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Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups

Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups

Ecopreneur is looking to back renewable energy companies who are at the start-up phase or who are a sustainable business looking to expand. Key to being successful as a start-up or an expanding established business is the ability to keep cash flow positive, and the ability to master the art of effective marketing. Ecopreneur is [...]

Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game

Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game

Monitoring how much power your home uses isn’t just frugal but an “in” and green idea. Google and Microsoft are already players in the home energy market but Apple is looking to change the game with two patent applications. There’s a simple reason for Apple to get into the smart grid market and that’s money. Cisco [...]

10 Startling Facts that Underscore the Climate Threat

10 Startling Facts that Underscore the Climate Threat

A study published in the journal Science reports that the current level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere – about 390 parts per million – is higher today than at any time in measurable history — at least the [...]

Looking for a Green job or career ?

Looking for a Green job or career ?

We’ll do better than that! We’ll show you a green business opportunity that helps create your own economic freedom, allowing you to own and manage your own business. You probably searched the word “ecopreneur” in Google and arrived here. What is an ecopreneur you may ask? Well its a combination of an entrepreneur and someone who [...]

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IDC committed to green and renewable start-ups

IDC committed to green and renewable start-ups

Svetlana Doneva    www.fin24.com Johannesburg – The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said the majority of the R71bn earmarked for funding investment over the next five years will go to new businesses. That’s according to IDC CEO Geoffrey Qhena, who addressed media at the presentation of the development funding company’s results for the year to end-March 2009. This goal [...]

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Posted in Renewable Energy, Start-ups

Ecopreneur Seth Godin – the Lizard Brain

Ecopreneur Seth Godin – the Lizard Brain

How can I explain the never-ending irrationality of human behavior? We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say we want to be thin [...]

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Posted in Effective Marketing for Ecopreneurs

Carbon Footprint of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Carbon Footprint of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Africa’s first football World Cup will generate 2.75m tonnes of carbon emissions, one of the biggest environmental impacts of any sporting event in history, a study has found. The finals in South Africa next year are expected to have a carbon footprint eight times that of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, even before long-haul international [...]

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An Ecopreneur’s Testimonial, 17 years later

An Ecopreneur’s Testimonial, 17 years later

17 years ago, as I became aware of the impact our lifestyles were having on our environment and coupled with a growing sceptism of big corporates, from municipalities to private sector conglomerates, I looked around for more opportunities to go off the grid.  We already had a solar hot water heating system installed in 1987 [...]

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How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room

Mark Lynas guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 December 2009 Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally [...]

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Posted in Environment, Global Warming

Work from Home in Water Conservation

Work from Home in Water Conservation

The New Year and decade of 2010 has spurned countless people looking for green business opportunities in the Southern Africa work space. Many believe water is going to be the commodity wars will be fought over in years to come.  Today’s Cape Times Business report suggests the Southern and Eastern cape is experiencing the worst [...]

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Google’s Power Meter meets the Energy Detective

Google’s Power Meter meets the Energy Detective

When Google started talking about its energy management web tool PowerMeter earlier this year, a big hurdle quickly became apparent: The search engine giant’s market for the device would be limited to consumers whose utilities are deploying smart meters (meters that have two-digital communication). That’s a small piece of a very small pie, given only [...]

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Posted in Renewable Energy

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