Entrepreneurship and sustainable development – Budeș Cristian George
Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. Sustainable entrepreneurship refers to a special subset of entrepreneurship that aims at creating and implementing solutions to environmental problems and to promote social change so that the environment is not harmed.
Sustainable development is often brought in discussion in workshops where successful sustainable entrepreneurs teach the teenagers about the needs of today and tomorrow.We were delighted to participate in such a workshop in the week spent in Slovenia.The workshop was organised by Gimnazija Celje-Center in collaboration with the Make Sense project. Former students of GCC that are now sustainable entrepreneurs sat at the round table (Filip and Urh Burnik-twins, Mitja Suvajc, mag. Peter Čakš) and had a debate about how teenagers could find sustainable solutions that will be used in the future. The debate took place on the topic of research, how to help children in research, how to be a good mentor, entrepreneurship, importance of social science, the need for different mentors, a little something about Tesla and how Elon Musk tries to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions.They also explained how cryptocurrencies are really important for the future but other than Bitcoin because it could harm the environment in the future due to the excessive electricity used in mining.
The entrepreneurs also tried to motivate all the students explaining that you have to work hard for things, even if they look impossible. You need to firstly fall and fail to achieve greatness because even some of the greatest companies were considered a joke at the beggining and succeeded after years.
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