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Our adventure education pilot is in the making

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It’s not every day I feature Brazilian adventurers on my blog. But it’s going to be more of that in the future!

This movie clip was put together by professional adventurer Diogo Guerreiro of Destino Azul, The Good Tribe’s partner in putting together an adventure education concept. The adventure eduction concept is a fusion of ideas coming from different people and will evolve around sustainability, particularly issues regarding Zero Waste.

A pilot, which will also become a TV documentary, will be shot during Diogo’s, and his partner Flavio Jardim’s next adventure, which starts in two weeks. My bestie and business partner Gayathri Rathinavelu is the driving tribster behind the concept.

Very excited to follow and be a part of the progress! Yet another piece of the Zero Waste puzzle!

Have a great weekend!

xo,

Evelina

We need your old shirts – all kinds welcome!

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Over at The Good Tribe we’re initiating a very exciting fashion up-cycling initiative. The name and other details are still a BIG secret! Nevertheless, we need your help to kick things off!

My very dear friend, Alexandra Pötz is fashion designer, member of The Good Tribe and in charge of the design process. She needs all your shirts and blouses for men, women, and children that you don’t need any more. All kinds are welcome!

If you have something to give away, please contact Alexandra on Facebook or send her an email, alexandra [a] thegoodtribe [dot] com.

Please, help us spread the word!

Thank you very much for your contribution!

Stay tuned for more info about the initiative :)

xo,

Evelina

PS. Oh! I almost forgot! We’re starting to spread the word about our next clothes swapping event, which will be held during the autumn in Graz. We’re looking for volunteers and partners for the event. Let me know if you’re interested in participating somehow. The photo on top of the article is from our last big clothes swapping. I pimped the photo with my new app love, the Pixlromatic for iPhone. This app also works to use directly on their website, great fun!

To all fellow women social entrepreneurs!

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Chaska at Social Impact Award just sent me a tip to have a look at Girltank’s initiative 10 000 names in 100 days, which aim at gathering the names of 10 000 women social entrepreneurs and innovators in 100 days.

Read more about one of the initiators, Tara Roberts here.

Tara’s thoughts behind the initiative:

I began to wonder what would happen if [...] extraordinary young women from [...] diverse regions could pool their resources together and access a common collective of information and inspiration. Would their capabilities as leaders grow? Would their projects become stronger and more effective? Would they begin to work jointly and create even more powerful initiatives together?

The answers to these questions became Girltank.

So, dear fellow social entrepreneurs and innovators (under 30 – buhu!!) – sign up now! We need to improve our visibility. There seem to be nice prices as well! I have two questions though: What do they intend to do with all the names they gather? (Invite them to events, and their community?) And why have they used passport stamps in the graphic design? (What does that have to do with the topic?)

xo,

Evelina

Starting to spread the word about our research

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I’m very excited to announce that we (as in Michael Bauer-Leeb and I) are preparing to go out and talk about our research on facilitating business relationships between social entrepreneurs and business angels.

This is what I dreamt about all last year, during the reading and writing, to tell people about our findings. And perhaps more importantly – to engage in dialogue on how to develop the sphere of social entrepreneurship. And definitely most important – to conduct better business in order to take better care of ourselves and our planet.

Here are some of the topics we’re going to talk about.

  • What is social entrepreneurship (and why it is so difficult to define), and its role in the currently changing economic paradigms.
  • How to enhance communication between social entrepreneurs and investors and increase social entrepreneurs’ chances of finding an investor.
  • Differences between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship.
  • How can my business benefit from including social and environmental, along side profit seeking in the core business.

Read more over at The Good Tribe.

Let me know if you have any interesting and fun people we should talk to! :)

In general I’m very proud to say that there’s loooootttss of stuff happening behind the scenes in The Good Tribe right now. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend!

xo,

Evelina

Photo: Rupert Pessl

Try wichteln next Xmas

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From my wichtel, my brother in law Martin, I got vouchers for a sunrise breakfast experience on the highest mountain in Steiermark, Dachstein.

This year I celebrated Xmas on the mountain for the third time. I like it a lot! It’s very different from my Swedish Xmas, especially the food.

There’s one Xmas tradition on the mountain that I especially like, wichteln. LEO translates wichteln with “to do a secret Santa”, and that’s exactly what it is. Everyone writes their names on pieces of papers that are put in a jar. Then everyone draws one name each. This is the person you should get/make/buy an Xmas gift! You can’t tell anyone which name you drew, because everything has to be prepared in secret.

In the name of sustainability, wichteln certainly has advantages. It reduces stress, eases pressure on the wallet, and reduces the amount of stuff that tend to pile up… Perhaps something you’d like to try next year?

xo,

Evelina