FeelGood is a youth movement committed to ending world hunger in our lifetime. On college campuses across the U.S., FeelGood students run non-profit delis speciali-zing in grilled cheese sandwiches. 100% of deli proceeds are invested in organizations sustainably eradicating global hunger.

But FeelGood delis are more than a vehicle for raising money. They’re also a place for creative interaction and education—an inviting environment for customers to learn about hunger’s causes, consequences and solutions.

By learning to run a successful social enterprise, while becoming knowledgeable and effective advocates of a criti-cal global issue, FeelGood students experience firsthand their capacity as changemakers: People with the ability to respond creatively, compassionately and strategically to the world's most pressing needs.

Education & Global HealthKristin Walter & Talis Apud

http://www.feelgoodworld.org

Shareable.net is a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects bringing a shareable world to life. In a shareable world, things like car sharing, clothing swaps, childcare coops, potlucks, and cohousing make life more fun, green, and affordable.

The remarkable successes of Zipcar, Wikipedia, Kiva, and Creative Commons show this. They tell a hopeful story about human nature and our future, one we don't hear enough in the mainstream media.

They show that a new world is emerging where the more you share the more respect you get, and where life works because everyone is motivated to help each other.

A shareable world might be just what's needed to enjoy life to the fullest today while creating a better tomorrow. And it's being built by people from all walks of life right now. Sharea-ble is your invitation to join these innovators today.

Sharing EconomyMilicent Johnson

http://www.shareable.net

“Will I get water today?” In almost all of the cities in South Asia and at least a third of those in the rest of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, families face this question every day. These millions of households have a piped water supply; however, water is only available through these pipes for a few hours at a time. NextDrop leverages the recent proliferation of mobile phones in India to provide households with accura-te and timely information about local piped water delivery, while also enabling water utilities to access real-time informa-tion about the status of their distribution system. In Phase 1 of our pilot project, NextDrop sourced this information from water consumers: by providing micro-payment incentives, consumers notified our automated interactive voice response (IVR) system when the water began flowing, and NextDrop in turn notified residents in the same locality of the current delivery of water. In Phase 2, we have partnered with the public water utility – the Hubli-Dharwad Water Board – and will now receive updates directly from utility employees who physically open the valves in order to provide advance notice of water delivery.

International DevelopmentAnu Sridharan

http://nextdrop.org/

Technology and Services for ChangeLloyd Nimetz

RippleQ powers good corporate culture. Companies use RippleQ to manage their employee engagement programs. For employees, RippleQ provides an engaging social media application to learn about company programs, connect with co-workers, and "check-in" their activity. For companies, RippleQ serves as a powerful tool to communicate their pro-grams, track employee activity in real-time, and collect stories/media from the group up. RippleQ was founded out of Stanford University by Lloyd Nimetz and is run by an energetic team of entrepreneurs who came together after all starting software companies on our own. We have deep experience in cloud computing, social software, and social enterprise. We are passionate about our work and believe that enterprise social software, coupled with great vision and leadership, will transform the market economy over the next decade.

http://www.rippleq.com/

LoudSauce is the world’s first crowdfunded media buying platform, where users promote ideas that matter through mainstream advertising channels like TV, billboards, and more. Our vision is to transform the medium of advertising from driving consumption to fueling civic participation.

There are many great ideas and projects, but too many have limited awareness and low marketing budgets. We believe that crowd funded media buying can uniquely bridge this marketing gap by aggregating funders to help ideas move beyond social networks to reach completely new audiences.

Crowd Funded MediaColin Mutchler

http://loudsauce.com

GUTTS creates sustainable auto- and motorsports, buil-ding various race and rally cars that run on biofuels and helping crews to become more sustainable. In the Nether-lands GUTTS has contributed to large number of sustainable projects in motorsports. In total some 30 crews are racing on alternative fuels and making motorsports more sustaina-ble and we are looking to double that number in 2011. GUTTS is opening the first online store that is dedicated to sustainable racing: crews will be able to order their green race fuel, parts for converting cars to sustainable racecars and find information on sustainable racing and info on crews that are already green.

