The Audacious Student Business Challenge has expanded this year to encourage business for good with a social enterprise category. It has also moved to encourage wider participation with a new crowd-sourcing platform Skulksource. You can encourage the development of sustainable start-ups by voting for the fledgling businesses such as:
- Spread the Help: Spread your donation across multiple charities, and Spread your Help to your community, by giving.
- Resource Locus: Resource Locus proposes to foster farmers’ market culture by providing an online meeting place.
- Flowbot: An innovative, reusable drink bottle to help fight obesity in kids through interactive design.
- Ecoplug: EcoPlug is a simple way of bringing homes and offices into the 21st century
- Dunedin Street Bikes: Using on-street fleets of bikes to improve social mobility, the environmental image of Dunedin & its economic development
- Fur Retreival: Ethical Possum eradication to ensure the sustainability of the eco-system through natural methods
- Humblebee: Taking the toxic out of protective textiles and staying dry in a deluge using nature’s ancient tech
- Farmscape: An educational game that teaches people about sustainable agriculture. #farmerfromwayback
- Eureka Energy: Eureka energy provides small energy solution to create a more sustainible future
- Fixing Faults: Fixing Faults gives you the space, skills and resources to turn your boring junk into funk!
- HandiConnect: HandiConnect – Connect handicaps to the world and help them live a life with no difference.
Computing for Sustainability 
Posted on August 30, 2013
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