Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Action

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A 3-D Printed Hybrid Electric/Gas Car that can drive across the U.S on 10 gallons of gas? Talk about impossible.

Yet this is exactly what entrepreneurs Cody and Tyler Kor have created: A three-wheeled, aerodynamic car that needs just 10 gallons for a 44 hour, 2,900-mile journey from New York to San Francisco and back. If this wasn’t enough, the local 3-D printing process ensures that the vehicle is relatively affordable ($16,000-$50,000 depending on output), safe (meets or exceeds road-worthy safety standards) and minimally impactful on the environment.¹

As one of the chief engineers for the project, Kor affirmed that “designing for sustainability can arguably be humanity’s biggest and most important challenge of the coming century”, adding, “it’s something we absolutely need to get right.”1

In an age of stiff commercial competition, the notion of social entrepreneurship and responsibility remains an important topic that is rarely addressed. Social entrepreneurs such as the Kor brothers act as catalysts for change; they develop innovative solutions to social and environmental problems, resulting in wide-scale change. Similarly, companies such as Kor Ecologic continue to prove that corporate success can be achieved while pursuing suitable solutions to social and environmental problems. Nevertheless, in the end, it is imperative that business schools and companies alike continue to address this issue to build a stronger and more responsible generation of entrepreneurs and businessmen.

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1 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229882