sustainable racingEdward Goossens

http://www.gutts.nl

A platform for neighborhood improvementCarl Lens & Stijn van Balen

Verbeterdebuurt foundation runs a prizewinning platform that engages people to improving their neigh-borhood. With our mobile application and through our web application people can post problems and ideas in their neighborhoods that will appear as pushpins and lightbulbs on a map. 300 out of 418 councils in the Netherlands participate in our projects, solving the thousands of reports that we have gathered, resulting in many green flags on the map.

http://www.verbeterdeburt.nl

Extended life cycle: A Revolution In Material Apparel

The fashion Industry is a multi-billion dollar market world- wide. The amount of waste generated from making new fashion is astronomical. What the R.I.M.A. initiative will do is to break the glass ceiling of what “upcycled” fashion is marketed as currently. Our goal; extended the life cycle of all apparel and make a profit. This will create jobs and change the way fashion recycles itself. Through collaborating with brands to use their facilities in a more sustainable way from beginning to end, by “remixing”/ re-making the dead-stock, overstock, samples and end of roll fabrics, into new designs which sell at a higher price due to there limited production and unique status.

FashionRima Freeman

http://www.freemanrimix.com

Streetwear made by streetkidsCarmen van de Vecht

Carmen runs Rambler, a clothing label by and for home-less teenagers. These streetkids are the image and brand. They get a platform and a part of the profit.From following her passion for photography, Carmen star-ted to shoot portraits of children in Ghana’s orphanages, which she later exhibited on giant billboards Amsterdam. By doing so, she tried to bring youth indirect in contact with each other. Then in London sparked by a curiosity to explo-re a similar situation in a western environment, she started to photograph youth in orphanages in London. This is when her fascination with clothing started. Intrigued by their appearance, she started designing clothes with homeless youth. She was first in line to sign up for a membership in Hub Amsterdam. Every Friday for the first year and a half you would find her at the Hub’s lunch table with a group of homeless youth working on the design of their own fashion items.

http://www.rmblr.com

Hampi’s natural leaf plates are based on a simple but brilliant idea: use naturally shed leaves to create a whole range of natural design tableware. Hampi plates are pro-duced by heat pressing leaves of a special kind of tree grown in tropical countries. The process uses no chemi-cals or waxes. It’s 100% natural.

where recycling is a natural way of life. But being smart

anywhere in the world.

and restaurants have been using the plates and without fail their guests were delighted. Since April 2011 our Na-tural Tableware collection goes on sale in De Bijenkorf. In January 2011 we won the Columbus Trofee at the BBB Horecavakbeurs in Maastricht.

Sustainabale disposablesFrederic Sanders & Vikram Kandula

http://www.hampiproducts.com

Corporate Social MediaSean Wood

Freeworld Media's

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http://www.freeworldmedia.com

The Urbane Environmentalist is a new approach to communicating the benefits of green living and home construc-tion in an accessible and understandable way. As the former head of two of the country’s leading green building initiatives, Jim Hackler brings a unique industry insider’s perspective on what it means to be green. His professional background also includes broadcast journalism working in local television news, CNN and the exclusive eco-reporter for PumpTopTV; editor in chief of

million-dollar traveling exhibit on green building for the Museum

continuing education on corporate messaging, blogging and online video production. Jim is a member of the Atlanta Press Club, serves on the GreenPlate board and is a strategist for the

Green CommunicationsJim Hackler

www.TheUrbaneEnvironmentalist.com

Environmental/Sustainability NewsBeth Bond

At Southeast Green, it is important for us to create a dynamic business community and communicate how busi-nesses, non-profits and governments in the Southeast are growing, changing and influencing sustainability. The mission

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of companies, non-profits and governments who are com-mitted to impacting their environment and communities right here in the Southeast.

www.southeastgreen.com

Peak Focus is the only soft skills training, coaching and publishing group dedicated to helping select entrepreneu-rs, professionals and business owners create sustainable businesses by coaching them to maximize their abilities, activities, aim and passion. Whether you’re starting out with only a novel idea or you’re responsible for a company reinventing its future, we’ll work with you to select and build your best team, pushing past “best practices” for transformative change.

Expert Generalist & SustainabilityPaula Collins

www.peakfocuscoach.com

More Associates is a ground-breaking sustainable innovation practice with a specialism in creating carbon behaviour change software, integrated with user-centred design.

