This is my main lens, covering all related to the meta-concept of "Sustainopreneurship" - Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability, and it is maintained by me, Anders Abrahamsson. Check my other lenses to get related topics in concordance.
For an overview of these related lenses, check my "lensmaster page". Subjects included are CSR - and beyond, SRI - socially responsible investment (focus on Sustainability Venture Capital), Branding for Sustainability, Networking, A vision to get the world online called Hotworld and Sustainable distributed energy.
This main lens on sustainopreneurhsip is also working as a abstract, synopsis and starting point to introduce the main theme on the related book to be published by me through SLICE Services and Publishing - "Business with a Cause".
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I am available for speeches, workshops and whole event co-organizing related to this and associated topics above. A summary of the related topics, mentioned earlier, follows in a specific lens-roll module.
Poverty, Climate Change, HIV/AIDS
From World's Greatest Problems to Business Opportunities "win-win-win"
In a world where two thirds live on less than $3 a day and half of the world has not yet seen a telephone or have electricity, there are more than a billion opportunities to take aim at these "sustainability-related problems" and make sustainable cause-oriented businesses of these solutions, e. g. micro-financing solar home systems or providing village phone booths in these rural survival and emerging with mobile phones.
This is the essence of "sustainopreneurship", where opportunities reside equally in survival, emerging and developed parts of our globally connected economy. Especially ideas that span the best of opportunities in the links in between these contexts holds immense potential.
This lens is for you who wants to make meaning and money in your life at the same time. What's your mission?
This is the essence of "sustainopreneurship", where opportunities reside equally in survival, emerging and developed parts of our globally connected economy. Especially ideas that span the best of opportunities in the links in between these contexts holds immense potential.
This lens is for you who wants to make meaning and money in your life at the same time. What's your mission?
Main sources
Theory and cases of Sustainopreneurship
This link list is pointing you to the main sources and one case study.
- Theory and references
- Here is a temp direction to my main blog filtered to only contain the theory and references, dominated by academic work. There are almost no more accessible popularly written material covering entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability aimed at startups of these kinds of businesses. I have a working title for the book; "Business with a Cause", subtitled "sustainopreneurship - from Ideas to Action and Results". It will be published in a BookBlog first, meaning that it will be written in blogposts before it gets published.
- Ignition[tm] - Genuine Wear for a Sustainable Lifestyle
- The greater majority of the insights was coming through the action route to set up the business On a Mission, and its main brand, Ignition, aimed to the business-to-business market. Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Fashionwear to help businesses who wants to profile themselves as sustainable to Walk the Talk by purchasing directly imported and custimized Sustainability Profile Clothing from India. The vocabulary was found during the way, and the action route has been helping to formulate and describe the concept.
- Working definition of "Sustainopreneurship"
- This link goes to the suggested definition of Sustainopreneurship as it might be seen in the future online version "Oxford English Dictionary", 2008 ed :).
Lens Roll: Related Topics
Branding, SRI, CSR, global internet and sustainable energy
These are related topics, and they will all be covered separately as specific aspects of Business for Sustainability in the book mentioned. I am available for speeches focusing these abstracted areas of knowledge - and action!
- Branding for Sustainability
- Branding is about identity and communication, and to build this sustainable asset for a cause-oriented business is crucial. Especially important since Sustainable Business and Sustainopreneurship is meeting challenges in communication, in between the Cash and Cause/Not and For Profit. Business for Sustainable Prosperity for all stakeholders. Can Brands change the world?
- SRI - and SVC, Sustainability Venture Capital
- A lens devoted to the topic of socially responsible investing, where the specific and strongly proactive practice of financing sustainability innovations and business ideas gets a focus - Sustainability Venture Capital. Still juvenile and hard to communicate, especially towards the established VC sector, this lens is transferring the unimited business opportunities that lies in solving sustainability-related problems.
- Corporate Social Responsibility - and Beyond
- This lens takes a departure of the Corporate (Social) Responsibility issue, and relates it to the qualitatively different approach of integrating Deep Sustainability into the business core, idea, strategy and practice. Moving from Public Relations to Public Trust, and moving Planet and People into the core, where Profitability is the means to create Prosperity for all stake-holders in an endless win-win-win for real.
- Networking - everything is related to everything else
- In the same manner as a sustainability perspective is holistic, the same is related to networking - and especially since established structures are governing the institutional thinking, networking is critical in order to connect people, ideas, proactive business pioneers and places together. Networks and networking as a scientific, social, business and societal pheonomenon gets attention.
- "Power to the People" - Sustainable Distributed Energy
- 70 percent of those lacking electricity today, which is beyond half of the world population, can get it from solar power. In turn, solar power can be financed mid-term by just switching monthly costs from kerosene, paraffin and candle lights to a three-year loan. This lens is both showcasing a business model utilizing this fact, together with the future of sun power.
- Small Loans - Great Leaps of Empowerment
- One of the early discoveries leading to the strong movement and finding the applications above to actively contribute to eliminate poverty was micro credit I first heard about during the nineties. This lens is recommended a visit. Not authored by me, it was there already during the secret beta testing, to my joy!
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