WHAT IS ECO-INNOVATE 03?

This once in a lifetime opportunity is for those who want to play a greater part in shaping our future - as a family, as a community, as a business, or even as a nation. The key to a sustainable future to ensure that the very processes and systems that comprise a society are sustainable. Eco-Innovate 03 is about sustainable ideas and an opportunity to learn about the ways we can develop them. It is a new and exciting forum that will switch young people to the ultimate sustainability challenge – turning ‘eco-innovations’ into viable applications. Answering the call from Government and the business community to inspire tomorrow’s leaders to think differently, the forum will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, from July 14 – 18, 2003.

THE PROGRAM

Eco-Innovate 03 will draw on key figures within the community to provide opportunities for learning and exchange. The program of the forum is based on the Eco-Innovate 03 key components: sustainability; eco-innovation, design, mentoring, eco-preneurship, leadership, worldviews and action.

ECO-INNOVATION

An innovation is the introduction of a new idea, that proposes a different approach. With effective design, we can develop this new idea so that it creates flexibility and opportunity in our current approach. In that sense, good design helps us to think outside the square when finding solutions. When we integrate sustainability principles into our ideas, our innovations become sustainable and produce positive outcomes for the environment. This kind of innovation is an ‘eco-innovation’. The challenge facing our leaders of tomorrow, is to look to eco-innovation as the way to address problems of resource inefficiency and convert them into opportunities for sustainable living.