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How Sustainability Creates Jobs Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game
 
How Sustainability Creates Jobs

How Sustainability Creates Jobs

Jonathan Lim – Huffington post The #1 argument by corporations and politicians who oppose reducing pollution, fighting climate change and moving America to a cleaner, greener, more sustainable future is that doing so will cost the country jobs and hurt the economy. In fact, since many corporations and politicians claim to believe that climate change is [...]

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 [...]

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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Posted in Green Franchise

Business Opportunity offered to co-develop a Security company

Business Opportunity offered to co-develop a Security company

Every now and then a brilliant idea comes along and one needs to find that unique individual to match the opportunity. Usually its the other way around – by this I mean there are lots of good people looking for opportunities, but no good ideas ! At Ecopreneur we are going to help find one individual [...]

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Posted in Green Business Opportunity, Security business opportunity, Start-ups

Off Grid Living in Tree Houses

Off Grid Living in Tree Houses

For those of you who have toiled with the idea of “off the grid” living or are in search for a simpler life or there is a special tree house community functioning in the rainforest of Costa Rica which might be right up your alley. Finca Bellavista: A Sustainable Rainforest Community is what it’s called [...]

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Posted in Off Grid

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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Posted in Environment

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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Posted in Green Business Opportunity, Water Rhapsody

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

Green Business Opportunity

We offer: Green Business Opportunities

There's never been a better time to start a business with limited money. Climate change will ensure South Africans will be saddled with water shortages in the very near future.

Water Rhapsody green business opportunity in rainwater harvesting and the recycling of grey water is our first green business opportunity for aspiring ecopreneurs.

The second opportunity is for an ecopreneur to to jointly develop a Cape Town based business in the Security industry

We seek: Green start-ups or businesses looking to expand. We are looking for companies and start ups, especially in the renewable energy space who need to expand their markets. We provide backing, capital and a marketing platform in return for the opportunity to become a partner in your business. Contact us to begin a conversation.

Grey Water

Climate change will ensure South Africans will be saddled with water shortages in the very near future. The average bath uses 120 litres of water, a shower 80 litres and a washing machine 100 litres per load. That's a lot of water that you have to pay for, and then it all goes down the drain!

Recycled grey water can reduce your water needs by up to 50%. Check out the Grey Water FAQ for more information

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