Robin Saidov equips homeowners with the solar panel knowledge they need through her business, Your Energy Footprint.
1000 Environment & Natural Resources
She’s Helping Buildings Across The Globe Go ‘Green’
Eleni Polychroniadou is the founder of Sintali, a certification body that fact checks a building’s environmental claims.
Starting Over In 2019? How To Overcome Painful Career Setbacks
There’s no reason to fear change. Laura Stachel of We Care Solar describes how a devastating disappointment led to the most fulfilling chapter of her life.
An Insect Lover Builds an $18 Million Natural Pest Control Company
After setbacks and scandal, Pamela Marrone of Marrone Bio Innovations is staging a comeback developing alternatives to dangerous pesticides.
Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne of Sustain Solutions: Creating Sustainable Solutions for Underprivileged Communities
“I wanted to fulfill the philosophy, ‘Teach a man to fish and he will never go hungry’ instead of just providing these people with temporary monetary means.”
Cleaning Up Our E-Waste Mess
Find out how Traci Phillips got into the business of preserving Mother Earth.
Mary Gaerty: Green Skip Services– Competition Encourages Creativity
Success is fulfilling, bitter when times are difficult, terrible when you loose a client and exhilarating when you win a tender or a deal or contract you had worked hard for.
Alexa Stone: ecoPreserve – Building Sustainability
Success is taking action and progressing toward a goal that benefits the greater good.
Hadayai Majeed: Encore Recycling– Fighting for Environmental and Social Responsibility
To help keep the environment clean and to help a non-profit charity raise funds to assist families struggling financial due to some form of domestic abuse/sexual assault.
Andrea Paltzer: The Earth Education Project– Empowering Women in Nicaragua
I believe that small businesses and social enterprise charities can offer communities a lasting solution to problems they have come across such as, lack of education and a lack of employment opportunities.
Mili Nath/Losita Bhattacharya: The First Green Store
We always decided on the products that have a design perspective while at the same time being environmentally friendly.
The Adventure Project Helps Others Help Themselves
Becky Straw and Jody Landers are unlikely partners on a shared mission to alleviate poverty in developing countries. In 2010 they started The Adventure Project, a non-profit that provides funding to social enterprises. “We almost act as the VCs, where we have the money and we’re investing wisely in these enterprises so they can scale,” Straw told The Story Exchange.