Last Saturday, Greennovate’s founder, Mihela Hladin, was invited to Fudan University to attend the 2nd ‘Xunji Forum’, an event which promotes social innovation among young people in China. At the forum, Mihela shared her experiences in China with students from both Singapore and China. She talked about how Greennovate came into being, and her attitude towards environment and life. She described the “Pissed Off” gene as a central driver behind her own and many change makers’ actions. It has been the motivation to stay in China since, to promote sustainability concepts and education....

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On September 22nd, Shanghai celebrated the annual “No Car Day”, a national campaign aimed at reducing exhaust emissions and ease traffic congestion by limiting the number of private vehicles on the roads. The absence of a car ban (except for the area around the Expo Garden) did not deter a large group of bike fans, who gathered at 10am to go on a fun city ride, from the Plum gallery on West Nanjing Road to the Waterhouse hotel on the banks of the Huangpu river. The event was organized by GoodtoSH,...

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The conference room of the USA Pavilion at Shanghai Expo was filled yesterday by more than 100 students from Chinese universities, who all had the same goal: winning the ‘GreenCup’ award for their sustainability project! As members of AIESEC student organization, the students have been running green projects in their cities, such as Wuhan, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Beijing, Dalian, Nanjing, and Shanghai. For ‘GreenCup@Expo’, Greennovate and AIESEC worked together to organize this special event. Several distinguished members of the corporate world attended the event, to learn more about...

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After last week's great TED movie sucess, we decided to have another movie night wit the same theme: We will watch only TED Talks. TED is short for Technology, Entertainment and Design It is an annual conferences which aims at bringing together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). A lot of us are big TED fans, and we watch the talks on their website. Now we want to give everyone the opportunity to recommend their favourite TED Talk, and we will play a selection of them during today's...

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For the first time, on 24th August 2010, AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, will hold an environmental themed conference at the Expo in Shanghai, where 10 project teams from all over China will compete for the Green Cup and a prize of 5000 RMB! The four- hour- event,...

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On 20 August, starting at 7pm, we will hold a GECKO Training session in our office in Shanghai. The address is: Room 203, Building 1, 528 Kangding Road, Shanghai. The easiest way to get there is to take the Metro to Changping Road Station (on line 7). From there it's just a 5 minute walk. It's a great opportunity to get started as a volunteer. During the training, you will learn how the program functions, what content there is, and how to deliver it at High Schools. You will also receive access to all the teaching materials. And meet cool people! To get some background knowledge before...

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Hello Movie Night Fans! Next week we will have a special movie night: We will watch only TED Talks. TED is short for Technology, Entertainment and Design It is an annual conferences which aims at bringing together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). A lot of us are big TED fans, and we watch the talks on their website. Now we want to give everyone the opportunity to recommend their favourite TED Talk, and we will play a selection of them during next Wednesday's movie night. To...

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