Green Mondays

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CleanTech, Sustainability, Environment & Green Business - monthly presentations, networking & idea sharing

What is GreenMondays?

GreenMondays is a monthly event for those interested in any type of 'GREEN' Business and Sustainability issues, traditionally held on the 4th Monday every month.

Featuring speakers on CleanTech and Alternative Energy, the Environment and Climate Change, Green Business and Sustainability, GreenMondays is targeted at Managers & Practioners implementing sustainability in organisations, GreenTech entrepreneurs, and anyone else interested in Climate Change and Environmental issues.

GreenMondays is intended as a forum for leading thinkers and Practioners from corporations, NGOs and government, as well as the CleanTech entrepreneurs who are inventing the new technologies. The speakers share their latest thinking, new inventions and best practices, followed by Q&A and Networking. Come & join!

PREVIOUS EVENTS

September 26th, 2011

Save water, save the earth. Whereas the 20th century has been called the century of oil, the 21st century is called the century of water. Our planet is covered by 70% water, but only 0.3% of this water is drinking water. In the industrialized countries urbanization and mega metropolitan cities exploit the last water reserves of our planet.

The Swiss company URIMAT contributes to water conservation through a simple idea: Make urinals free of water usage. URIMAT is the most innovative product of its kind. It also becomes an effective communication/ advertising display. Every drop counts!

Christian Schmitz and Uwe Bast told us about the many benefits of the Urimat in this age of declining water, and how it is being progressively found in an increasing number of restrooms in Japan.

June 27th, 2011

What a great evening it was. Our big thanks to Hisayuki Shimizu, Tracey Taylor and Dee Green for sharing their ideas, images and stories with us.

Hisayuki Shimizu, CEO, introduced DFF (Donate For Free) and showed how donations can be free and easy. Tracey Taylor and Dee Green from 37 Frames told an inspiring and beautiful story about how they got into photography, some of the unique, funny and emotional experiences they have had, and especially regarding the recent tragic events in Tohoku but showing that even amongst devastation, some people can find, and perhaps need, humour, to help cope.

Our thanks also to Nick Dempsey and his team of 57 - Fifty Seven - in Roppongi, who looked after us very well. It seems that we have found our new home.

Monday, May 23rd 2011: Planet McCann

Motoko Sakashita, Senior Planner and member of sustainability community “Planet McCann” at McCann Erickson, talked about the latest consumer insights regarding sustainability, to help all companies that are trying to meet CSR and business needs, as well as inspire anyone who is wanting to spread the idea of sustainability in a realistic way.

 

The presentation included latest trends about sustainability products and concepts that connect to strong consumer benefits, and latest research results about how the earthquake has changed people’s mindsets.

 

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Katerva Submission to Rio+20

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL RIO+20 KATERVA REPORT:

Katerva%20Submission%20to%20Rio%2B20.pdf


Katerva CTO Dr Robin Wood attended the Rio+20 Consultation with business leaders held in the Hague 11-12 April 2012. His full report is attached, and below are the higlights of the recommendations Robin made during the final panel session on the priorities government leaders and the UN should take forward to Rio.

The vision of Katerva is to co-create the world's first open, global platform for change and sustainable innovation. To realise this on any meaningful scale, we must create a platform that is totally inclusive, transparent and accessible to all. The platform would, inter alia, perform the following functions:

  •  Scan for and select the most viable, scalable, high impact and  unique solutions to the sustainability and thrival challenges we face on our planet- this would get the usually invisible dots of breakthrough innovations onto the global radar screen.

  • Aggregate the world's data on and insights into high potential sustainability solutions, enabling us to co-create a family of indices that would culminate in a world sustainability index. This would provide comparability between the overwhelming number of initiatives that surface more or less at random on the radar screens of decision makers today.

  • Provide a simple interface to these radar screens and indices for everyone from social enterprises in the African jungle to the penthouses of impact investors, through profiling and matching technologies.

