Social Entrepreneurs: 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.
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.
New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to keen environmentally-conscious people everywhere. Its selection of hand-picked mapmakers in 50 countries are responsible for the site's almost 500 maps, facilitating global sustainability from a grassroots level. Ethical stores, green spaces and recycling sites are just some of the sites the maps help people discover.
Geoffrey Cape, Co-founder and Executive Director of Evergreen in Toronto has ushered in the concept of harmonious integration of natural eco-systems into urban spaces in order to create healthy outdoor spaces.
Philips Laulia of the Vision Network Society is a young mechanical engineer who is introducing simple and eco-friendly solutions to poor Indonesian farmers struggling to survive on their lands.