The offline Chinese screening of 'Three Meals That Matter' was a big hit with the Shanghai masses. Over 50 people rocked up to our Greennovate event space to learn about our food choices. It was a tight squeeze but people were still engaged. Kimberly Ashton, who joined us from the Wellness Works, led an insightful Q&A about how food culture in the past of our grandparents' generation differs from now, amongst other changes like portions + sizes and the penchant...

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Join us on Feb 15th to experience 'Three Meals That Matter', the premiere screening of our latest animated video on GECKO Online! There will also be a talk about how our food choices impact the well-being of our bodies and the environment led by Wellness Works' Kimberly Ashton. Where: 1/F, Event Space, No. 3, Lane 47, Shaoxing Lu (close to Shaanxi Nan Lu) When: Feb 15th at 7pm Please RSVP to flora.lan@greennovate.net
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The Greennovate team commenced the week back at work after a long festive period outside the office at a talk given by Gunter Pauli, founder of ZERI, and initiator of the Blue Economy paradigm by presenting 100 innovative businesses that are taking the sustainable approach. The Blue Economy has been compiled into a book project about the top 100 start-up business innovations or nature-inspired technologies that can affect various economies...

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Come start the Chinese New Year on a green note in cosy, chilled but eco-conscious climes in our Shaoxing office over hot tea this Thursday (9/2/2012) and catch the English screening of 'The Secret Lives of Our Clothes' as well as some interesting videos about the hidden price tag of your apparel! Doors open at 6.30pm and event begins promptly at 7pm! Address is 1/F ( the event room) No. 3, Lane 47, Shaoxing Lu (close to Shaanxi Nan Lu). Please RSVP to nijoint@gmail.com.
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Our e-learning platform on sustainability came in second for the 2011 Multimedia Projects for Environmental Conservation Award, under the Ford Conservation & Environmental Grants, China (CEGC) for our abbreviated 3-minute version of Lessons from the Past animated video about Easter Island and how its historical environmental collapse points to parallels in our world today. We are extremely happy about this recent achievement...

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It is a new year and a new beginning! We have just moved to a new office space on Shaoxing Lu and will be having a small opening event on 12th Jan (Thursday) to grace the space and screen our latest lesson 'The Secret Lives of Our Clothes'! Event begins around 7pm (Doors open at 6.30pm) at 3/F, No. 3, Lane 47, Shaoxing Lu (close to Shaanxi Nan Lu) 绍兴路47弄3号3 楼， 近陕西南路. Please RSVP to: feifeilan@hotmail.com.
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With all the business + sustainability training we've been doing with FedEx in 6 cities throughout China since September, we thought we'd do something a little different to break the office monotony, and bring what we teach to the great outdoors. Together with Biker Guangzhou, a local environmental group that has been promoting green commuting in Guangzhou City, we organized a community bike ride for about 60 FedEx employees with their friends and family at the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre where 10 local institutions are located...

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Dear friends and partners, WE ARE MOVING!!!  We are proud to announce our new partnerships with XinDanWei and The Wellness Works. Together, we are launching a creative space concept called Grasslands this December. The aim is to bring other like-minded social entrepreneurs, freedom fighters, environmentalists, health advocates, sustainability consultants, wellness practitioners, and human-centered designers under one roof. Our new office and event space is now at 47 Shaoxing...

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Even though it was a Saturday, the Shenzhen FedEx Green Team made time to train with us Greennovators and even brought their kids in tow for the latest sojourn of the Green Footprints Program. Our youngest Greennovator-in-training was just under 2-years-old. While we got the parents thinking and innovating about implementing sustainability into their daily work processes, we got the kids dreaming about what their future green city would look like 50 years from now. The end product? One eight-year-old's imagination brought to life on paper: a city full of heart-shaped trees, renewable energy...

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Yesterday evening, we hosted a salon with the help of environmental student group Green Wind at an independent bookshop (荒野书店). We even met with a company there that is promoting composting technology for home + professional use in China that turns food waste into organic fertilizer! We were duly impressed by the skill, proactivity and knowledge existing with companies, environmental organizations and grassroots groups in Shenzhen. Most importantly, the salon we hosted truly got people connecting and mingling on a very deep level. We created what in the corporate world would call 'synergy'....

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