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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After a one-week break, the Green Movie Night will make a dramatic return with carefully selected TED talks. It's the time of mid-autumn festival, and the weather these days is just right to sit on the rooftop and watch movies! The concept of TED night will be the same as this week: You can send your favourite talks to Flora (lanfeifei@hotmail.com), and we will screen a selection of user submitted talks next Wednesday, while having little discussions about the topics. Make sure that the talk you want to submit, is about a sustainability or world issue, and it should be available with Chinese...

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Hello Movie Fans, After last week our movie night had to be cancelled due to a heavy rainstorm, this week will be our third TED - themed movie night. After all, there is a huge selection of TED talks, and we have only watched a few so far. The concept of TED night will be the same as this week: You can send your favourite talks to Flora (lanfeifei@hotmail.com), and we will screen a selection of user submitted talks next Wednesday, while having little discussions about the topics. Make sure that the talk you want to submit, is about a sustainability or world issue, and it should be available...

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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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Our movie night has become very popular, and we are overwhelmed by the nice people and the refreshing atmosphere. This week's film 'Earthlings' was suggested to us by a movie night guest. If you have a suggestion for what we should play, be it a short or long movie, just let us know! We get so many visitors now, that from next week on, we will introduce a reservation system. Our cozy rooftop can only accomodate 35 movie watchers, so we ask you to make a reservation in order to attend the event. Maybe we will bring a few tables and chairs in the next, so you can sit down and chat about the exchange....

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TEDxShanghai was an independently-organized chapter of the world-renowned TED Talks and we were very excited to be a part of it. Mihela spoke about rediscovering common sense and how it could be applied in the form of a Common Sense Index to inform consumers about the environmental and social impacts of their purchases. The event was streamed live on Tudou. More information at www.tedxshanghai.com.

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