New: GECKO places on Google Maps!

Posted by: admin    Tags:  , , , , , ,     Posted date:  October 26, 2010  |  No comment


Today we are proud to launch our brand new GECKO Places map! On Googles Maps Online Service, you can see each and every location that GECKO has visited since March 2008. It's a comvenient way to visualize GECKO's activities. On the map, just click on the placemarks, and a window will pop up, with a short description, picture, and link to the longer report on our blog. View GECKO...

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GECKO partners with student clubs in eight cities

Posted by: Tom Bley    Tags:  , , ,     Posted date:  October 13, 2010  |  No comment



It's the start of a new semester at Chinese universities, and GECKO will be there. We have set up partnerships with AIESEC student clubs in eight Chinese cities: Chengdu, Nanjing, Guangzhuo, Ningbo, Dalian, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Beijing. The new partnerships have been formed as a result of a selection process, based on project plans that every club submitted. The application details included a implementation plan, timeline, and budget. The selected clubs will receive a bundle of benefits from Greennovate in support of their project. We will visit them in their city, do environmental...

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AIESECers bring GECKO to 2300 Shanghai students

Posted by: Tom Bley    Tags:  , ,     Posted date:  June 28, 2010  |  No comment


Over the past two months, five international students did their best to spread the message of GECKO in Shanghai. All in all, Sarah Heymans, Peter Seraganian, Lim Gene Harn, Lau Guey Ai and Ramona Chia reached out to more than 2300 students at four different schools. Since they sent us detailed feedback about their classes, we want to share their insights:
We had the benefit of presenting in a large auditorium, only to a few hundred students, while our presentation was webcasted to the rest of the cohort. Students were bubbly, excited and highly responsive, actively participating...

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Fudan Students raising funds for GECKO

Posted by: Tom Bley    Tags:  , , ,     Posted date:  June 7, 2010  |  No comment


We at Greennovate are fortunate to have a large number of supporters. Last week, our friends from Fudan University especially impressed us! They had approached Greennovate to to ask for a contribution towards one of their activities. We were happy to donate 200 Reuse bags for their one-day fundraiser. These fashionable bags were to be sold by teams of students all over Shanghai, thus turning this fundraising activity into a business competition for the AIESEC students. The winning team sold all bags which had been allocated to them, but surely the happiest winner is the GECKO program, which...

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