Top fives (experimental and exploring) - from the
Café Host;
1.
A Collaboration Café is a mash-up in between a
"world café" and
"open space"...
2.
Virtual means that it is a counterpart to something in Real Life, metaphorically going on in some kind of
"Second Life" - in this imagine the atmosphere of your favourite Café, here...
3.
Stakeholder here means those who have an interest of a phenomenon and its advancement, proliferation and/or evolvement - or demands something from something)
4.
Supports means being at service for fruitful peer to peer interaction in between the stakeholders in the Café
5.
Sustainopreneurship is the topic of this vcc - virtual collaboration café - and the phenomenon in focus.
In short - an open, deeply participative, laid-back-athmospehered environment for all who want to see the proliferation, advancement and spread of sustainopreneurship - entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability - Business with a Cause!
Everyone has a story to tell. What´s yours?
Use the short survey that is used to create your profile creatively to tell it (the only entry demand upon joining)!
It includes e. g. what you HAVE and what you WANT! This makes it easy to find your way at the café - and find the right table.
Start out with Virtual Intro/Handshake Forum Thread!
Next step, beyond that - if momentum and energy is gained around your Virtual Intro and shouting out your needs and current status of your project and involvements, and it transforms to something that a smaller group of people gets committed to (at least you, and two more?) - engage in a smaller workshop thread at one of the
APPROPRIATE GROUPS.
Main stakeholders identified of sustainopreneurship at this stage is
Practitioners, Researchers and
Educators - all of these have dedicated groups (and also the three target group for the What kind of sustainopreneurial project are you involved in? Gain and gather resources and support here! For the open brainstorming - there is always the group called
Open Space!
Constituting ÆREAS - Organizing Sustainopreneurship Research
Future plans for the community is to be maintained by the
future association ÆREAS - currently in interim stage). Activities and what emerges from the community in the form of deeper insight and strong experiences will be used for formal research about sustainopreneurship (with your consent). For those who want to contribute to its formation and institutionalization - see
http://interim.aereas.nu and
http://www.ki-work.com/ki-project/aereas who are there to attract the resources to create the association, targeted at constituting with 150 members in third quarter, 2009, in a planned Summit on Sustianopreneurship.
ÆREAS(i) - also a goodwill PR vehichle for your initiative!
Members of ÆREAS(i) gets
Featured (extra presence) here on Sustainopreneur's Café, as well as listed in the
membership directory over at the interim association website and over at the group at Facebook,
Sustainopreneur's Square. Upon joining, a
dedicated blog post also gets your story told to the world!

Your café host at your service! What can I help you with? Join the Community and Café, and then introduce yourself and stake your needs over at your Virtual Intro!
What's Your Dream?
Peace,
Anders
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RE:LOVE THE WORLD |
Anders Abrahamsson
Sustainopreneurial Facilitator, Café Host and Square Keeper
Essential links:
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The Definition with History and Background:
http://www.sustainopreneurship.info
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The Master Thesis: Found through
Google Scholar Search with six hits so far in total, some Germans and me, with link to the Swedish Digital Scientific Archive DiVA
"Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause. Conceptualizing Entrepreneurship for Sustainability"
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The Blog: I have been running a blog since 2004,
"Notes from a Sustainopreneur | on Sustainability Entrepreneurship", since years featured on Top Ten search on "sustainability entrepreneurship" on Google.
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The Library: Some publications have piled up over the years, available at this
Scribd Group - "Sustainopreneurship Research" in full text and download.
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The Virtual Locality: This café is imagined and situated at a virtual Square in a town called
Sustainoville. The Central Square in this imagined town is currently placed and reflected at Facebook (subject to change if environment evolves to be unfruitful) -
"Sustainopreneur's Square".