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📢 "We change the world one purchase at a time"

📢 "We change the world one purchase at a time"

🍊 This is the ambitious goal of @plazanaranja.co , one of our finalists of this year´s Student Social Business Idea Contest

🌱🚀 To learn more about the social business or to check out the online store offering socially and environmentally friendly products to conscious consumers, follow them on social media and visit their website: https://www.plazanaranja.co/

#socialbusiness #3zeros #consciousconsumption #greenrecovery #colombia

❓ Do you have an idea that can solve a social or

❓ Do you have an idea that can solve a social or environmental problem and you would like to create a social business with it?

📢 As part of our "A Greener Future for East Africa’s Youth" program you can still sign up to "StartNow”: Our online course for Social Business Plan Creation.

🌱 If you are based in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania or Ethiopia, join our self-learning platform to advance your business plan in an online-offline experience within an 8-week course accompanied by mentors.

Applications now open until 25th January: https://www.yystartnow.com/login

#socialbusiness #mentoring #eastafrica #StartNow

👉 We have extended our deadline! 🌱 Would yo

👉 We have extended our deadline!

🌱 Would you like to start this year by sharing your experiences and knowledge with social business entrepreneurs in East Africa?

📢 Enroll in our StartNow platform to support the 8-weeks program designed for early-stage social business entrepreneurs that will solve the social and environmental challenges in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

⏱️ With a 2-hours per week commitment, you will facilitate and encourage the social business entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life.

Applications open until 25th January: https://www.yystartnow.com

Join us in our WhatsApp group where we will be sharing more details: http://bit.ly/StartnowMentors

Find more info on our East Africa mentors’ program here: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/greener-future-for-east-africas-youth/

#socialbusiness #mentoring #eastafrica #StartNow

💡 Make your Social Business knowledge count and

💡 Make your Social Business knowledge count and pass it on!

🌱 You can actively grow the social business community by becoming part of our 8-week StartNow program which kicks off January 25th for the first time and will continue on a rolling basis to support more than 500 entrepreneurs tackling environmental issues in the East African region over the next three years.

❓ You are not sure whether you are suitable to become a mentor for our StartNow learning platform for green social business entrepreneurs in East Africa?

👉 Join our Mentors´cafe in our whatsapp group and get in touch with any questions you might have on Monday, 18th January, 5pm EAT

Link: bit.ly/StartnowMentors

#socialbusiness #eastafrica #mentoring #StartNow #environment

👉 This is YOUR opportunity to grow the social b

👉 This is YOUR opportunity to grow the social business community!!!

🌱 Would you like to start the year sharing your experiences and knowledge with social business entrepreneurs in East Africa?

📢 As of today you can enroll in our StartNow platform to support early-stage entrepreneurs that will solve the social and environmental challenges of the East African region. (link in bio)

Find more info of our East Africa mentors program on our website or join us in our WhatsApp group where we will be sharing more details: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KS12emZKbhw3guI37E2w1V

#socialbusiness #mentoring #eastafrica #StartNow #digitallearning

📢 We have teamed up with @worldview.education t

📢 We have teamed up with @worldview.education to support them in the Cities of Tomorrow Challenge supported by @unhabitat and many more!

🍃🏙 The youth entrepreneurship challenge was launched last year on #worldcitiesday and offers high school students a platform to learn more about smart and sustainable cities and how to turn their creative ideas into social impact.

🌱🚀 Yunus Environment Hub will contribute its expertise on social business solutions for environmental issues to help educate the next generation to contribute to a world of three zeros: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

Learn more on www.worldview.global/cot
@cot_byworldview

#COTbyWorldview #SDG11 #FutureSake #FutureCities #sustainablecitities #entrepreneurship #socialbusiness #3zeros

📅 SAVE THE DATE - January 4th, 2pm CET 📢 We

📅 SAVE THE DATE - January 4th, 2pm CET

📢 We won´t lose time and start the new year off with more exciting events! Next Week, our Managing Director Christina Jäger will join the 10th episode of the YSBC Lecture Series by Yunus Centre.

🌱 The episode will talk about “Experiences of a Social Business which is dedicated to creating Green Social Businesses” so get ready for more insights into Yunus Environment Hub and its work and values!

