Hub lunches’ are an informal way of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. The Hub Brussels organizes once a week a gathering over lunch to share knowledge and experiences about a topic of common interest. This time, Caroline Zeller (one of the Hub Brussels hosts), in collaboration with Otman from Generation Palestine, will hold the first Hub Lunch in The Hub Brussels. Caroline will present a 10min movie about her recent trip to Palestine about usingart to connect people and Otman will share some stories about his work with Generation Palestine. We will continue with an informal conversation. Please sign up here.
A new handbook was released recently called Social By SocialSocial by Social is a practical guide to using new technologies to create social impact. It makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. Whoever you are, it shows you how to take technology and turn it into real world benefits.
Congratulations to all involved, we think it’s a great and useful resource.
On the 25th of june we celebrated THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS evening at The Hub Brussels. 3 members of the Hub Brussels presented their projects and we organized a member case study for each of them. They got many good ideas for developping their projects from the participants!! They are Filip van Mullem (hubu), Armand Bogaarts (open minds) and Alexia Willems (upnow). Check out their member profiles on our website www.the-hub.be, in the “members” section.
Afterwards, we opened a networking session. We enjoyed meeting new social entrepreneurs, the food and the drinks!!!
Researchers and social activists are beginning to discover the power of networks and networking. And there is a growing recognition that networks are the new form of organizing.
Networks create the conditions for emergence, which is how Life changes. Because networks are the first stage in emergence, it is essential that we understand their dynamics and how they develop into communities and then systems.
The Hub Brussels is also in Twitter. You can follow our tweets in the following Twitter account: ” hubbrussels”
Twitter is a social media tool that make something go “viral”? It is useful for getting to know people of your same interests, for building relationships, for sharing information and links online. We also want to share information with you!!
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems.
As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
“Belgian Positive entrepreneurs” and “The Hub Brussels” aims at collecting data about the Belgian societal entrepreneurs as well as promoting them. We are looking for the most innovative social and for these reasons will be identifying the most advanced social, environmental and societal initiatices in the SMEs, associations, coops…
Contact us in contact@the-hub.be if you are a social entrepreneur
This time is different. Protecting the environment is now at the center of government and business efforts to promote economic growth. This goes well beyond the $94 billion in short term investment that the US government has targeted for green jobs and environmental innovation, or the $2.6 billion that the Canadians are spending along the same lines or even the more than $200 billion the Chinese government will spend.
This time, more businesses are taking a leadership role in calling for new and long needed measures to protect the environment.
This time, we’ve also learned an important lesson. Improving our environment and our health is good business.
Biomodd is an interactive and collaborative art project that integrates nature and technology. The aim of the project is to create an art installation in which different forms of plant life coexist with a fully functioning computer system. This system is built almost entirely from recycled computers, and plant growth is stimulated by the excess heat of the working electronics. Visitors can interact with this art installation by playing a multiplayer computer game that runs on this hybrid system.Conceived by Belgian artist Angelo Vermeulen and first developed in the USA, the idea is now being expanded and relaunched in the Philippines.
Massive change is sweeping through the business world. Corporate Social Responsibility is precipitating thousands of new Employer-Sponsored Volunteer Programs. But can non-profit organizations handle the huge increase of volunteers coming their way? Maybe not. If non-profits do not reinvent their current volunteer management model, they threaten to suffocate these brilliant new efforts and disenfranchise the volunteers who come through their programs.
Non-profits and community organizations are due for a change: they must understand that volunteers are the key to achieving their mission. Unfortunately, this new understanding will require NPO’s to demote their entire staff.
Professor David Batstone offers ten Principles for entrepreneurial ethics.
Are you a real social entrepreneur?
1. Company directors and management will consider their work force valuable team members, not merely hired labor.
2. A company will think of itself as a part of a community, not just a “market.”
3. A company will take every possible care to ensure the quality and safety of the products it brings to the public.
4. A company will treat the environment as a silent “stakeholder,” a party to which it is wholly accountable.
5. A company will strive to diversify the kind of people who lead and manage its affairs.
6. A company will pursue international trade and production based on reciprocal exchanges that respect the same rights accorded its own people.