  • Enable users to connect the dots themselves, and then track their progress through a sustainable innovation self- assessment diagnostic, which also provides access to communities of global experts and capacity enhancers so that each brilliant dot can become part of it own cluster of remarkable initiatives, filling the gaps and driving synergies as needed.

  • Celebrate the most successful and most improved initiatives and clusters, through the Katerva Awards.

  • Convene the most influential and resourceful individuals and organizations on the planet each year to fast- track the most promising breakthrough innovations, through the Katerva World Sustainability Forum.

  • Identify the major gaps that are not being addressed through existing initiatives, through the Katerva Institute, and assemble working groups of the most qualified experts and capacity builders to tackle and move toward a resolution of these issues.

  • Streamline the funding process for the most promising initiatives which might struggle to raise mainstream funding.


CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL RIO+20 KATERVA REPORT:

Katerva%20Submission%20to%20Rio%2B20.pdf



How Rio+20 Can Help Scale GroundBreaking Sustainable Innovations

There are many industry specific sustainability initiatives and agendas that need to be accelerated by Rio, which industry leaders and the WBCSD are ideally positioned to champion. The interests and needs of SME's will also be championed by the ICC and other SME representatives. Civil society will also be very well represented. There is not currently a champion for breakthrough initiatives in the white spaces between all these entities.

Yet we know that without such groundbreaking innovations being spotted, calibrated and scaled, the acceleration we need to ensure we meet or even exceed the new Rio+20 SDG's will be missing. Corporations, SME's, civil society and governments will all want visibility of and connectivity to the most groundbreaking solutions. But how can we avoid them being captured by narrow interest groups who either want to extract maximum profit from them, or make them poster children for national champions? In other words, how can we create communities of common interest that will ensure that the best initiatives are scaled for the benefit of all, as fast as possible?

Based on a reading of draft zero of the Rio+20 document, we would humbly submit that much more detailed provisions be made with regard to the paragraphs 24, 33, 42, 74 and 76. The central emphasis of these paragraphs (see below for full text) is on

  • reporting,
  • knowledge sharing,
  • skills and technology development and transfer,
  • mapping and promotion of job creation especially amongst SME’s with an emphasis on innovative financing methods.

At Katerva we believe we can all benefit from bringing some of the latest approaches to breakthrough innovations from the leading edges of the hi-tech economy, in such a way that would significantly accelerate the goals set out by the UN in the Rio+20 draft zero. Our recommendations would include:

An open, global platform for change, sustainable innovation and development, which would provide a window into the different initiatives around the globe, thereby enabling stakeholders large and small, from entrepreneurs to corporations to civil society and governments, to map activity of interest to them and connect to partners that can enhance their efforts. This would align with the following Rio+20 proposals:

  • The international knowledge-sharing platform proposed in para 33, with the best practice toolbox, progress indicators and green service directories.

  • Skills & Technology Development & Transfer proposed in para 42, with new mechanisms to scale successful initiatives and back them with innovative financing techniques.

  • A World Sustainability Index, which would enable every significant initiative that demonstrates viable, scalable, sustainable innovation, to be mapped and compared with the population of initiatives. This would enable potential investors, lenders, partners, donors, suppliers and customers to evaluate sustainability initiatives through the lens of their own particular profiles. The WSI would be a part of a family of indices incorporating the most used, relevant and effective existing indices, as well as integrating key data points and models from corporate and SME profiles and data feeds.

The WSI would align with the goals in paras 24, 33 and 42 of the Rio+20 proposals, and provide a focal point for creating visibility, accessibility and comparability across corporate, SME and civil society initiatives. We would recommend that this requires a shift in emphasis in these paragraphs from compliance and enforcement mechanisms to incentives which would encourage all players in the sustainable development game to engage with and use both the open global change platform and the WSI a way of growing their initiatives, businesses and communities.

Such an approach would significantly accelerate the ability of the diverse stakeholders required to incubate, fund, launch and scale sustainable, innovative development initiatives.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL RIO+20 KATERVA REPORT:

Katerva%20Submission%20to%20Rio%2B20.pdf

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