By Making It on 5 January, 2013
A snapshot of Island Cycle, Jamaica’s new recycling business.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged carbon footprint, Caribbean, Centre for Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, generation next, Island Cycle, Jamaica, Leanne Talbot, Montego Bay, Recycling, Richard Branson, Xavier Bedasse, young innovators
By Making It on 20 April, 2012
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz is creating eco-ethical fashion from recycled scrap cloth and fabrics made by women living near one of the Philippines’ biggest rubbish dumps.
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Amina Aranaz-Alunan, career potential, designer handbags, eco-ethical fashion, empowerment of women, entrepreneurial capacities, entrepreneurship, fashion designers, handicrafts, Oliver Tolentino, Payatas, Philippines, Rags2Riches, Rajo Laurel, recycled, Recycling, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, rubbish dump, Singapore, women entrepreneurs, women's economic empowerment, World Entrepreneurship Forum
By Making It on 15 June, 2011
Patrick Kormawa argues that a shift to an agribusiness development growth trajectory is crucial for poverty reduction
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, Abuja, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-processing, capital, clean, dependency, development, East Asia, economic growth strategies, efficient, energy, exploiting, financing, food security, GDP, Global, globalization, green, green revolution, growth, human resource, Industrial Development Organization, industrialization, infrastructure, innovation, institution, intervention, issue 6, labour-intensive, land, Latin America and the Caribbean, low-carbon, Making It magazine, modernity, nation, Nigeria, Patrick Kormawa, policy, policymaker, poverty reduction, private enterprise, prosperity, public, Recycling, renewable, services, social stability, Sough Asia, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, sustainable intensification, systems, technology, Thailand, The Future of Food and Farming, transparency, UNIDO, United Nations, urbanization, value addition, World Bank, youth employment, Zimbabwe
By Making It on 10 December, 2009
Twenty years since the concept of industrial ecosystems was first proposed, RENE VAN BERKEL considers strategies for achieving further eco-industrial development.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Asia, Australia, Berkel, business, capacity, China, circular economy, Dalian, dry-ice production, eco-industrial park, energy, Europe, Guigang City, industrial ecosystems, industrial matchmaking, integrated recycling systems, Issue 1, Japan, Kalundborg, Kawasaki, Kwinana, landfill, legislation, Malaysia, Map Ta Put, Materials, Mexico, national industrial symbiosis programme, natural resources, nisp, North America, organic, Penang, Perth, petrochemical industry, planning, policy, polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, Recycling, Shenyang, solvents, South Korea, Strategies for Manufacturing, Tampico, Thailand, Ulsan, US, waste carbon dioxide, water
By Making It on 7 December, 2009
Microsoft’s SEAN NICHOLSON reviews the commercial possibilities presented by e-waste.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, components, computers, corporations, development, disassembly, e-waste, EU, European Union, global manager of emerging solutions, global waste, government, Issue 1, it companies, job satisfaction, microsoft, multinational companies, non-profit organizations, pc-reuse, pcs, policy, Recycling, refurbished pcs, sean nicholson, seattle, social programmes, solving the e-waste problem, step, UK, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, US, waste
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