Author Archives: Annelie Andersson

Hold the position as Marketing Director at Globe Forum. Curious of different cultures and the diversity in the world she has a keen interest for open innovation and have researched the movement for years. Annelie holds a dual undergraduate in Bachelor of Fine Arts and Science, and graduated with an MBA from LIU, New York, 2006.
She is passionate about sustainable innovations that change the rules of the game, people’s habits and values, and she believes that: “…the truth is that the best organizations and innovations are the ones that strive to make a difference in the world!”

Movie time – videos that define the environmental movement

Viral videos that have defined the environmental movement from 1958-2010. Wind a friend indeed. You and only you have the power to save energy. The future is NOT later. Nothing new under the Sun. Source: ecopolitology.org

Put on your hard hat, work in progress

At the moment we are working hard to improve our leading marketplace, where members can work collectively to source sustainable ideas and raise funding for sustainable innovations. However, we can’t improve anything unless we work collaboratively with the crowd. Please put on your hard hat and help us iterating the site through changes www.globeforum.com We’re [...]

Globe Forum 48 – The Circle Resort Challenge!

During Globe Forum 28-29 April a diverse group of researchers, house builders, and sustainability experts will take on 7 challenges. To succeed these experts needs a head start and we would like to gather all ideas and solutions around these challenges before they enter the 48 hour race. If you have a solution that might [...]

Are you interested in Solving Sida’s challenge?

  Sida sets a Challenge to find innovative companies which see an opportunity in recognising poor people as consumers, distributors and suppliers. To respond to Sida’s Challenge come to Globe Forum 2010, 28-29 April Frihamnshallen Stockholm. Register here: http://register.globeforum.com/stockholm2010/ and use the code: SCH10 In the open registration field please state how you are planning [...]

Innovators rehearsal in Karlstad has come to an end

It was a student, a Norwegian, and a woman…..and I am not trying to tell a funny story about our lovely Norwegian neighbours, this is a true story about my afternoon. I have spent half a day at Karlstad University listening to innovators rehearsing their mind-boggling pitches that will solve some of the challenges that [...]

Globe Forum Tour 2010

Inför årets Globe Forum i Stockholm går Globe Forum på tour i Sverige för att finna de bästa miljötekniska innovationerna i landet. Första stoppet är Karlstad, den 25 februari. Tävlingen arrangeras av Stål & Verkstad inom ramen för interregprojektet FEM och Globe Forum i samarbete med klusterorganisationer, företag och universitet i regionen.

Windowfarms

NYC artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray about their hydroponic project called Window Farm. In New York City a group have moved on to sourcing food directly from their apartment windows. No joke. The organisation is called Windowfarms, and is a new movement toward hydroponic, vertical farming in urban areas. Why not start to grow [...]

Awareness of global warming

Global warming is not newly known, nearly half a century before Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” this film was made. The exerpt is from the well known educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.” /Annelie Andersson

Connect locally to leverage sustainable values

It all started when natural products industry veterans, Mark Retzloff and Paul Repetto, embarked on a search for organic milk and happened upon a cooperative of small organic dairy farmers in Wisconsin. The cooperative consisted of a handful of visionary dairymen and women who believed in organic values, exactly the ideals Retzloff and Repetto sought. [...]

Globe Forum expanderar och anställer två kända miljöprofiler

Globe Forum som är Europas snabbast växande marknadsplats för miljö-innovationer fortsätter att expandera genom värvning av två starka miljöprofiler, Anders Modig och Bertil Rosquist. Båda kommer nu senast från miljöteknikkonsulten Sweco.