Buckingham Enterprise and Green Day

Do you have a budding business idea, want to study for a business degree and get the chance to start up and run your own business?

If so, this 2-year scholarship competition, worth over £17,000*, sponsored by Aylesbury Vale District Council, could be for you.

Aylesbury Vale District Council will pay the fees of the winner of this competition to study for a BSc Business Enterprise honours degree at the University of Buckingham.

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Green Round Table Discussion

Green Round Table Discussion organised by Envirowise is taking place on 18 November, 2010 in Bangor.  Time: 14:00 – 16:30

Venue: The Environment Centre, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW

To book onto this workshop please email wales@envirowise.gov.uk For further information on this event, please contact Angela Boffy on 07718 186487 or e-mail angela.boffy@envirowise.gov.uk

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Enterprising Junk Competition

The Enterprising Junk Competition is a challenge presented to our local educational establishments, and asks young people to produce a product / gift/ or artefact which has been made from waste material. The challenge runs over two terms, from October 2010 to February 2011.

All competition entries are presented to a panel of ‘Dragons’ and the winners go forward to spend 3days work experience with local eco entrepreneur Max McMurdo to explore taking their prototype to possible profit.

Participants: For young people participating in this enterprising project develops creativity resourcefulness and exploration; their experiences will offer them something tangible to include on any further education applications or to draw examples from when having their first interviews.

Stage 1, October:~ Launch with local schools which involves a two hour workshop where young people think about the environment, green build techniques, enterprise, and the value of effort put in to create a product. The students produce something from waste to discover textures, build techniques (using the waste product to its strength) and then make a pitch as to why we should buy it. (This is a fun element to the project)

Stage 2, Oct – Dec:~ Students develop their idea, make their product, and in December pitch to a board of dragons made up from business, the winner is invited to attend a workshop in February to grow their product and assess how to take it to market.

Stage3: February. Winners attend a 3 day workshop where they receive one-one advice on how they can refine and develop their product with intention to take it to market.

For further details, please call Julie Drummond on 01480 387086.

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CARBON CYCLING: The Missing Link in the Carbon Debate?

A radical discussion at the APPCCG (All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group) Portcullis House Bridge Street, London, SW1A 2LW

This event is truly in the spirit of global entrepreneurship: It concerns a new, innovative option to kickstart the reversal of global desertification and restoration of the global carbon cycle – converting carbon emissions into threatened carbon-based resources, such as high-nutrient foods, ethical bio-fuels and biodegradable consumer/industrial materials.

Our keynote speaker is William E Matthews OBE, Vice President of the International Tree Foundation (Patron, HRH Prince Charles).

Guest speakers: Chris Hines, MBE, Founder Surfers Against Sewage and Director, A Grain of Sand Pano Kroko, Chair, Environmental Parliament and CEO Green Capital Inc.

The speakers and panel include top academics in top universities at the top of their fields, such as:

• Professor David Thomas, Head of School, Oxford University Centre for the Environment • Professor Eric P Achterberg, Professor of Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, University of Southampton • Professor Stephen Nortcliff, Professor of Soil Science, University of Reading • Professor Frank M. Chambers, Professor of Physical Geography – Climate History and Change, University of Gloucester, Sustainability Institute • Professor John Wainwright, Professor of Physical Geography (Links between hydrological, geomorphological and ecological processes), Sheffield University

There will be an opportunity to meet and network with a diverse group of politicians, academics, industry leaders, oil companies, foreign agencies, environmental groups, grant-making trusts, charities, youth representatives, general public and the media.

This is potentially a world-changing, historic event!