To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every

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• 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

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WHAT is Environmental Enterprise?

• Enterprise / business where the product or
  service provides a sustainable environmental
  solution or alternative.

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Environmental Enterprise Examples

• Solar drying
• Bee-keeping products
• Fruit juice and fruit products

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Environmental Enterprise Examples

• Rainwater Barrel Collection Businesses
• Biodiesel
• Vegetable Oil Engines
• Bicycles as Alternative Transport

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Environmental Enterprise Examples

• Eco-Tourism /
• Geo-Tourism
• Edible seaweed collection

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Growing Jatropha plants and processing oil from
seeds for lamp fuel
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• NOT only new technologies, but also
• traditional methods of doing things

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We believe . - Youth need to be true project
partners - Youth are sources of innovation
knowledge
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Youth Environmental Enterprise Training Programs
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Peer teaching and mentoring
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• Environmental Entrepreneurship Clubs at Schools

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Study Tours to learn about market potential
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Self-managed Savings and Credit Groups
(Savings-led MicroFinance)
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• A greening of the human mind must precede the
  greening of the earth
• M.S. Swaminathan

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Facilitating the preparation of Environmental
Enterprise Plans for communities
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Local Collaborative Learning Clusters -
Environmental Enterprise Development Initiatives
(EEDIs)
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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)

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www.eco-ventures.org
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• "If you change the way
• you look at things
• the things
• you look at
• change