The organisation was created by founding Hub member Luke Nicholson and has since grown to around ten mem-bers of staff. Their current initiative, CarbonCulture, is pioneering new ways for organisations to reduce energy consumption and is running pilot schemes in a number of UK government departments.

Sustainability ConsultancyMore Associates

http://www.moreassociates.com/

Environmental & Youth AdvocacyKirsty Schneeberger

Kirsty Schneeberger is on the Board of Directors for the International Court for the Environment Coalition and is coordinating the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel. She also coordinates Think2050, an advocacy platform for young and future generations.Kirsty was honoured as an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list this year for services to environmental con-servation and her work as coordinator of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. She has been involved in the UNFCCC negotiations as a policy analyst and youth advocate for the Youth Constituency since Poznan in 2008, and she led the UK youth delegation to 2009 COP in Copenhagen.

http://think2050.org

Arthur Potts-Dawson is a well-known chef and TV star who founded the People’s Supermarket - a sustaina-ble food cooperative with 1,000 members that responds to the needs of the local community and provides healthy, local food that’s fair to consumers and producers, at rea-sonable prices.

A Channel 4 documentary series in February 2011 followed Arthur’s journey to launch the supermarket, and the Prime Minister David Cameron visited it that month as part of his Big Society launch.

Sustainable food co-operativeArthur Potts-Dawson

http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org

UN CampaignerImogen Martineau

Imogen Martineau is a successful sustainability campaigns consultant. Former Head of Communications for Forum for the Future, she now works for the Sustainable United Nations team which oversees the UN's in-house perfor-mance on sustainable development.

In November 2009 Imogen was profiled in national newspa-per The Independent in the article “Movers and Shakers at the Vanguard of the Eco Revoluition”.

http://www. martineauandco.com

Greentraveller is a well-known and respected sustai-nable travel and tourism website, which receives around 45,000 unique visitors each month.

Richard has been a Hub member for several years and his organisation is growing, and thriving at Islington. He has recently brought out the Green Guide to London in part-nership with Visit England and is often called upon to provide thought leadership in the national media and con-ference circuit on sustainable travel.

Green travelRichard Hammond

http://www.greentraveller.co.uk

Environmental ProtectionRémi Parmentier

The Varda Group offers strategic advice and campaigning expertise across a wide range of environmental and social issues. Consultancy services are provided by Varda BV (The Netherlands), Varda Desarrollo Sostenible SL (Spain), Varda (UK) Ltd, and Varda, Inc. (US). In addition, Stichting Varda, anot-for-profit non-governmental organisation, carries out independent advocacy initiatives. The Varda Group was esta-blished in 2003 by Kelly Rigg and Rémi Parmentier.

The Varda group mission is to provide strategic services and support, with the aim of creating maximum change for the benefit of people and the planet.

A pioneer of environmentalism since the mid-70, was direc-tor of Greenpeace International from its founding until 2002.

http://www.vardagroup.org

Conchita Galdon is co-founder of Puentes Global means which means “Global Bridges,” and our name reflects our purpose: bridging the global gaps in semi-skilled, specialized labor and alleviating poverty. Our mutual values sparked the creation of Puentes, and provide us with the dedication, commitment, and impetus to promote sustainable, positive change through our mission.

Why we do exist? Puentes is a non-profit international mobility specialist for semi-skilled and specialized people fromlow socio-economic backgrounds.

How will we shape our world? Individuals have no control over where they are born. Yet today our nationality is one of the strongest determinants of our general welfare (economic and otherwise).

social empowermentConchita Galdón

http://www.puentesglobal.org

SportsGermán Argüelles

Germán Argüelles is co-founder of InspiraSports which is a social enterprise specialized in the field of sports for development.The sport has emerged as an increasingly effective tool in the field of social action and both NGOsand public and private organizations are beginning to incor-porate sport as part of its CSR strategy.

Inspira Sports was created with the aim to fill this need by developing tools to maximize the potential of sport and education as a catalyst for development.

