sustainability
The 5th annual Angel Investor Conference to focus on sustainability of investment
Sustainability of investment is the main focus of the 5th Annual National Angel Investor Conference. The Melbourne Angels are inviting entrepreneurs to come, collaborate, hear about the latest industry trends and learn of smart investment oppourtunities.
Submit your sustainability-related problem to Deakin University post graduate students
Deakin University is preparing a 5-day intensive workshop for its post graduate students, and if you’re an entrepreneur they need your help. Entrepreneurs are invited to submit their sustainability-related problem as a key challenge for a unique workshop. How does it work? A team of students will focus on your challenge while being mentored by professional leaders. They will develop of a solution and present it to a panel of judges who will award cash prizes.
Meet Change2, Anthill 2010 Cool Company Award Finalist [Global Growth Award Category]
Change2 provides an online educations program for large Australian companies that want to make deep, lasting changes in environmental sustainability. Teaching companies how to introduce sustainable practices, by helping organisations reduce their carbon commissions, Change2 is also helping the world become a cooler place… quite literally.
Breed Lewis, 2010 Anthill 5over50 Winner
Breed Lewis’ entrepreneurial rebirth happened after she was retrenched in 2009. She took advantage of her over-55 status and started drawing her superannuation while firing up her new business. “Others may have felt like a victim being retrenched at that age, but I felt it was my lucky break,” she says.
Green companies have lower overheads, says VECCI
Participants in the “Grow Me the Money” program saved an average of $8,619 on their utility bills this year, ending June 30, compared the previous year. The firms also saved an average of 78.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide, a one-year improvement of 29 percent. That’s the equivalent of taking 18 cars off the road.
How to get the clothes off your employees
What happens when a clothing swap takes up shop in your company’s break room? The Clothing Exchange, a five-year-old Melbourne-based company, is selling the idea by promoting swaps in corporate environments. And while the concept itself may not be revolutionary, it could give employees a creative outlet for expanding their fashion and social consciences.
Seeing the wood AND the trees: Why Andrew Grant sees ‘carbon sinks’ when he thinks of forests [PODCAST]
Andrew Grant is chief executive of CO2 Australia Limited, the market leader in the establishment and management of major reforestation projects, forests that operate as carbon sinks, absorbing carbon dioxide to lessen the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate. He talks about the challenges and opportunities of carbon trading schemes.
Abu Dhabi plans the world’s first zero-carbon eco-city
The United Arab Emirates built the obscenely ostentatious Dubai with oil money that its leaders realised was running out. Now that the hard times have hit, Abu Dhabi is placing its chips on sustainability.
Saving the world with behavioural economics
A recent study revealed that adding personalised smiley or unhappy face icons on people’s energy bills had a dramatic effect on their future consumption. Could something this simple — playing on bourgeois guilt — help reverse climate change?
Melbourne to lead Australia with green building retrofit initiative
The City of Melbourne announced yesterday that it aims to retrofit two thirds of the city’s commercial buildings in a huge sustainability initiative.
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