Video by Saptarshi Pal, from India ESE (Environment, Social and Economic) Business Model The Essay Competition 2009 invited youth to share ideas on: How does climate change affect you? How can you tackle climate change through youth-led solutions? More information at www.essaycompetition.org Non-biodegrable plastic bags have not spared villages too. Plastic bags are dumped for landfill, which fly into the nearby farms and pollute the soil To solve this problem, a young entrepreneur started a plastic waste recycling unit next to the dumping ground. The unit takes in plastic bags/bottles as inputs and recycles it into plastic granules. The plastic granules are utilized by various industries to make plastic products; it is similar to the virgin ones, produced by petrochemical companies, but a lot cheaper. This is what a sustainable business model should be like recycles plastic (environment), generates employment (social) and is profitable (economic) to run! The young entrepreneur who started this enterprise is a member of an association of young green entrepreneurs, who have similar enterprises. Through this alliance such young people network and assist each other. They also train budding green entrepreneurs, like me, to develop our ideas and provide financial back up. We want to inspire people to adopt low carbon business models to offset the pollution in developing countries!

Robert Klein began Safeguard Properties with one employee working in a basement. Today, SPI is the nations largest privately held mortgage field services company, inspecting and maintaining more than one million properties around the country. Since Safeguards founding in 1990, the mortgage industry has changed dramatically, which meant that regional Safeguard had to quickly evolve into a national model. Robert did this primarily through technology, for example, uploading images from field contractors for instant access by SPIs customers.

www.incomediary.com — Young Moguls Day Organizer for Underground Online Seminar — Michael Dunlop — introduces Syed Balkhi – one of the Young Entrepreneur Scholarship Winners. In this brief video Syed Balkhi explains his experience at Yanik Silver’s http One of Adams websites is: www.wpbeginner.com

Bruce Downey took over a troubled generic drug company and infused it with a high-risk approach: produce generic drugs with significant barriers to entry and investment needed. If it was off-patent, the raw materials were unavailable, or was unsalable for any number of reasons, Bruce pushed Barr Pharmaceuticals to pursue it. The results were a leadership position in a highly focused brand and generic market of cardiovascular, oncology and female health care products.

Ernest Rady has been an entrepreneur his entire life. After launching a real estate company in the late 1960s, in 1972 he founded Insurance Company of the West, a company specializing in underwriting select commercial insurance risks, mainly in California. Today, the company sells products in all 50 states. He says that in half a century of doing business, hes most proud of having served his customers well.

Ken Solinsky spent 15 years in the US Army learning about night vision, then took that expertise and founded Insight Technology to build and deliver higher quality, more cost-effective products for the military and police departments. Ken received his first government contract to make infrared aiming lights. Today, Insight Technology is a world leader in the production of night vision goggles, laser aiming rangefinders and thermal imaging systems used by soldiers on a daily basis.

As CEO of CHEP, a large international wood pallet and container pooling services company, Bob Moore saw trouble ahead as environmental pressure against using wood pallets was gathering momentum. Backed by private equity funding, Moore started iGPS. He saw that his true business opportunity lay in helping companies overhaul their supply chains by renting plastic pallets and integrating tracking technology.

Founding Spark Energy, Maxwell drew on knowledge gained from the de-bundling and deregulation of natural gas and applied them to power. Thinking of matters of sustainability, Maxwell feels people need to leave the earth better than they found it. His approach for the company is to find green initiatives that are commercially viable, ones that will drive the free market to go to the model.

Not long after joining Bayer through a corporate acquisition, Larry Stern, CEO of Talecris, started to think, “If I ever have a chance, I’d love to spin this business off and run it.” Years later, Stern launched the newly named Talecris as a stand-alone company. In five years, the company has grown into one of the leading plasma therapeutics companies in the world.

Paul Sagan of Akamai Technologies is this years recipient of the Ernst & Young Venture Capital Award for Excellence in the Technology category. The award recognizes an Entrepreneur of the Year regional winner whose company has received venture capital or private equity funding of $100 million or less. Judges consider the companys EBITDA margins, and its equity and revenue growth. Equally important is the entrepreneurs story. Paul is a visionary entrepreneur whose leadership skills have made Akamai a great success.