7. A company will nurture an organizational culture that encourages its employees to give critical feedback on unethical practices, and even “blow the whistle” when their voices are ignored.
8. A company will protect the privacy rights of its suppliers, customers, and employees.
9. A company will deliver what it promises, and promise what it can deliver.
10. A company will not seek to generate any revenue from practices that threaten life.
The Bombay Hub launch is only a week away and we wanted to share our invitation with you all. It is going to be an evening full of games, speeches and music!! See the invitation below
Invitation Hub Sustainability Twitter Dialogue
Dear Hub members around the world,
The Hub Berlin invites you to an online dialogue on sustainability next Wednesday on the June 24:
16:00 – 17:00 CET, Twitter Session on Sustainability @HUBBerlin
They will connect around sustainability to some of their almost 1000 followers. HUB Berlin will be hosting the first twitter session ever. Start following @HUBBerlin and get ready for the experience. You can follow all contributions via #sw09
The European Commission has launched the “Your World, Your Business” campaign to encourage young people in schools to debate the role of enterprises in helping society and protecting the environment. At a time when economic models are questioned, the campaign, based on a film in which young entrepreneurs show how their firms are helping society, seeks to inspire young people to set up responsible businesses themselves.
À Charlotte en Caroline du Nord, deuxième centre financier des États-Unis siège des deux plus grandes banques américaines Bank of America et Wachovia, le troc est de retour. Un troc à grande échelle.
Des sociétés spécialisées qui ressemblent à des banques se sont créées. Elles servent d’intermédiaires entre, par exemple, des traders désargentés et des restaurateurs en mal de clientèle pour échanger compétences informatiques des uns et bons repas des autres. Et tout cela sans que le moindre dollar ne circule.
Partout dans le monde, le troc refait surface mais pas seulement le troc.
De nouvelles monnaies se développent ou apparaissent, au Brésil, au Japon, en Suisse, en Allemagne, partout. On les appelle monnaies régionales, locales, complémentaires, alternatives ou libres. La crise financière leur redonne des couleurs. Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à utiliser leur propre monnaie en marge des monnaies officielles, à l’échelle, d’une ville, d’un quartier, d’une communauté, et même d’un État pour continuer à vivre normalement.
The Hub has developed a partnership with Positive-Economy, in the framework of their conference-debate on “How to build a positive economy”. The event will demonstrate how businesses can be run, while integrating social and environmental values into their core processes.
During the first part of the event, participants will hear testimonials from European entrepreneurs, followed by a debate on the building of a positive economy. After a networking lunch, workshop sessions will take place with practical case studies, such as corporate values sustainable reporting, industrial synergies, social economy model and global ecological process.
We would like to invite you to participate to this symposium. See the program here
Sustainable initatives can be really inspiring and interesting. It gets even more exciting when they are being discussed, replicated, improved, developed … and are shared around Brussels and the globe.
Ideaplants is a place for you to promote your projects and find out about other sustainable initatives.
You are welcome to share your ideas, exchange views and contribute at the Ideaplants Meeting Point. Members range from entrepreneurs, creatives and project managers to volunteers and high level consultants. This is an open space for you to promote your initiatives & the membership is free and there’s agroup specially for hub members & supporters.
ches’ are an informal way of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. The Hub Brussels organizes once a week a gathering over lunch to share knowledge and experiences about a topic of common interest. This time, Caroline Zeller (one of the Hub Brussels hosts), in collaboration with Otman from Generation Palestine, will hold the first Hub Lunch in The Hub Brussels. Caroline will present a 10min movie about her recent trip to Palestine about using art to connect people and Otman will share some stories about his work with Generation Palestine. We will continue with an informal conversation. Please sign up here.
Researchers and social activists are beginning to discover the power of networks and networking. And there is a growing recognition that networks are the new form of organizing.
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