Founders:
Some engaged people in Vienna/Austria
What they do:
They create and produce elegant and high-end jewellery, furniture and accessories. All products are mainly made of recycled parts from used electronics by long-term unemployed people. Each piece is fully hand-made and hence unique.
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Founder:
Sepp Eisenriegler
What they do:
We create jobs for unemployed people and train them to be excellent technicians. We repair electronics which nowadays very often are produced with a limited life span in order to make people buy new ones. By repairing them we reduce waste and use resources ecologically worthwhile.
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Founders:
not known
What they do:
Lenzing Papier offer their customers products to support the efforts in reducing their environmental impact. Lenzing Papier’s processes cause significantly lower emissions into the environment than most other paper products. Used office paper is recycled completely without producing any waste and bascially carbon neutral.
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Founders:
Some cool and engaged Facebook users from Austria. Note: Mimimaka means “I Like” in Suaheli.
What they do:
Mimimaka closes the information gap and serves to meet the growing information and security needs of the Facebook Community by revealing Facebook fakes and hoaxes and by sharing the results on the web in detail.
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Founders:
Annemarie Harant and Bettina Steinbrugger
What they do:
The name Erdbeerwoche (strawberry week) is a synonym for the female menstruation. The vision of erdbeerwoche is to make sustainable feminine hygiene “mainstream”. This means to inform consumers about sustainable hygiene products and to convince them of the benefits as well as to support and to boost the availability and the sale of these products.
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Initiator:
Christian Felber
What they do:
The “Economy of the Common Good” comprises the core elements of an alternative economic order and at the same time is open for cooperation and synergies with other alternatives. Our goal is to establish a legally binding framework, in which values oriented towards the common good can prosper.
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Publisher:
Stefan Oberhuber
What they do:
ZUFALL (German for co-incidence or chance) magazine is the first business magazin with a heart. Founded in Austria, the team has created numerous issues and just started to distribute the magazine through selected shops (in addition to subscriptions). They cover topics like relationships, health, business, spirituality and financial issues. (Popular) authors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland bring it all together.
Their vision:
Building a bridge between spirituality and business.
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Founders:
Many engaged people in Austria
What they do:
They would like to build an alternative bank – a bank that concentrates on its core business and at the same time supports the community.
They have founded an association where people can become a member and support the project. The association is currently preparing everything to found the bank.
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