"Sport has the power to change the world, has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that few manage to", Nelson Mandela.

http://www.inspirasports.com

Anxo Perez was born in Galicia (Northern Spain). He worked as an interpreter for the Supreme Court of Virgi-nia, the FBI and DEA, and at the United States Senate. Hemoved to Brussels, to get an M.A., then on to Geneva, to work at the United Nations for 2 years, and Beijing and Shanghai, to study Mandarin Chinese. Throughout thoseyears he was fortunate to have the opportunity to learn 8 languages: Spanish, English, Galician, Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and German. For years he researched the secrets behind successful language learning, and in 2007 he decided to create a methodology based on those findings.

8Belts is an online methodology which allows any person willing to put in 30-45 min/ day to speak Chinese in just 4-5 months. Users define it as a system which is ingenious, innovative, dynamic, effective and unique. Instead of focu-sing on the teacher, the writing or the theory, 8Belts focu-ses on the student, oral communication and practicing.

LanguageAnxo Perez

http.//www.8belts.com

CommunicationMaria Luciana Reos

Maria Luciana Reos is founder of MG-i which is an expe-rienced communications group specialized in the develop-ment of ideas at a strategic level, leading to production of messages and creative solutions.

MG-i is based in Washington DC with production units in the U.S. and in Argentina. This organization allows us to offer our clients more efficient and cost effective solutions, since our team of professionals can organize resources and respond to themost demanding requirements and deadli-nes. Our competitiveness is based in both, quality and cost.

Our main services include communications consulting at astrategic level and the production necessary to execute asuccessful communication plan.

http://www.mg-i.org

Adam Le’Adam – Leadership for Tikkun Olam, is an Israeli NGO aimed at developing social and environmental leadership, which operates service learning programs in Israel and India.

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Drawing on Israel's expertise in international development,

Le'Adam leads several programs, which implement models

young leadership for social & environmental changeAdam LeAdam

http://www.adamleadam.org

Empowerment by TechnologyNiv Adi

MAGYX creates "Smart Content". It looks like a widget,

We create engagement, create relations, generate incomes and real ROI.

http://www.magyx.tv

The ‘Gebrüder Stitch’ (brothers stitch) are pioneering the ethical fashion industry in Austria.

Tired of their jobs in a marketing agency, they are now focusing on a creating a life-style brand and managed to take-over the market with their tailor-made eco-fair Jeans.

Ethical FashionGebrüder Stitch

http://www.gebruederstitch.at

Green DesignAngie Rattay & Adam Pawloff

One of the most successful products of the ‘Neon-green Network’ are the ‘Directions for Use for the Planet Earth’.

By using their design skills and translating scientific evi-dence into everyday’s language they designed an easy to understand guide of how to use our Planet. They recently launched a ‘kids edition’ for schools.

http://neongreen.net

The ‘Gebrüder Stitch’ Chris‘ company focuses on renewable energy, LED technology, sustainable transportation, and many other innovative appro-aches to use technology for change.

One of the most successful projects he is involved in, ‚Pod Points‘, provide a new approach to electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.

Green MobilityChris Jones

http://pod-point.com/

Financing Social InnovationGood.bee Bank

good.bee is a newly founded bank, operating in Central and Eastern Europe. They aim to provide financial services for social entrepreneurs and micro-finance.

The Hub Vienna was the first investment of good.bee in 2010.

http://www.goodbee.com/

El Sistema is an initiative in Venezuela, founded by José Antonio Abreu, that aims to get children off the street by educating them in classical music and grouping them together to an orchestra.

Currently, more than 400.000 children are in the system. Superar aims to replicate the vast success of El Sistema in Austria and the CEE region.

Youth EmpowermentJosé Antonio Abreu

http://www.superar.eu/

Healthy & Ethical ShoppingSylvie Chin

300 million people worldwide suffer from food allergies. Reading the small print on each product is just too diffi-cult and too time consuming.

ClearKarma offers a mobile application and an infor-mation website. People with food allergies see, based on personal allergies immediately the impact of their buying decisions on their personal health. We also propose healthy alternatives with eco-friendly and fair products.

http://www.clearkarma.org/

Water is scarce. And getting more so all the time. Even worse, with the world’s population becoming more urban, just building more conventional was-tewater treatment plants is no longer a practical answer for our global community. Organica is a global water management leader with patented water technology for treating and recycling wastewater. They combine traditional biological wastewater treatment methods with sophisticated ecological engineering, innovative process design and efficient control software.

