Business Ideas, Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship

Eco Friendly Loos

Watch Lulu and lovable loo video in this link provided:-

http://humanurehandbook.com/

It is high time we in India too adopted this more eco friendly nature’s way of converting human manure to composite manure for farming.

Watch more on composite toilets here in this link provided:-

 http://www.compostingtoilet.org/

About eco sanitation toilets here adopted by many Americans in their farms:-

http://www.sancor.ca/

But all this is not possible when living in urban cities where we are engaged in 9 to 5 jobs but can be adopted at least in villages or in farms.

Courtesy : Firdosh Sukhia

Business Ideas, Calendar, Technology

Threads of partnership

Bina Rao of Hyderabad-based Creative Bee foundation and Villoo Mirza of SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association), Ahmedabad, have for been friends for years, bound by their passion: handlooms.

A vegetable-dyed kalamkari jacket adorns a mannequin in SEWA’s modest workspace in Ahmedabad. “This is for Bina Rao’s collection to be showcased at the International Workshop on Natural Dyes in Hyderabad. Besides, I will be presenting my own line,” Villoo Mirza says. The line will feature mosaic-like appliqué patterns Gujarat is known for.

The SEWA studio deals with a multitude of textiles and techniques, from Kutchi to Kashmiri embroideries and the coarse Japanese Boro yarn.

The establishment’s ability to cater to diverse requirements is its hallmark, says Bina: “Once I design the garments, the fabrication work is done at Mirza’s studio.”

 

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Courtesy : Dara Acidwalla

Business Plans, People / Stories

The Godrej Game-Plan

Ace industrialist Adi Godrej, Chairman of the 117-yearold Godrej Group and one of India’s leading business icons, has led the company’s shift from being a family enterprise to a modern conglomerate with his highly innovative ideas and inspiring leadership. His efforts have led to the progress and growth of the Godrej Group to a professionally managed, profitable enterprise today, along with improvement of the quality standards of the company’s products to meet the challenges of globalization.

 

The right communication is key to any company’s success, especially in times of a turbulent economy, and a market needs stimulation when it is weak. Godrej chose to discuss this insight and the role of advertising in a slowing economy, highlighting the strategy of the Godrej Group in this context, while delivering the keynote address at the launch of the Pitch Madison Media Advertising Outlook, 2014 – jointly brought out by the exchange4media Group and Madison World – in Mumbai on February 19

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Courtesy : Dara Acidwalla

Business Ideas, Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship

Emergency shelters made from paper

Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper

 

Long before sustainability became a buzzword,architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such ascardboard tubes and paper. His remarkable structures are often intended as temporary housing, designed to help the dispossessed in disaster-struck nations such as Haiti, Rwanda or Japan. Yet equally often the buildings remain a beloved part of the landscape long after they have served their intended purpose. (Filmed at TEDxTokyo.)

Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings. Full bio »

 

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Business Ideas, Innovation

India’s First Ever Child Safety Startup

Safe Baby: India’s First Ever Child Safety Startup

 

…… Founded and incorporated in 2011, Safe Baby offers mothers and fathers a great deal in terms of child safety. Agarwal and her husband, Sachin Agarwal runs this startup, an idea which was conceived on their return trip from the U.S. The duo claims to have done great research in the area of child proofing as it is very important to do because the company idea and the business model revolves around the security of a child’s life. ……

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Business Ideas, Social Entrepreneurship

Plastic soda bottles become light source

This is INNOVATION at its best !
Lighting up dark places using a soda bottle, water, bleach, sealant, and little else…
Solves a major problem, and doesn’t cost that much…
Something quite amazing about how the poor make their life a little better  !
And what we usually take for granted.
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Courtesy : Khushnood Viccaji
Business Ideas, People / Stories, Social Entrepreneurship

Futuristic innovations from a college dropout!

You can zoom, at a maximum speed of 120 kmph, in his car that runs on compressed air!

You can also ride a cycle without pedalling or drive a solar-gas hybrid car…all you have to do is visit a small garage in Assam.

Kanak Gogoi, a modest innovator who has studied only up to class X, has spent years making these futuristic vehicles.

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Business Ideas, Social Entrepreneurship

Nike makes football jerseys from recycled bottles!

Sreelatha Menon

The world goes green with the world cup, as players take bottles to the field. This season the football extravaganza was not all about great football, but about a green revolution that has taken the world of sports by storm.

Recycled plastic PET bottles collected from landfill sites in Taiwan and Japan have been used to make the jerseys worn by players from Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, USA, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand Serbia and Slovenia all national teams sponsored by Nike.

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Books, Social Entrepreneurship

Making Ecopreneurs

Making Ecopreneurs
Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship
 
The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of ‘ecopreneurs’ – environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability.

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Business Ideas, People / Stories

How she makes wealth from waste

Poonam Kasturi calls herself Compost Wali. On a unique mission, she wants ordinary Indians to feel empowered, make a ‘clean’ difference to the society, by converting waste into useful compost in a simple and cost effective manner.

 Her organic business venture Daily Dump offers different types of composters that convert the waste generated in one’s  kitchen into compost. If the customers do not require the compost, it can be sold back to Daily Dump.

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