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Tale of Two Farms

Cultivating a Sustainable Movement Christina and Rebecca looked at each other. Misfortunate had ambushed their family farm just a month prior, and the youn...

Jamaican Sustainable Entrepreneur Ensures Paradise is Not Lost

Carol Lue teaching students at a local high school about CaribShare This is a story about giving.  Meet Carol Lue the founder of CaribShare Biogas in Jama...
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Sailing a Sustainable Enterprise

This is a story about Vision. Without vision or a point on the horizon, a sailboat can travel leagues without making progress toward a specific destination...
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A Cleaner World, One Bar of Soap at a Time

This is a story about connecting the dots. Samir Lakhani was building fish ponds in northern Cambodia, part of a project designed to help remote, rural vil...
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Sustainable Entrepreneur Puts Oumph! into Plant-Based Food

This is a story about audacity.   Our story’s protagonist is Anders “The Duck” Linden, a Swedish chef, environmentalists and rebel.   In 1995, Chef Linden ...
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An Entrepreneur’s Solution to the Caribbean’s PET Peeve

Anderson Wellington of the Caribbean is visionary, a entrepreneur, and committed to leaving a healthy planet to the next generation.   He is founder of th...

An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Create a Sustainable and Thriving Tanzania

This is a story about making a difference in one’s community and country. Patricia Patrice Majule is a 25-year-old native of Tanzania, and founder of Uniqu...
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A Sustainable Entrepreneur’s Hunger for Change

Nidhi Pant has long had a passion for creating change. After devastating floods in 2013 in her home region of India, she decided that her life goal would b...
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An Entrepreneur Connects Sustainability, Happiness and Architecture in Bhutan

Deependra Pourel believe that sustainability, happiness, and architecture are inextricably linked. Located in the Southern Himalayas, Bhutan is a rugged an...
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Friendship as the Foundation for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Friendship. In cultures all around the world, friendship is considered as essential to the human experience as water and oxygen. It’s a fundamental element...
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The power of a Sustainable Brand in the Community Solar Space

Community solar is the hottest vertical in the solar space and every company with any connection to delivering power from the sun is racing to be out front...
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Four Types of Innovators at the Idea Factory – Which Are You?

“Eureka!” exclaimed Archimedes when he stepped into a tub of water. The great ancient mathematician suddenly understood the volume of water displaced equal...
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Solar Energy Potential in Brazil

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.   Guilherme Correa, sustainable entrepreneur from Brazil, is a quintessential example of an intrepid entrepreneur w...