Waste Water TreatmentOrganica Water

http://www.organicawater.com

Stephen Rockman

http://merismcapital.com

Merism Capital is a new incubator and seed fund investing between £50,000 and £150,000 for equity in social businesses to generate financial returns and social impacts. Together with Hub Westminster, Merism Capital has launched the Hub Venture Labs programme, a new social business incubator in central London.

Hub Venture Labs will provide a year round schedule of programmes aimed at nurturing a new breed of successful social start ups to increase their chances of running successful social businesses. As well as structu-red programmes covering everything from pitching to investing and scaling, there will be regular drop in mentoring sessions and monthly keynote Q and A's covering key topics such as marketing, law and HR.

Impact investment

Westminster

Christian Busch

http://www.sandbox-network.com/

Sandbox started in 2008 and is now the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers below 30. Sandbox identifies exceptional people worldwide that already have an impressive impact at a very young age, no matter in what field or industry. The growing community counts 550 young leaders in 45 different countries. Sandbox organises regular events in more than 16 cities in the US, in Europe and in Asia. They have a full time team based in four loca-tions, working day and night to create value for the community.

Sandbox incubates these talents in an environment where they can build meaningful relationships with like-minded peers, learn from senior leaders and gain access to opportunities that will help them grow.

Social entrepreneurs network

Westminster

Sustainable food catering & SuppliesTom & Angela Bonner

The People's Food Company is a social enterprise that serves delicious, homemade, fresh, seasonal food, in a variety of styles and settings. We work together with people in and around Kent and London that have found it tough to get work for all sorts of reasons.

We deliver delicious food at all sorts of venues with a unique service and style that never fails to impress. The People's Food Company is not just about the best food and the highest standards of customer service, we are a business with social justice at its heart. We work to provi-de exciting training, inspiring work experience, and well paid work opportunities, for all sorts of people who need a helping hand to find a rewarding career.

http://www.thepeoplesfoodcompany.org.ukWestminster

International developmentRachel Smith

GlobalGiving connects you to over 1,000 pre-screened grassroots charity projects around the world. It's an effi-cient, transparent way to make an impact with your giving. GlobalGiving begins with the dedicated, tenacious indivi-duals who are driving change in their communities. From running orphanages and schools, to helping survivors of natural disasters, these people are do-gooders to the core.

We connect these "good idea people" with the "generous giver people" and help projects of all sizes receive dona-tions of all sizes. You can browse projects from all over the world, give to the ones you are most passionate about, and see the impact of your donations.

http://www.globalgiving.co.uk Westminster

Julie Caulier-Grice

http://www.dialoguecafe.org

Dialogue Café uses state of the art video conferencing technology to enable face-to-face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences, learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place. Dialo-gue Café is a platform for innovation and creativity – enabling organisations and individuals to forge new links, consolidate existing ones and create new collaborations and projects. Dialogue Café is for individuals and organi-zations with a social, educational or cultural mission – such as foundations, civil society organizations, community groups, universities, schools, social enterprises, co-operatives, public sector bodies and agencies.

Dialogue Café is based on the radical but simple idea that people have many things in common and given the oppor-tunity, they will explore their common interests, sparking collaborations and stimulating ideas that address the major issues of today.

Media & communications

Westminster

Music 4 ChangeHugo Bollschweiler & Etienne Abelin

classYcal is an emerging socio-cultural enterprise that aims at contributing to positive change in society by deve-loping purposeful innovations in the field of the music formerly known as classical. First initiatives include the development of a "classYcal lounge"-format in a club setting, a video blog, classYcal.tv and the development of brand new music visualizations with a top artist.The dwindling and aging of audiences of conventional classical music concerts has become an undisputed fact. While the existing concert rituals can rightfully be called anachronistic, the potential of the music remains multi-facetted and, to a substantial degree, unlocked. classYcal sees the music formerly known as classical as an excellent way to provide us “storytelling beings” with narrative structures that can give us orientation and a sense of identity crucial in a rapidly changing complex global world.

http://www.classycal.tv

Karin Stierlin

http://www.ti-ka.com

LOVELAND is a target-group oriented teaching method that combines knowing and acting in consequen-ce. Answering the questions is based on teamwork so that no youngster will get hurt in their private status. Topics such as the communication about safe sex and the use and handling of condoms are integrated in LOVELAND and guarantee an HIV/Aids-prevention adapted to the public concerned.LOVELAND is meant to provide a lasting and playful HIV/Aids-prevention for young people throughout the world, thus enabling them to meet their sexuality in a responsible way.LOVELAND is a map with six different islands and rele-vant questions about the complex topic of HIV/Aids-prevention. In teams, the youngsters fly with a toy-helicoper from island to island and – by giving correct answers – they can gather points in the form of condoms or chips and acquire a broad knowledge in the field of HIV/Aids-prevention.

HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN A PLAYFUL CONTEXT

Lars Stein

http://www.studienaktie.org

studienaktie.org matches motivated individuals stri-ving for education with private investors and mentors that help them to fulfill their educational dream. With its holistic concept and entrepreneurial approach studienaktie.org shows the true value of education and helps every person to unfold his or her full productive potential – not matter the financial or social background.Lars Stein once found himself in the situation of almost having to suspend his studies for financial reasons. He then came up with the idea of involving investors in finan-cing his studies by selling shares on his future salary. This was the beginning of studienaktie.org: It finds private investors to support students – financially and as mentors – who are not eligible for government support or stipends because they don’t match the existing criteria. studienaktie.org, instead, bases its selection process on procedural criteria like responsibility and determination. Not applying any criteria for exclusion makes studienaktie.org the single program to truly support the education of persons of any talent.

EDUCATION FACILITATION

Urban agricultureRoman Gaus

urban Farmer’s mission is to develop closed-loop agricultural systems between fish farms and hydroponicvegetable gardens, so called Aquaponics, as UrbanFarms.

UrbanFarms rooftop greenhouses will provide organic, fresh and local food to the UrbanFarmers community and our direct customer base of consumers. A spin-off from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Wädenswil, UrbanFarmers aims to become a pioneer in the development of urban agriculture as part of a sustainable lifestyle in cities of the 21st century.

UrbanFarmers is the Hub Zurich WWF Fellow of 2011.

http://www.urbanfarmers.ch

Martin Ophoven

www.theatrecarbonique.be

Martin Ophoven is the mind behind Théâtre Carbo-nique. Comedian and playwright with a background in communications, Martin wanted to find a means of com-municating his ideals. Using his own talents as a starting point and with the encouragement of a Technical Carbon-Footprint Advisor who had had the same ques-tions about the role of the individual in bringing a change to the world, he wrote a play based on the corporate and social responsibilities of companies. It is a humorous, thought-provoking and unconventional approach to dis-cussing the issue of social responsibility which is perfor-

He came to the Hub to be in contact with consultants who might want to implement his tool in order to affect large numbers. Furthermore he finds that the Hub reflects his ideals in terms of showing a system that accepts all perspectives in order to work towards a better world, a system in which everyone's talents and competencies

Arts & Theatre

Sustainable products Martina Von Richter

Martina Von Richter is the mother of 3 boys and a once-upon-a-time consultant for sustainable development to large businesses. However, she decided that in order to best live out her ideals, she would have to get even more proactive. From this came -

She came to the Hub due the fact that she did not have an office from which to launch this business. On the hunt for a workplace and a network, she found both in the Hub Brussels.

Martina's main motivation was to be able to answer honestly and proudly when asked by the future genera-tion: What did you do when you saw the polar ice caps melting? What did you do when faced with the challenge of poverty?

http://www.imaginell.com

Dusan Jakovljevic & Juergen Ritzek

http://www.greencog.eu

Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes (EEIP) is a platform for Business and Policy in Europe. EEIP facilitates an open and inclusive dialogue within industry and between industry and policy involving manu-facturers of energy efficient equipment and systems, energy service companies, with the European Union policy makers.

EEIP current work focuses on industrial heat recovery, ecodesign (product vs process) and financing of industrial energy efficiency. EEIP operates through its unique mix of events, expert consortiums, round-tables and conferences, with personalised social media tools.

Dusan & Juergen are a perfect example of a collaborative project that has come from within the Hub. Over coffee one day they realised they shared vision, values and drive to create something new and positive so why not do this together maximising their skills, network and therefore possibility for impact.

Green Energy

Complementary CurrenciesLeander Bindewald

How much value lies in a community? How can we captu-re it and create even more of it? These questions lead to a working group at Hub Brussels in 2010 that explored the emergent field of complementary currencies for and within the Hub community context.