As always, free and easy to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HJTyM2S0Sl2slMe17SBvBA

#YSBC #YSBCWebLectureSeries #LectureSeries #Lecture10 #SocialBusiness

💡 For the upcoming year let us all work togethe

💡 For the upcoming year let us all work together to change this common misperception that products which have served their primary purpose have no other value, reach their end of useful life and immediately turn into waste!

❓ Let us first remind ourselves of this on a regular basis and make sure to reflect on our own consumption behaviour. What do we throw away, what do we purchase and what do we actually need? You can be your own critic the way nobody else could!

♻️ Equally important is to share this knowledge as decades of the make-take-dispose paradigm have left us stuck in a linear system we comfortably follow. Often without realizing that there is a more beneficial alternative!

#quote #inspirationalquote #spreadtheword #circularity #circulareconomy #endplasticwaste

Meet Luise who is the Operations & Program Directo

Meet Luise who is the Operations & Program Director at Yunus Environment Hub

🎓 Born and raised in Germany, she worked and lived in France, La Réunion and Australia. She holds a post-graduate degree in Business and Technology from TU Munich and QUT Brisbane. Furthermore, she is a certified Environment Manager & Auditor and MIT Bootcamp graduate. She is fluent in English, French and German and loves international projects with diverse teams from various backgrounds.

♻️ At her previous social business FiveOceans, Luise and her team were among the first to transform plastic waste from Indonesia into a successful consumer product. Their Kickstarter campaign was funded in 2015, the ecoFin project received multiple awards and 50+ international media appearances. As Managing Director, she worked in business strategy, scientific research, project management and public speaking to become a Circular Economy and Sustainability advocate. Afterwards, she joined SensuSport as CMO, advancing the sports tech start-up from idea to market-readiness

🌊 As a passionate surfer and livelong traveller, she enjoys exploring remote islands as much as her local mountains. Hiking, split boarding, and running (no matter the weather), she loves to spend as much time in nature as possible.

#MeetTheTeam #socialbusiness #environment #sustainableimpact #3Zeros #programdirector #YunusEnvironmentHub #DoItWithJoy

📢 „SAVE THE DATE 22. + 23. December 2020 1s

📢 „SAVE THE DATE 22. + 23. December 2020 1st EAST AFRICAN SOCIAL BUSINESS FORUM

🕊 The Social Business model designed by Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is one of the best tools to unleash as well as catalyze potentials & empower individuals to overcome socio-economic problems.

🌱 The East African Youth is full of creative potential to shape a brighter & greener future for their own communities. Let us put Social Business on the agenda & initiate an East African Youth Movement before this historic year ends.

👉 Join us at the 1st East African Social Business Forum. Register now for your free ticket: https://hopin.com/events/easbf2020“

🔔 This realization by Terry Swearingen, winner

🔔 This realization by Terry Swearingen, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize back in 1997 sadly still holds true today more than ever!

🌍As simple as it is to see that we only have one chance of getting things right and that we depend entirely on this planet´s health, we still close our eyes when it comes to protecting it!

👉 In pursuit of short-lived luxury and endless consumption, we forget to think about the big picture and the consequences of our own actions. The time to change this behavioural pattern is now!

#inspirationalquote #quote #climateaction #takeactionnow #3zeros #climatecrisis

Meet Christina who is the Co-Founder and Managing

Big news incoming! 📢 We are more than excited

Big news incoming!

📢 We are more than excited to share with you that the Yunus Environment Hub website is now live!
https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/

🎉 The global social business network that creates solutions for the environmental crisis finally has an online home and we invite all of you to come in and have a look around (no need to take off your shoes).

🌍 More insights into who we are and what we do so feel free to share with your networks and anyone who might be interested in creating a world of three zeros:
Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

#websitelaunch #website #websitedesign #socialbusiness #climateaction

👏 We can only second @gretathunberg s words as

👏 We can only second @gretathunberg s words as they resonnate with us as well as with @professormuhammadyunus warning to not go back to the old!

⏳ We live in difficult times but we need to take advantage of them and see them as an opportunity to change our current system. And that is only possible if we take action now!

