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For many different reasons, green entrepreneurship can play a major part in our future. The approach of green businesses creating value while reducing environmental impact is essential part of green economy.
As the exploitation of natural resources intensifies and the consequences of climate change become increasingly visible, sustainability becomes more and more important. Both individuals and businesses are recognizing the need for a greener approach. Companies are shifting their focus, prioritizing environmental sustainability alongside traditional economic goals. They are also considering more environmental dimensions and trying to achieve objectives like minimizing energy consumption and reducing their carbon footprint. Moreover, there are green entrepreneurs who are looking to make a better world with their business ideas.
There are rising numbers of startups and companies that are not only helping by achieving these green goals but also basing their business principles around sustainability. A good example is my adventure as a green entrepreneur with Green Cloud Nine, a digital marketplace that brings sustainable alternatives to everyone. I started this adventure because I wanted to help the transition to a fairer and more eco-friendly economy and society.
Many climate-warriors believe that green entrepreneurship is the answer. Let’s have a look at few companies that might inspire you:
1. Ocean Advocates
The Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) is a global community formed by young people, green entrepreneurs, and experts. The goal is to discuss and collaborate to solve the problems with our ocean.
This organization began in 2014 and was founded by college students at the University of Georgetown. In 5 years, they brought more than 6,000 people together from 165 countries. The initiative brought people together who are interested in finding solutions and creating a community to help the ocean.
Daniela V. Fernandez
All this success has been achieved thanks to many hardworking and green minded people. However, The main driving force behind the project has been the founder of this association, Daniela. She started just six years ago and has built SOA into an international organization that brings environmentalists together from all around the world to create innovative solutions.
For SOA, diversity in the team is very important. They believe it is important to bring young leaders, green entrepreneurs, advocates, and partners together who have the same goal to restore our ocean.
Their current projects consist of:
- Ocean leadership microgrants to support youth-led green ideas all over the planet.
- Campaign against Deep-Seabed Mining, as they believe that it’s an unjustified threat to the health of our ocean.
- Ocean Learning Labs Series, which consists of webinars that focus on ocean health and leadership, giving the opinions of experts on different topics, such as Plastics and the Ocean or Latin American Regional Ocean Issues.
2. Green Entrepreneurs in Renewables
Sunrun installed solar systems all across the United States. They have revolutionised the industry and the way that consumers generate and store electricity using home solar systems and batteries.
“The nation’s leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services company.”
Lynn Jurich, co-founder of Sun-run
Lynn Jurich
Lynn helped to create the business model of “solar-as-a-service”. Her goal is give easy access to clean and affordable energy on residential rooftops. Jurich believes that creating a sustainable planet is “both our greatest societal challenge and our greatest durable economic opportunity”.
As well as having a large potential to mitigate climate change, renewable energy can provide wider benefits.
Sun-run
3. Green Startup
Fuergys‘ mission is to change the way people use and share electric energy. The company is a renewable energy startup that focuses on providing alternative energy sources.
“Consume less, share smarter.”
Fuergys’ motto
Fuergy Founders
Branislav Safarik, Radoslav Stompf, Rastislav Kuba, and Vladimir Miskovsky founded Fuergy in 2018 in Slovakia. They were working on a project focused on energy optimization for big companies and realized the vast potential and advantages this energy efficiency solution could deliver. They founded Fuergy with the intention of offering a solution to every single energy consumer around the world.
Fuergy has developed its proprietary, high-scalable hardware device and Al-powered software, appropriately named“brAIn.” AI-powered brAIn makes decisions based on different factors, such as customer consumption, user habits, weather forecasts, grid status, electricity production, energy storage capacity, etc. The software helps to optimize energy consumption and maximize the efficiency of renewable energy sources.
4. Modernising With Green Entrepreneurship
AMP Robotics is formed by a growing team of environmentalists, engineers, and other professionals who are passionate about discovering new methods to modernise recycling.
These green entrepreneurs are using intelligent robotic systems to assess the essential needs of today’s recycling operations. Their mission is to unlock the constraints in the waste industry and use robotics and artificial intelligence to pursue it.
The robotics systems identify different types of plastics by material composition, sorted further by colour, clarity, and opacity, along with different factors. Moreover, AMP Cortex requirements for recovery include electronic scrap (for example, e-scrap), and identifying and picking the smallest pieces of materials to maximize the value recovered from material streams.
AMP Robotics helps to increase productivity, lowering the costs of recycling, diverting materials from landfills, increasing overall rates of recycling and resource recovery. This company is a perfect example of how recycling advances can help in the process of obtaining a more circular economy by addressing the problem of waste.
5. Plant More Trees
Treeapp is a platform dedicated to fostering a greener future. By simplifying tree planting and promoting sustainable initiatives, Treeapp empowers individuals and organizations to make a positive impact on the environment.
Entrepreneurs Journey
Godefroy, Jules, and Leo started this journey when they realized there weren’t enough opportunities for everyone to create a positive impact. They decided that their main goal was to bring the opportunity to plant a tree to everyone, contributing to the environment.
However, their main duty is to find green entrepreneurs looking for a solution to grow their brand. The goal is to connect two stakeholders and help the environment. This way, users can plant trees for free every day, sponsored by their business partners.
Moreover, they don’t only plant trees; they also carry out other innovative initiatives, such as supporting plastic-free nurseries and electric bicycles in Burundi or working with educational programs in Tanzania.
Inspired by Green Entrepreneurship?
We’ve only scratched the surface of the incredible work being done by green entrepreneurs worldwide. These passionate individuals and dream teams are driving innovation and creating sustainable solutions. By offering pioneering products and services, they help improve this world.
Are you ready to join the movement? By starting your own green business or supporting existing sustainable ventures, you can contribute to a healthier planet.
If you are interested in Green Entrepreneurship, check out this article that I wrote about my experience with Green Cloud Nine. Don’t forget to visit our Instagram and Facebook channels for more inspiring stories and sustainability tips.
Together, we can make a difference.
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