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Social Entrepreneurship: Updated
I just wrote an email to Caroline Howe, who is one of a few people running the India Youth Climate Network. She and I are friends, after we got to spend a fair amount of time hanging out in Lodhi Gardens when I was living and working in India last summer--but I don't know much at all about how her life, or how her efforts at the IYCN are going.
Anyway, here's what I wrote her:
Hi Caroline!
It's been a while since we last talked--how are you? How is the
climate project in India going? Are you still living in New Delhi? Do
you hang out w/ Nate or the others much?
Anyway, I've started poking around at urgentevoke.com (that's a online
alternate reality game designed to engage people with solving real
world problems.) and my current 'mission' is to shadow a social
entrepreneur and write them an email asking about what they do and how
it is going...
So what is the biggest thing you've been up to/are up to these days? I
saw photos online of Holi 2010 in India, and for a moment I really got
nostalgic... how is everything?
When she writes back, I'll post her reply here.
At any rate, her twitter handle is CarolynClimate, and the IYCN is at www.IYCN.in.
UPDATE: Caroline wrote me back the same day. She's really an amazingly energetic person.
Here's the text she sent me, atleast, all the stuff that will be interesting to someone who doesn't know her:
"The work in India is going great, though I've JUST gotten back to India (2 days back) after several months of visa limbo and
organizing/fundraising in the states, so things are just getting back
into the swing of things... My work is now really focused on scaling up the
work we had done previously, starting a business from our idea to
distribute solar and other enviro products to through Indian youth
sales agents... it's been slow to start, but post-Copenhagen this is
what I'm doing full time."
Here's a snippet also talking about what her primary focus was prior to Copenhagen:
"Post tour, I've been mostly working with university students throughout the rest of '09, training them on climate change and the solutions for
their own communities, and doing new business development for small
clean tech companies, all opportunities that emerged after the tour. I
have also been working to work with the International Youth Climate
Movement (check out youthclimate.org
and itsgettinghotinhere.org
and spent November and December of '09 in Copenhagen at the UN Climate
Negotiations after many months last year of fundraising to bring more
global south youth to the negotiations. I have been consulting for
UNICEF and UNEP on their youth engagement, and have been SO lucky to
travel the world with them doing trainings through 2009 -- to Nairobi to
train African youth, to Vietnam, and to Europe for the Global
Humanitarian Forum and UN's International Strategy on Disaster Reduction
where I was representing youth working on climate change mitigation as a
disaster risk reduction strategy. It was SUCH an exciting year!
Then, to pose a bigger challenge: we've decided to launch a company! It's against a lot of my NGO instincts, but it's been an incredible
experience so far, to see how to make this work sustainable in every way
-- including financially. The goal is to help clean tech companies get
their products to market faster and at a lower cost by engaging youth
sales agents working on commission and to give passionate youth
opportunities to actually implement solutions and build our future. So,
we're creating a distribution company for sustainable enviro products,
basically! So, 2010 has been nuts so far -- India's visa policy changed
meaning I couldn't re-enter til a month later than expected, during
which time we decided to partner with a US-based company so spent 10
days in Corvallis in this intense biz planning session and mini-MBA. The
rest, I think you're pretty caught up on -- I'm out of a house, living
chaotically, and frantically scrambling with the funds to get our
start-up going."
Anyway, here's what I wrote her:
Hi Caroline!
It's been a while since we last talked--how are you? How is the
climate project in India going? Are you still living in New Delhi? Do
you hang out w/ Nate or the others much?
Anyway, I've started poking around at urgentevoke.com (that's a online
alternate reality game designed to engage people with solving real
world problems.) and my current 'mission' is to shadow a social
entrepreneur and write them an email asking about what they do and how
it is going...
So what is the biggest thing you've been up to/are up to these days? I
saw photos online of Holi 2010 in India, and for a moment I really got
nostalgic... how is everything?
When she writes back, I'll post her reply here.
At any rate, her twitter handle is CarolynClimate, and the IYCN is at www.IYCN.in.
UPDATE: Caroline wrote me back the same day. She's really an amazingly energetic person.
Here's the text she sent me, atleast, all the stuff that will be interesting to someone who doesn't know her:
"The work in India is going great, though I've JUST gotten back to India (2 days back) after several months of visa limbo and
organizing/fundraising in the states, so things are just getting back
into the swing of things... My work is now really focused on scaling up the
work we had done previously, starting a business from our idea to
distribute solar and other enviro products to through Indian youth
sales agents... it's been slow to start, but post-Copenhagen this is
what I'm doing full time."
Here's a snippet also talking about what her primary focus was prior to Copenhagen:
"Post tour, I've been mostly working with university students throughout the rest of '09, training them on climate change and the solutions for
their own communities, and doing new business development for small
clean tech companies, all opportunities that emerged after the tour. I
have also been working to work with the International Youth Climate
Movement (check out youthclimate.org
and itsgettinghotinhere.org
and spent November and December of '09 in Copenhagen at the UN Climate
Negotiations after many months last year of fundraising to bring more
global south youth to the negotiations. I have been consulting for
UNICEF and UNEP on their youth engagement, and have been SO lucky to
travel the world with them doing trainings through 2009 -- to Nairobi to
train African youth, to Vietnam, and to Europe for the Global
Humanitarian Forum and UN's International Strategy on Disaster Reduction
where I was representing youth working on climate change mitigation as a
disaster risk reduction strategy. It was SUCH an exciting year!
Then, to pose a bigger challenge: we've decided to launch a company! It's against a lot of my NGO instincts, but it's been an incredible
experience so far, to see how to make this work sustainable in every way
-- including financially. The goal is to help clean tech companies get
their products to market faster and at a lower cost by engaging youth
sales agents working on commission and to give passionate youth
opportunities to actually implement solutions and build our future. So,
we're creating a distribution company for sustainable enviro products,
basically! So, 2010 has been nuts so far -- India's visa policy changed
meaning I couldn't re-enter til a month later than expected, during
which time we decided to partner with a US-based company so spent 10
days in Corvallis in this intense biz planning session and mini-MBA. The
rest, I think you're pretty caught up on -- I'm out of a house, living
chaotically, and frantically scrambling with the funds to get our
start-up going."
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