16 February 2012 - One of the 2011 Postcode Lottery Green Challenge finalists is Svante Bengtsson. His company Rehact produces a cooling, warming and ventilation system for buildings that cuts energy use by 85 per cent by transferring air between inside and outside. Rehact recently won the Zennström Green Mentorship Award. A good reason to ask him how he's doing.
16 February 2012 - The goal of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is to lead a global transformation of the way we make things. They received a one-time funding from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. C2C aims to open an Institute in The Netherlands as well to better operate in the European market.
16 January 2012 - Eben Bayer founded Ecovative together with Gavin McIntyre in 2007 and won the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge in 2008 when he was just 23. He was in town and we spoke about life at Ecovative and what it's like to be a young entrepreneur. See what Eben has to say on the subject.
16 January 2012 - Bennett Cohen of Empower Generation answered our 5 Questions. He and Anya Cherneff act as a centralised hub providing services to entrepreneurs, technology companies and NGOs interested in collaborative renewable energy solutions. They offer system design and project management services for rural renewable energy technology projects. Read all about it here.
4 January 2012 - With over 50% of us living in urban areas, how do we make them more sustainable? One set of tools in our arsenal is the increasingly ubiquitous information and communications technologies that drive our global economies to be ever more integrated and productive.
Some have called this marriage between the physical and digital worlds the 'smart' city. We could also call it 'City 2.0'. External blogger Molly Webb blogs about mining the surplus city.
16 December 2011 - Igor Kluin founded Qurrent in 2006, and won the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge with his invention of the Qbox in 2007. Earlier this year, all shares were sold to DOEN Foundation, who then proceeded to merge their own energy company of the future 'We Generate' with Qurrent. We checked in with Igor and new CEO Michel Muurmans to talk about the Qurrent future.
16 December 2011 - This time the sustainable entrepreneur we asked the 5 questions to is the American company TerraCycle, founded in 2002 by then 20 year old Tom Szaky. TerraCycle's purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. They do this by creating international recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste and then converting the collected waste into a wide variety of products and materials. Read their inspiring answers here.
16 November 2011 - Jan Paul van Soest, one of the preliminary jurors of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, has written an interesting essay about why the transition to a sustainable energy economy is taking so long. Interested?
9 November 2011 - Marjolein Helder had never expected all the publicity that is coming Plant-e's way after being a finalist in the 2011 Postcode Lottery Green Challenge. We checked in with her to see what happened since the dust settled.
Watch our compilation clip of the 2011 Postcode Lottery Green Challenge. See how the finalists pitch their idea, are applauded by Brad Pitt, and that Nick Christy is awarded the EUR 500,000 prize. Bill Clinton also wishes the finalists good luck on screen and William McDonough is a very inspiring keynote speaker. Enjoy!
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