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Inspiring Story: The value of having a 'friend at the other end'

Sally Broom loved travel, but wasn't so fond of the effect that mass tourism has on local people and the environment. So she set aside a planned legal career to develop ethical travel website Your Safe Planet.

News Story: Future entrepreneurs lack green inspiration from leaders of today

Over 70 percent of young people in Britain believe there is a lack of inspirational green entrepreneurs for them to look up to, according to research released today by Make Your Mark.

Date Published:

29 September 2009

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Inspiring Story: Alternative Graduate School

Alison Cole and Ann Nguyen believe that designing human solutions does not necessitate an expensive graduate degree. They are designing a prototype for free and meaningful graduate level education in an ecovillage in Auroville, India!

Inspiring Story: Striking A Pose

Amy Hutchings is an artist, illustrator and printer. She makes colourful, hand-printed fashion and interior accessories using organic, fair-trade denims and cottons, vintage and pre-loved materials, to create quirky and original fabrics using only traditional methods.

Inspiring Story: Blue Ventures

Blue Ventures is a pioneering marine conservation and development organisation, set up by Alasdair Harris and based in London and Madagascar.

Inspiring Story: An Innovating Festival-Goer

Whilst studying Product Design James Dunlop, 23, came up with the idea for MyHab, an eco friendly two-person habitat made from recycled cardboard and plastic.

Inspiring Story: Tribe Wanted

Launched in 2006, Tribe Wanted is a concept created to develop a sustainable eco-community and interactive online community on the 200 acre island of Vorovoro in Fiji.

Inspiring Story: Anti-Apathy

Whether she’s creating bags made from seat belts or replacing Valentine’s roses with snowdrops, Cyndi Rhoades is helping one person at a time live a more sustainable life.

Useful Link: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

One of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK, making grants of £26 million across the UK per year. Grants are made in four programme areas: Arts and Heritage, Education, Environment and Social Development.