The document introduces the concept of sustainopreneurship, which combines entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability. It discusses some of the challenges sustainopreneurs face in financing, promoting, and finding the right people for their ventures. It advocates leveraging creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and social media. Specifically, it suggests sustainopreneurs make meaning, conversations, identity, money, and change through virtual space, physical place, mental craze, spiritual blaze, and social amazement. The overall message is that sustainopreneurs can build communities for a better world through dialogue, relationships, and action.

1. Sustainopreneurship
Business with a Cause
Getting Leverage for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
for Sustainability
Anders Abrahamsson
SLICE Services and Publishing
blog.slice.nu • @sliceonline

2. Today - at JCI ECM2010
… sharing a background story
… providing a context
… introducing the concept
… getting leverage!

9. http://twitter.com/#search
?q=#causebizbook

10. The Sustainability
Challenge
- and its traditional
responses

11. BASE OF THE PYRAMID
Four billion people 'live' below $4 a day

12. CLIMATE CHANGE

13. NATURE OF PROBLEMS

14. DEMAND FOR SOLUTIONS

15. POLITICS
ACA-
NGO's
DEMIA
CORPORATES

16. BACK TO BASICS

17. BACK TO BASICS

18. BACK TO BASICS

19. BUSINESS AND
SUSTAINABILITY 1.0 > 2.0?

20. THE ENTREPRENEUR

21. LONG TERM VISION

22. EVOLUTION OF THE E-WORD
entrepreneur >
social entrepreneur >
ecopreneur >
sustainability entrepreneur >
sustainopreneur

23. Sustainopreneurship
– Business with a Cause
Entrepreneurship for
Innovation and
Sustainability

24. http://en.wikipedia.org/
/wiki/Sustainopreneurship

26. SUSTAINOPRENEURSHIP
… deployment of sustainability
innovations
… short for sustainability
entrepreneurship
And furtherly defined by...

27. THREE DIMENSIONS
1 – purpose > sustainability
2 – process > creative organizing
3 – process > respecting the needs
of current and future stakeholders
(life support systems)

32. Getting leverage –
empowering the
sustainopreneurial
movement

33. MAIN PROBLEMS FOR
SUSTAINOPRENEURS
- financing – 'Get the bucks'
- promotion – 'Get the word out'
- finding people with the right
mindset – 'Get the right people'

34. ...let's find some key parts of
the whole to get beyond...
- CREATIVITY
- INNOVATION
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- SUSTAINABILITY
- SOCIAL WEB

35. CREATIVITY
- Get Into the Flow!
'Idea creativity' vs Do CreaCtivity

36. INNOVATION
- Innovations have always been
'Hard' vs 'Soft' innovations

37. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Discover your way by doing!
Business Model Innovation

38. http://businessmodelgeneration.com

52. SUSTAINABILITY
- Be the change you want to see!
Sustain Yourself and Your Peers

53. SUSTAINABILITY
- Dream
- Imagine
- Explore
- Visualize
- Set goals
...then...

54. SUSTAINABILITY
- Patience
- Endurance
- Joy
...road to
success!

55. THE SOCIAL WEB

56. THE SOCIAL WEB

57. THE SOCIAL WEB

58. THE SOCIAL WEB

59. THE SOCIAL WEB

60. THE SOCIAL WEB

61. THE SOCIAL WEB

62. THE SOCIAL WEB

63. THE SOCIAL WEB

64. THE SOCIAL WEB

65. THE SOCIAL WEB

66. THE SUSTAINABILITY WEB

67. … getting leverage
MAKE MEANING
MAKE CONVERSATIONS
MAKE IDENTITY
MAKE MONEY
MAKE CHANGE

68. … getting leverage
SPACE - virtual
PLACE - physical
CRAZE - mental
BLAZE - spiritual
AMAZE - social

69. … getting leverage
From financing to resourcing
From promoting to conversing
From structure to flow
Be human – Be yourself!

70. @sliceonline -
http://twitter.com/sliceonline

71. #WorkWhereYouWant
#WorkWhenYouWant

73. AI – harmony
KI – life energy
DO – the way

74. A Thousand Mile Journey Begins with One Step
/Lao Tse
RE:LOVE THE WORLD
- a world where you meet your fellow human
being with Love and Respect – and you can
expect to be met with the same

75. Building communities for a better world
– one dialogue, relation and action at a time
SUSTAINOPRENEURIAL
LECUTURING
INSPIRATION
CONSULTANCY and
EVENTS

76. Thank you
for your attention!
Anders Abrahamsson
SLICE Services and Publishing
blog.slice.nu • @sliceonline
anders@slice.nu