SUB 6530 - Ecopreneurship

(3 units)

Ecopreneurs are individuals or groups who imagine new green business opportunities and then take on the risks required to convert these ideas into reality. Ecopreneurship develops when enterprising individuals and groups identify and solve critical problems and meet unmet needs in ways that improve the profitability and sustainability of operations, institutions, and products. Ideally ecopreneurship will meet triple bottom line of providing profits, while improving people’s health and restoring the environment. Ecopreneurship is the task of meeting human needs in ways that provide satisfaction, comfort, joy, and health without diminishing the options or richness for future generations.
(San Diego)