For many different reasons, Green Entrepreneurship is a necessity nowadays. I am sure that you agree? As everybody knows each day the exploitation of natural resources is unsustainable. This is why more and more people each day understand that Sustainability is the answer to a better future.
However, individuals are not the only ones that have arrived at this conclusion. Companies becoming more and more aware of the current situation. Moreover, there are green entrepreneurs who are looking to make a better world with their business ideas.
Companies are changing their mindsets, and they are no longer looking to achieve traditional economic imperatives. They are also considering more environmental dimensions and trying to achieve objectives like minimizing energy consumption and reducing their carbon footprint.
Nevertheless, there are some startups and companies that are not only helping by achieving these green goals Tese companies are basing their business principles around Sustainability. A good example is my adventure as a Green Entrepreneur with Green Cloud Nine, a digital marketplace to bring 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. Would you like to hear about other green startups and companies?
1. The Ocean Advocate-Daniela V. Fernandez
The Sustainable Ocean Alliance 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.
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 SQA, 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-lead green ideas all over the planet; a campaign against Deep-Seabed Mining, as they believe that it’s an unjustified threat to the health of our ocean; and finally, Ocean Learning Labs Series, that consist of webinars that focuses 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. Sun run- Lynn Jurich
Lynn Jurich is the co-founder of Sun-run. “the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services company”. 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.
They have 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. 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. Fuergy- Branislav Safarik, Radoslav Stompf, Rastislav Kuba, and Vladimir Miskovsky
Fuergy’s mission is to change the way that people use and share electric energy. The company is a renewable energy startup that focuses on providing alternative energy sources. Their motto is: “Consume less, share smarter”.
Fuergy was founded by Branislav Safarik, Radoslav Stompf, Rastislav Kuba, and Vladimir Miskovsky in 2018. Fuergy was 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 intending to offer a solution to every single energy consumer around the world.
Fuergy have developed their proprietary, high-scalable hardware device and Al-powered software. The software Aptly named“brAIn”, which helps to optimize the energy consumption and maximize the efficiency of renewable energy sources.
AI-powered brAIn makes decisions based on different factors, such as customer consumption, the user’s habits, weather forecast, grid status, electricity production. energy storage capacity, etc.
4. AMP Robotics- Matanya Horowitz
These green entrepreneurs are using intelligent robotics systems to assess the essential needs of today’s recycling operations.
So, their mission is to unlock the constraints in the waste industry and use robotics and artificial intelligence to pursue it. AMP Robotics is formed by a growing team of environmentalists, engineers, and other professionals who share a passion for discovering new methods to modernize the way that we recycle.
Those robotics systems identify different types of plastics by material composition, sorted further by color, clarity, and opacity, along with different form 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. Treeapp-Godefroy, Jules, and Leo
Treapp is an app that enables people to plant one tree for free every day. They also help organizations to spread out their sustainable products and services.
Godefroy, Jules, and Leo started this journey when they realized that there weren’t enough opportunities for everyone to have a positive impact.
They decided that their main goal was going to be bringing the oppurtunity 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 together and help the enviroment. This way users can plant trees for free every day, sponsored by their business partners.
Last year, they planted 400,000 trees, which is the size of Monaco. The Treeapp Sites are located in South America (Haiti, Peru, and Brazil), Africa (Guinea, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mozambique), and Asia (Nepal and Indonesia).
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.
What do you think about Green Entrepreneurs?
As you can see, there are plenty of entrepreneurs around the world who are passionate about climate change. They help to make a more sustainable world by offering their pioneering products and services. I hope that these startups and companies, have motivated you to start your own sustainable adventure, and join the entrepreneurship green movement!
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