Carolina Karlstrom is the founder and director of Jade Advisory Ltd., a small sustainability consultancy creating space for change in organisations and communities, through strategic interventions and people engagement. Carolina’s broad knowledge of sustainability is the result of 20+ years of experience in the sustainable energy sector and in leading strategic and professional sustainability roles. Carolina is an Associate of Ecoed Life, the first environmental education and behavioural change initiative that is fun and interactive and uses practical methodologies (such as Ecoed game app) to bring about a more sustainable way of living.
She also runs the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) network in London; raising awareness, connecting people and inspiring to action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. As if one MSc is not enough, Carolina has completed two; in Engineering and Sustainability & responsibility. She is the mother of two great children and she loves walking in nature, in fact her MSc thesis was all about walking!
Approximately 25 changemakers joined us for the evening to hear from and have the possibility to ask questions of Dan Raven-Ellison, guerrilla geographer, explorer and founder of London National Park City Campaign; Agamemnon Otero, founder of Energy Garden and CEO of Repowering; and Larissa Lockwood, Head of Air Quality at Global Action Plan, who led UK’s biggest air quality campaign, Clean Air Day, earlier this summer. The event was an opportunity to discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals can support and make grassroots projects and campaigns successful.
Our eighth SDG Network MeetUp, hosted by Global Action Plan, was an inspirational and engaging gathering with helpful advice and interesting Q&A around the theme of starting a social enterprise, as social female entrepreneurs Kathy Wong (Moeloco and Crazy Dreamers TV show), Sophie Andre (Elysia Catering), Steffie (Karma) and Abena Poku-Awuah (Muon Events) took to the stage to share their stories and the oh so important “why” to what they are doing to make a difference.
How do you make a drunk bloke not to throw a cigarette butt on the ground? What does buying a too big a bra have to do with purchasing food? And how do you go to the toilet when you are rowing across the Atlantic in one of the most challenging rowing races in the world? The route to taking sustainable action is not always so obvious.
On the hottest day of the year (so far), 19th April, 26 curious individuals met up at the Leon Restaurant near Oxford Circus, London. We represented various organisations, institutions or joined purely out of a personal interest to learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to meet, connect and discuss with likeminded people and to get inspired to do action for a more sustainable London. Carolina Karlstrom shares the discussion with us.
Ecoed, an app to help raise awareness around social and environmental issues, was granted a Social Impact award from the Techies SW via our partners and app developers ojo solutions. The Social Impact Award seeks to reward “a product or service driven by technology that is making a difference to its users and the wider community”
Check out my latest article: Impact Explorers Notes from the SDG Network MeetUp in London last Monday #meetthesdgs #impactexplorers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact-explorers-carolina-karlstr%25C3%25B6m via @LinkedIn
Part of the team @Appymaps Enjoying some #MondayMotivation at the SDG London Meetup meeting @ticketpassHQ @Tovertafel @ecoactiongames @RippleEnergy @ManVsPink hosted by @jadeadvisory