The Hub is the perfect example how social capital can be the launch pad for business creation and social impact on any scale. It is the individual connections that the Hub creates for 1st members, the shared intangible values and the personal collaborations that constitute the unique value proposition of a Hub for its member entrepreneurs.To best visualize and facilitate this Brussels member Lean-der Bindewald developed the XchangeHub online pla-tform. Members at Hub Brussels now have the tools to access and multiply the social capital created in their com-munity.

www.xchangehub.criterical.net

Luciana Delle Donne

http://www.madeincarcere.it

Luciana Delle Donne has created Officina Creativa after a career in the profit world, as banker and change manager. Officina Creativa is a not for profit co-operative in Southern Italy that in 2007 created the brand Made in Carcere (Made in Prison).

The prject was developed by women , for women: women inmates who have decided to use their creativity and imagination to create new products and accessories. They speak about the possibility of having another choice, of being given another chance and of building a different life,

Made in Carcere produces the most famous shopping bag in Southern Italy (in the town of Lecce). It is a symbol of a different way of approaching the concept of local develop-ment, based on recycled materials and social inclusion, on social entrepreneurship and on long term economic sus-tainability.

Social Integration

Animal WelfareVita Sgardello

Vita, a journalist and Host at The Hub Milano, is responsi-ble for the project Ruadan in Italy. Ruadan works alongsi-de non-profit organisations, securing vital information to support their animal welfare campaings. They work with law enforcement agencies across Europe to collect proof of illegal activities and provide high quality video and audio footage for media exposes.

The world of animal welfare is full of people with good intentions but few of them have the training, skills or equi-pment to successfully document the illegal exploitation of animal without breaking the law themselves, or putting themselves and others in danger.

We have plenty of projects in mind for the future, anyone interested in participating should contact us.

http://www.ruadan.co.uk

Marcello Coppa & Andrea Landini

http://www.eppela.com/

Eppela stems from the creativity of two young profes-sionals, who strongly believe in giving social businesses a space to grow. It’s a new crowdfunding projects that lets social innovators and entrepreneurs share their ideas online and get the necessary funding to launch them. Eppela backs their projects, lets them share them and get them off the ground for real.

Innovators come up with a project, set a minimun budget for its implementation and a deadline for collecting funds. Then they submit it to the Eppela community and spread the news, asking for financial support in exchange for a little bit of the idea, or for a token to keep: an object, an emotion, a greeting card, a book, etc. It is up to the public to assess the idea, to choose it and to make known. Eppela helps people find the project they were looking for, At this point, they can just make a contribution, bac-king the ideas of likeminded people and giving creativity a real chance.

Crowd Funding

Social JournalismMateo Dones & Cristiano Morati & Amedeo Novelli

Born in April 2007 out of the creative mind of three Milan-based passionate photographers, Witness Journal is the first online magazine of photojournalism. It is the result of a collective effort of all those who want to tell stories through the medium of images.

Witness Journal has a very innovative business approach. Each month, the authors of the 8 published reportages are not paid a set prive per picture; instead, they share equally 30% of all advertisement revenues, taking on a more entre-preneurial role and sharing part of the venture’s risk. The Witness Journal editors, on the other hand, take care of promoting each contribution alongside the entire magazine, and make sure this is compiled, edited, published, distribu-ted and marketed with advertisers.

http://witness.fotoup.net

Barbara Zucchi-Frua

http://www.l-hub.it

With a degree in pedagogy and a passion for individual’s true identities, Barbara has always been fascinated by the way the space can be used as a learning and creative con-tainer. Her personal roots go deep into the textile world (both her surname - Zucchi and Frua- represent families that have been in the industry for ages).

L’HUB grows out of this personal background as a project with the aim of helping people manufacture, purchase and sell self-made textile products. L’HUB is a shop, a lab and an association. It is where the “Made by Me” world finds its home.

At the heart of the L’HUB lies a textile workshop, both a channel for anyone’s creativity and a therapeutic space for those wishing to reconnect with their manual skilss and rediscover the pleasure of co-creating. It is also a space for social regenerations, where women facing all sort of personal and social challenges.

Ethical Fashion