2. • Online Crowdsourcing Platform - www.ecoapprentice.com
• EcoChallenge: Sustainability issue that needs to be
creatively addressed or reassessed
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EcoBounty: Cash incentive awarded for best EcoSolution
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Student Benefits:
EcoSolution: Creative sustainable solution that solves issue
and makes or saves challenger money
• Experiential learning – looks great on a resume!
• Earn academic credit – make professional connections
• Can help create jobs, products, or new businesses using
EcoBounty as start-up seed money

3. Crowdsourcing Sustainability Questions
EcoChallenge
Businesses
Students
Solution Seeker
Solution Providers
Government Organizations
Businesses Organizations
EcoSolution

5. EcoChallenge
EcoSolution
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Airport Furniture
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Hydroponic Channel
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Garden Edging
✓Fixed Handrails

6. EcoChallenge
EcoSolution
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Partnership with PSU
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Students examined business practices
and procedures
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Students created evaluation tools
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Students submitted recommendations
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Students developed marketing plan
✓ STI Certification awarded
✓ Students received academic credit for
capstone

7. EcoChallenge
EcoSolution
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Urban Wood in PDX contains pieces of
houses, scraps, paint, shellac, etc.
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60,000 tons a year of debris passes
through
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Currently chipped and sold as “hog fuel”
to paper mills. Biomass has multiple uses
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Looking for alternative good for profit &
planet
➡ $27,000 EcoBounty awarded to
solution finders!

8. EcoChallenges
Become a member to share solution
ideas or make comments!

9. EcoSolutions
Win the EcoBounty!

10. PCC Students – Next Steps
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Become an EcoApprentice member (it’s free) to be notified of new
EcoChallenges. Go to: www.ecoapprentice.com
Talk to an Instructor about getting academic or class project credit by finding or
engaging an EcoChallenge
Tip us to an organization with an Eco Challenge... Get 1% of the EcoBounty!
To increase the power of the student crowd…thanks for liking us on Facebook
and/or sharing with friends and using social media. Twitter @ecoapprentice
Have a great idea on how we can work together? richard@ecoapprentice.com