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The current projects being undertaken by the initiative are highlighted below:
1. Romance with the Environment: On Valentine’s Day, students come together
across various campuses to celebrate love by taking care of the environment.
2. Aerated Composting: This teaches students about static aerated composting
and waste management operations. Encourages students to work first-hand with
sustainability projects on campus and gain valuable skills.
3. Bike-Friendly Campus: This strives to make students become more bikefriendly through increased bike parking, bike lanes, bike loans, as well as bike
signage in the community (Green Institute 2018).
4. Clothing Swap and Free Store: Students are encouraged to take their clothes
once every semester and exchange them for something new. This is a great way
of cleaning out their closets and apartments as the semester ends.
5. Documentary Night: This is an old yet favorite initiative by the campus
that allows students to get together to watch and talk about environmental
documentaries.
6. Green Garden: The garden provides opportunities for planting, maintaining, and
harvesting annually.
7. Other Initiatives: These include Green energy, outreach and community service,
outings, camping, parties, recycled notebooks, ride board, special events, zerowaste events, new projects, waste, and energy and sustainability audits.
In your local community or family, can you identify people who have come
up with Green businesses? Identify at least two, and describe how their work
has been instrumental in promoting Greenness.
11.6 The Role of Green Entrepreneurship in Achieving
the Sustainable Goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to be achieved by 2030
(refer to Chap. 10). Green Entrepreneurship can be instrumental for achieving these
goals.
11.6.1 Tackling Poverty and Social Inequality
The first Sustainable Development Goal seeks to eradicate all forms of poverty
across the globe, while the tenth SDG aims to end all forms of inequality, including
reduction of income inequalities. Green entrepreneurship can be instrumental in
creating jobs and equity to empower people. Green growth targets economic
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The current projects being undertaken by the initiative are highlighted below:
1. Romance with the Environment: On Valentine’s Day, students come together
across various campuses to celebrate love by taking care of the environment.
2. Aerated Composting: This teaches students about static aerated composting
and waste management operations. Encourages students to work first-hand with
sustainability projects on campus and gain valuable skills.
3. Bike-Friendly Campus: This strives to make students become more bikefriendly through increased bike parking, bike lanes, bike loans, as well as bike
signage in the community (Green Institute 2018).
4. Clothing Swap and Free Store: Students are encouraged to take their clothes
once every semester and exchange them for something new. This is a great way
of cleaning out their closets and apartments as the semester ends.
5. Documentary Night: This is an old yet favorite initiative by the campus
that allows students to get together to watch and talk about environmental
documentaries.
6. Green Garden: The garden provides opportunities for planting, maintaining, and
harvesting annually.
7. Other Initiatives: These include Green energy, outreach and community service,
outings, camping, parties, recycled notebooks, ride board, special events, zerowaste events, new projects, waste, and energy and sustainability audits.
In your local community or family, can you identify people who have come
up with Green businesses? Identify at least two, and describe how their work
has been instrumental in promoting Greenness.
11.6 The Role of Green Entrepreneurship in Achieving
the Sustainable Goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to be achieved by 2030
(refer to Chap. 10). Green Entrepreneurship can be instrumental for achieving these
goals.
11.6.1 Tackling Poverty and Social Inequality
The first Sustainable Development Goal seeks to eradicate all forms of poverty
across the globe, while the tenth SDG aims to end all forms of inequality, including
reduction of income inequalities. Green entrepreneurship can be instrumental in
creating jobs and equity to empower people. Green growth targets economic