The Color Green
We sincerely believe that most of us wish to live in a Green World. However to keep it green, lush, alive and kicking we've simply got to come together and find ways to work together in a more efficient manner.
At The Northern Rose we would like to contribute towards making our region more green.
With this blog post we are now officially kick-starting by founding and supporting the Northern Green community. We’ve initially set up on-line camps on Facebook Community Pages for all fans and on the Ning community platform for members of Northern who actively wishes to contribute towards our shared vision and efforts. The northern region of Thailand, of which large parts historically are known as the Lanna Region, host many talented and determined entrepreneurs. To become a sustainable and a social caring entrepreneur is a truly challenging task in the current competitive economical climate. However the awareness among entrepreneurs and consumers are growing which is an inspirational sign. This is certainly a main motivator that engages us in spreading some green vibes, inspire people to do more green deeds and showcasing entrepreneurial sources of inspiration that we come across. Here are some inspirational green entrepreneurs that we’ve met so far (list developing):
> Mark Emery - Bamboo Consultant
We hereby cordially invite everyone that wish to participate in our efforts by joining Northern Green. Welcome :)
Background story - Getting started
Recently my fellow co-founder of TNR, Per Sundberg and i got in to a discussion about how these examples and inspirational sources could be shared. We where also looking for local communities in our area that pulled together innovative entrepreneurs and progressive thinkers. In our research we found some highly inspirational small entrepreneurs and communities in Chiang Mai. However the biggest dilemma was that it was difficult to find common ground or spanning community to share experiences, best practises and coach each other to develop ones business or enterprise. So we thought such an idea cannot just be left behind. We immediately started brainstorming how we could participate toward creating such a community. We thought to ourselves that we ought to contribute back to the society in which we live our daily lives in a more active way. This would surely not only inspire our own lives, making it more meaningful, but also it could have the potential to inspire others with similar thoughts and ideas. A few days later, i had lunch with Olivier Laurent, one of the co-founders of Onyx Design.
Olivier shared almost exactly the same thoughts as us, so we instantly decided that it would be a great idea to get together over lunch. Could we possibly find some common ground on how to set up some kind of bridge spanning community that could be a resource of sustainable and social development for entrepreneurs in our region? During our brainstorming session Per popped the name Northern Green by chance. We all thought it was a brilliant name for a community supporting sustainable and social entrepreneurship here in the northern region of Thailand.
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