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WHAT is Environmental Enterprise?

“To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative.” Paul Hawken, Ecology of Commerce. WHAT is Environmental Enterprise?.

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WHAT is Environmental Enterprise?

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  1. “To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative.” Paul Hawken, Ecology of Commerce

  2. WHAT is Environmental Enterprise? • Enterprise / business where the product or service provides a sustainable environmental solution or alternative.

  3. Environmental Enterprise Examples • Solar drying • Bee-keeping products • Fruit juice and fruit products

  4. Environmental Enterprise Examples • Rainwater Barrel Collection Businesses • Biodiesel & Vegetable Oil Engines • Bicycles as Alternative Transport

  5. Environmental Enterprise Examples • Eco-Tourism / Geo-Tourism • Edible seaweed collection

  6. Growing Jatropha plants and processing oil from seeds for lamp fuel

  7. NOT only new technologies, but also … traditional methods of doing things

  8. We believe …. • - Youth need to be true project partners • - Youth are sources of innovation & knowledge

  9. Youth Environmental Enterprise Training Programs

  10. Peer teaching and mentoring

  11. Environmental Entrepreneurship Clubs at Schools

  12. Study Tours to learn about market potential

  13. Self-managed Savings and Credit Groups (Savings-led MicroFinance)

  14. “A greening of the human mind must precede the greening of the earth” M.S. Swaminathan

  15. Facilitating the preparation of Environmental Enterprise Plans for communities

  16. Local Collaborative Learning Clusters - Environmental Enterprise Development Initiatives (EEDIs)

  17. Selecting business ideas • Value Chain Market development approach • Select industries that growing, large potential for MSEs and youth participation • Consider all levels of chain, not just MSE level (vertical and horizontal linkages)

  18. www.eco-ventures.org

  19. "If you change the way you look at things … the things you look at change”

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