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simplicity  -  relocalization  -  food security  -  social solidarity  -  resilience building


Youth Entrepreneurship

Applying Innovative Thinking to Business Opportunities

This section is dedicated to youth with a strong environmental conscience who wish to engage in entrepreneuship with a green twist.  The suggestions provided herein require your business plan development and research but are presented to encourage your individual thoughts...

Dream a bit-be innovative! Did you know that Industry Canada has several programs available to assist young entrepreneurs?  Check out their Community Access Program (CAP), Student Connections, University Recruitment, and the Youth Internship Program (FEDNOR) at http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ic1.nsf/en/h_00172e.html

Also, if you are looking for ways to get a summer job, get an internship, know what will be needed in the future, find work with the Ministry of Natural Resources or the Ontario Public Services, or start a business, there is a one stop shop calledYouth Opportunities Ontario
RED WIGGLER WORM FARMER
Prerequisite:
Strong environmental interest,Live close to farm country of have access to volume of compostable materials.
Action:
Develop red wiggler farm supplying nature's perfect soil and plant food and sale of red worms to home composters (and fishermen-great for whitefish and bass)
Reyouzd.com will mentor interested persons with past experience as worm farmer.

REFASHION DESIGNER
Prerequisite:  Keen eye for fashion, sewing perfectionist,strong environmental interest
Action: Seek out a clothing eco-retailer and discuss the potential of partnering with them to create a personalized label and guaranteed outlet for one-of-a-kind fashions from reclaimed clothing.


HORTICULTURAL REPURPOSER
Prerequisite: Strong artistic design abilities, strong horticultural interests, innovative, love to work with hands
Action: Develop a line of one-of-a-kind garden planters and accessories from reclaimed materials.  Seek out a garden centre who might be interested in unique garden art to present your work.



ALTERNATIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT BUILDER
Prerequisite: strong musical interest, strong technical abilities, great musical ear, innovative
Action: Create alternative instruments from reclaimed materials with a high level of pitch and finish and accuracy to make them saleable.  See what we mean in the Eco Info section of the site.

DISTANCE EDUCATION-
Sustaining Communities by reducing 'brain drain'.  Ontario's Colleges and Universities have thousands of courses and programs available online. Check out www.elearnnetwork.ca.  Their website supports a search engine where you can find courses to suit what appears to be just about anyone's interests.

And headlines from The Chronicle of Education reporting
"Bill Gates Predicts Technology  Will Make ‘Place-Based’ Colleges Less Important in 5 Years" is pretty stunning...Perhaps he is referring to
www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses,
a site providing access to free courses from Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT, UCLA, UCSF, Columbia, UC Berkley and more.   

Where students today are facing more than 12 careers in a lifetime (Trent University orientation August 2006), continual, lifelong learning is not an option, it must be an OBSESSION.
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