🌍 Let´s strive for a world in which we pay more attention to how our actions impact the environment as well as the people on this planet. A world in which we promote circularity instead of following linear consumption patterns. A world of zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emmissions!

#inspirationalquote #quote #environment #environmentalcrisis #takeactionnow #3zeros #circulareconomy #sustainability

Meet Pratheek who is a Venture Building Manager at

Meet Pratheek who is a Venture Building Manager at Yunus Environment Hub!

🎓 Pratheek was born and raised in Bangalore and obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering. After that he started working in the education sector as a Gandhi Fellow, where he understood grassroot level challenges faced by migrant communities living in the slums of Surat. He went on to work with Daily Dump, a design driven solution provider working in waste management based in Bangalore.

♻️ Pratheek has extensively worked on several projects in the past and is thrilled to be part of Yunus Environment Hub. He is currently working on the Zero Plastic Waste City project in Puducherry, that is envisioned to setup a social business with an aim to minimize plastic leakage into the sea by channelizing Puducherry’s plastic waste to recycling.

#MeetTheTeam #socialbusiness #environment #sustainableimpact #3Zeros #venturebuilding #zeroplasticwaste #YunusEnvironmentHub #DoItWithJoy

⏳ Our Student Social Business Idea Contest has e

⏳ Our Student Social Business Idea Contest has entered the next stage, so get ready for the big finale!

🌱 The ten most innovative social business ideas for a green recovery in Colombia by achieving a world of three zeros have been selected!

🚀 They are currently receiving individual mentoring sessions to prepare them for their big day on December 3rd when they will pitch their idea in front of an expert jury and live audience!

You can be part of that live audience by signing up for free: https://bit.ly/evento-pitch

#socialbusiness #ideacontest #negociosocial #3zeros #greenrecovery #colombia #finale

🔔 What better words to use to promote the shift

🔔 What better words to use to promote the shift towards a more circular economy which is not optional but necessary in the face of the current environmental crisis.

♻️ We should not only see improved waste management to reduce pollution as a duty to save the environment. Of course, this is definitely true and should be reason enough! But we need to realize that everything we keep from becoming waste can be input for something new if we circle it back up the value chain.

🌏 A philosophy which we put into action in our Zero Plastic Waste Cities program in Asia and Africa and a concept which needs to be more widely considered and accepted to change the linear "make-take-dispose" paradigm of our economy!

#inspirationalquote #quote #circulareconomy #wastemanagement #environment #socialbusiness #endplasticwaste

Meet Johannes who is an Assistant Program Manager

Meet Johannes who is an Assistant Program Manager at Yunus Environment Hub!

💡 He joined the Yunus Environment Hub on a scholarship from the German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development.

♻️ Previously, he was involved with the NGO Engineers Without Borders, leading a waste management project in Zimbabwe. In this context, he engaged in the topic of plastics recycling with a focus on infrastructure-weak regions.

#MeetTheTeam #socialbusiness #environment #sustainableimpact #3Zeros #assistant #programmanager #YunusEnvironmentHub #DoItWithJoy

📆 One month ago we finished the third and last

📆 One month ago we finished the third and last webinar of our mini-series around social business idea creation! It was the end of the first phase of our Student Social Business Idea Contest 2020!

💡 Fast forward to today and the selected ten finalists who submitted the most innovative ideas for a green recovery in Colombia are already receiving their individual mentorings.

📢 This phase prepares them for our grand finale on December 3rd when the social business entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to contribute to a world of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions in front of a live audience and selected jury!

#socialbusiness #ideacontest #greenrecovery #3zeros #negociosocial #colombia #finalpitch

⏳ Building on the words of @patagonia founder Iv

⏳ Building on the words of @patagonia founder Ivon Chouinard, it is time to stop turning a blind eye on what is happening around us.

♻️ The linear make-take-dispose system we have prescribed ourselves to has caused us to live outside of our plantet´s capacities. A makeover is required!

💡 Luckily, there are countless people out there, tackling the ignorance we have accepted for so long and tackling our most pressing environmental issues through innovative ideas and sustainable business models! What we need is creative and brave minds to take them to the test and create impact!

#Inspirationalquote #quote #patagonia #ivonchouinard #innovation #circulareconomy #socialbusiness #3zeros

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