European Green Capital 2019

Recap: EGC War on Plastic vol. II

April 15. 2019 European Green Capital 2019, News

Last Wednesday, April 10th, there was a full house at MESH to discuss how to move from seeing plastic as waste and instead treat it as a valuable resource within circular business opportunities! Ultimately, the audience learned key insights into how through power coupling, innovation can be cultivated & solutions can be discovered. State Secretary […]

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Green Stories: Charlotte Aschim (TotalCtrl)

April 15. 2019 European Green Capital 2019, News

Charlotte Aschim is the CEO & Founder of TotalCtrl, a top global digital retail innovation company that helps grocery retailers optimize their operations, cut costs and reduce food waste. Since late 2017, Charlotte has managed to get TotalCtrl top rankings alongside Amazon and Walmart as one of Europe’s most inspiring food waste changemakers. Her contributions […]

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Green Stories: Susanne Gløersen (SustainableInsight)

April 9. 2019 European Green Capital 2019, News

Last year, Susanne Gløersen founded her own sustainability consultancy, SustainableInsight, to fuel sustainable transformation. Our EGC Ambassador of the week is a pioneer of sustainability, a tought leader and a bit of a rebel – who understood early on that she should be in the finance sector in order to nudge transformation. “Money talks,” explained […]

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Green Startup Stories: meet Antler

April 5. 2019 European Green Capital 2019, News

The year of European Green Capital is an opportunity to bring the corporate players closer to green solutions and discuss the role of HUBS & startups in Oslo’s business ecosystem. Let’s start with Antler, a startup generator and early-stage VC that turns the world’s top talent into great founders of great companies. For EGC program, […]

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Green Stories: Haakon Brunell (Katapult)

April 4. 2019 European Green Capital 2019

From Consultant to CEO – For nearly a decade, Haakon Brunell was a consultant at the international management consulting firm McKinsey. But just a little over two years ago he made the bold move to start leading the world’s first global for-profit accelerator, Katapult. His shift to impact-investing was in large part due to the growing […]

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Green Stories: Torbjørn Johannson (ASKO)

March 29. 2019 European Green Capital 2019

Five generations have built what has become Norway’s 7th largest corporation, NorgesGruppen. Over the past few years, the company has invested in green technologies one could only assume would pay off in the long-run, such as solar panels, renewable fuels and low-emission buildings. “In my view, we have not inherited this world from our ancestors. We […]

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