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Eureka Exchange

Archimedes said “Eureka!”, which roughly translates as “I have found it”. This is our “find it” page. Find opportunity. Stimulate innovative thinking. Connect to someone with a great idea.

To address the problems people face today while ensuring a quality of life for tomorrow, we need to work together to solve them. That’s actually what competition is all about, ‘striving together”. (Bet you did not know that.)

The Eureka Exchange is a virtual innovation centre geared to helping small business do better with less©. The launch will bring leading edge thinkers in green technologies, products and services, and entrepreneurs with practical, commercial and pre-commercial innovations together with mainstream small and medium-sized businesses.

The Eureka Exchange is intended to help in three distinct ways, it will:

ʘ excite people into thinking about how to do better with less©, to generate new ideas

ʘ accelerate the innovation of green products, services, etc to green economic growth

ʘ share existing green technology, whether its four doors away or from around the world

Why do this?

Innovation is a primary engine of economic growth; we need to green economic growth. Most small businesses believe they can grow the economy and protect the environment at the same time. We’ve seen a lot of the tools designed for bigger businesses. Our goal is to help small business owners, managers and employees connect with real solutions that are practical along with the big picture of how each act of green does make a difference. While money is not usually the primary motivator for going green, it’s still a factor. So we focus on tools and approaches that can help small business save money, get money or make money and reduce their Footprint on the environment.

Do you want your company to be involved? Do you want to be known as being part of the solution? Become a member. Are you an innovator of something that will help small business green their productivity? Are you a bigger company and want to be known as a Product Partner? Get in touch with us!

Some Great Ideas to Start With

Ideas are everywhere...

You missed the launch! You can still see the speakers share their insights. We’ll let you know when the broadcast doors re-open. Our host, Bob McDonald, CBC’s outstanding host of Quirks and Quarks, the audience to some exciting and eclectic speakers. Participants got to rub shoulders with innovators and leading edge thinkers in green technologies.

The launch of the Eureka Exchange included four opportunities, you could have:

ʘ Been part of the audience in a beautifully renovated Opera House; attendees told us we achieved the vibe that will bring them back.

ʘ Been part of the on line audience through High Definition online TV – personal theatre at its best enabled by XOOL.tv. XOOL’s technology means you get access to high end learning without incurring a big cost or a huge carbon footprint.

ʘ Met like-minded people who want to green their business and are interested in working with people with the same interests

ʘ Attended an Eco-fair and have had a touch and feel experience of some really neat green products and services, such as:

A food digester,
A harmonic water treatment process,
A builder of biological buildings designed for people’s wellbeing,
Access to your own green electrical energy production options
Solar hot water and geothermal heating options for the workplace and home offices
Smart driving tips to save gas, money and your carbon footprint
A hotdog named as “Canada’s best” by Readers Digest in 2007, and more!

The Eureka Exchange is now open, and is the place to meet small business owners who have adopted a green technology that may offer you benefit. You can listen to experts on how to better manage your business, to save money, get money or make money. AND reduce your footprint.

Find your Eureka idea that will help you green your business.

It could be just around the corner, or from another country. Whether you are in Oakland, California; Mumbai, India; Kelowna, Canada; Devizes, the U.K.; Monterrey, Mexico; Jakarta, Indonesia; you can be connected through goingforthegreen.net! Join today.