Kwabena Adu-Darkwa
Kwabena Adu-Darkwa was a student at Ashesi University college majoring in Management Information System. Since childhood, he has been curious about sustainable environmental practices and sanitation. By reading and experimenting with ideas, this curiosity has over the years developed into something more than a passion. He co-founded HHESCO with the aim of helping his local […]
Happy Home Eco-Sanitation Company (HHESCO)
HHESCO is an enterprise that provides environmentally friendly, micro-flush toilets to low-income earners, landlords and community groups and supports them with a flexible payment system. The toilet also generates usable compost which can be sold for a new income stream. Recently, the venture built a seven-unit toilet facility for the Berekuso Basic Schools, which have […]
Justice Nyamadi
Justice Nyamadi is a MasterCard Foundation Scholar studying Business Administration at Ashesi University in Ghana. He is passionate and an enthusiast in issues concerning environmental climate and sustainability. He is currently the finance and project development executive of Ahote Sanitation Project; a social enterprise which seeks to champion plastic waste management and recycling in Berekuso. He […]
Rose Wang
Rose is the CEO/co-founder of Six Foods, a company that is normalizing insects as a more sustainable protein. Rose worked in strategy and marketing at Nutraclick and Microsoft. In college, Rose managed HSA Cleaners and The Harvard Shop through Harvard Student Agencies, managing an annual budget of $1.5M. She also has a passion for education […]
Six Foods
We use crickets milled into a flour to make tortilla chips (Chirps) that are familiar to Americans. We want to normalize insect foods, starting with snacks to meat. The goal is to substitute animal protein with insect protein, thus converting livestock farming to insect farming. By doing so, we will reduce land & water usage, […]
Aeo
In summer 2017, Xiaoyue Gong founded Aeo to safeguard the health of Chinese urban residents against ubiquitous particulate air pollution by raising awareness of invisible indoor air pollution and empowering people to take informed actions to protect themselves. Aeo wearable air quality sensors not only inform people of the air quality of their exact location […]
Xiaoyue Gong
Xiaoyue is a PhD Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and CEO of Aeo, a social venture that protects people from severe indoor air pollution in cities through smart IoT design. Her current research is in algorithms and machine learning for supply chain optimization. Since a very young age, Xiaoyue has been working […]
MiaMira
“Aaron” Tsz Ki Lit is the founder of MiaMira in Hong Kong. MiaMira is a fashion brand that celebrates the beauty and diversity of life underwater through garments and accessories inspired the patterns, shapes, and colors of marine animals. Using sustainable eco-fabric for the apparel raises awareness of marine biodiversity and conservation issues, while a […]
Aaron Tsz Ki Lit
Aaron Lit is an avid scuba diver and underwater photographer who aims to raise awareness of marine biodiversity and motivate conservation through social entrepreneurship. He is the author and photographer of “Watercolor”, a book featuring the creatures of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Through his social venture MiaMira, he wishes to use fashion made from ecofabric as […]
The Rainmaker Enterprise
James Thuch Madhier, from South Sudan, is the founder of The Rainmaker Enterprise. Using a solar powered pump and well, James will build a farm with micro drip irrigation to grow livestock feed and collect water. These will then be sold to family farmers in the northwestern city of Wau at modest prices to help […]
