I love double-impact ideas. Such as this one, which reuses environmentally wasteful empty plastic bottles to cool down houses in Bangladesh without needing electricity. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Values Led Startups
Farming in the Heart of Dublin
Although the focus of Urban Farm is currently on kits to help people get their own agriculture projects started in downtown Dublin, the hope is that it can be much larger. For example, creating mushroom farms in the heart of the city using coffee waste from its hundreds of cafes. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL […]
Startup Uses Crowdfunding to Improve Neighborhoods
This is a lovely initiative, bringing together local activism and crowdfunding to improve neighbourhoods. From community gardens to social justice, it helps galvanise people and money to get projects going. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
5 Innovative Startups Helping with the Refugee Crisis
5 Innovative Startups Helping with the Refugee Crisis. If you’re going to run a startup anyway, why not make it one for social good if you have a proposition to help? CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Water Monitors for Aquaponics
It takes someone with a real passion for aquaponics to come up with an idea like this. A water monitoring system, which effectively provides a security blanket for aquaponics farmers. The potential of aquaponics as a really efficient and sustainable form of agriculture is huge, so this is smart thinking as well as good for […]