October 25, 2009 – 3:42 pm
William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called “Using Energy” and modifying them to fit his needs. The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family [...]
By Annelie Andersson
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Tagged globe forum, ecosystem of partners, Open Innovation, Want-Find-Get-Manage, sustainable marketing, annelie, Define challenge, set the path on innovation, matchmake, find innovations, define innovations
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October 20, 2009 – 10:38 am
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — 10/19/09 — A new web portal called Treehoo.com that offers a search engine, free e-mail and online shopping invests 50 % of it’s profit to plant new trees in the third world. The Swedish company behind the portal estimates that we need to plant approximately 130 billion trees to sequester the surplus of carbon that has [...]
October 19, 2009 – 4:12 pm
Trends of transparency and the movement towards a connected community world Not long ago many companies tried to ensure competitive advantage by focusing on building a large internal R&D team with a significant share of the total budget. The in-house scientists and engineers conducted all aspects of developing new products from research to strategy. At [...]
October 16, 2009 – 11:15 am
This week I´m travelling around Poland to select sustainable innovators for our Onstage Innovators’ Contest which will be held during our forum in Gdańsk October 28-29: http://www.gfbn.com/pages/gdansk-innovators-contest Since we are trying to be a sustainable company I´ve done most of the interviews over Skype using their video feature, really impressed I must say, saving a lot of [...]
October 15, 2009 – 2:16 pm
During the Forum, an onstage innovators contest will take place. The contest features 12 exciting innovative companies who will present their groundbreaking sustainable innovations. The format of the presentations will be short “elevator pitches”. The audience will vote and decide which innovation is most likely to succeed. Below a movie clip from GF Innovators’ Contest [...]
October 13, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Arlanda airport, Stockholm Sweden, is working in various ways to increase the share of environmentally clean vehicles, or vehicles that run on renewable fuels. The airport has as a goal for 2012 that all airport vehicles will run on renewable fuel. The same applies to vehicles belonging to other airport-based companies and organisations that operate [...]
By Martina Nee
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Tagged airport, alternative fuel, arlanda, eco taxi, environmentally friendly cars, environmentally friendly vehicles, miljöbil, miljötaxi, preferential treatment, renewable energy, renewable fuel, stockholm, sustainability, sustainable cars, sweden
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October 12, 2009 – 4:52 pm
As a Globe Forum preferred partners you share our belief in the importance of developing new technique to solve the challenges of today. We at Globe Forum are very excited to collaborate with such skilled partners as Wistrand Advokatbyrå and Anafor Retorik, which by offering their highly skilled services to the innovators in the Globe [...]
October 6, 2009 – 8:50 am
RidgeBlade is a wind-power system, designed by a former Rolls Royce turbine engineer under the wing of a UK-based Power Collective. RidgeBlade can be fitted to buildings with minimum visual impact and maximum energy conversion potential. This micro-generation system employs discreetly housed cylindrical turbines positioned horizontally along the apex of a sloping roof. The slope of [...]
October 5, 2009 – 8:19 am
Mention greenhouse gases, and most people think of cars. The reality, however, is that more than 20 percent of such gases around the globe come not from machines but from cows—specifically, the 500 billion liters of methane gas that get emitted by the world’s billion or so cows every day. That’s more than what’s produced [...]
October 2, 2009 – 7:00 am
Polish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce is arranging the Countdown to Globe Forum Gdansk taking place on 12th October, 10:00 a.m.,in Dwor Oliwski, Gdansk (www.dwor-oliwski.pl/a/). Program: 10.00 – 10.10 Registration of participants 10.10 – 10.25 Opening speeches General Manager of the Polish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce Tadeusz Iwanowski Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Jan Kozłowski The Mayor of [...]
