan enterprise that promotes small scale community based beekeeping as an environmentally sustainable income generating opportunity in East Africa.
The New Venture Fund in Mexico provides access to sources of capital and strategic consulting services to budding entreprenuers, to help create sustainable businesses that combines profitability with social responsibility
Chris Campbell, Founder and CEO of GreenWerks, has created a company ahead of the curve by providing green building solutions to Chicago’s residents and businesses.
Dr Reza Azmi and his team at Wild Asia scouts for the very best in eco-tourism around Asia for the annual Responsible Tourism Awards. The 2008 winners ranged from a community-run homestay in the Himalayas to a luxury resort in Thailand. Wild Asia will challenge you to rethink travel.
Food#03 is a vegetarian café, an artwork and a social enterprise by Singaporean artist Woon Tien Wei. It explores the possibilities of combining food and art in creating of a sustainable social business that supports the community and the environment.
Aferdita Syla created a safe and healthy environment for Albanian, Roma and Serb youths to take part in activities together at the Gjilan Youth Center. Founded in November 1999, the center was among the first to organize multiethnic youth activities, and to promote the well-being of youths after the war in Kosovo.
Singaporean Diana Saw started Bloom Bags to provide gainful employment to poor Cambodian women by producing eco-friendly bags. She now plans to develop a worker's cooperative to give the women full ownership and control of the business.
Daycha Siripatra, environmentalist and founder of the Khao Kwan Foundation, is teaching rice farmers in Thailand to abandon chemical inputs and naturally improve their yields with the help of birds, insects and micro-organisms.