Mitra Ardron's Blog

Hi, and welcome to my website - a place where I've collected writings both current and past.

I work at the interfaces of Sustainability, Community and Technology.

I'm passionate about sustainability at scale; about taking solutions to those less able to afford it; and in particular in developing countries. Currently that means supporting Innovators working in, and for, developing countries through Natural Innovation .org.

In the past that has included building a solar company that pioneered large scale community purchasing in Australia, and co-founding the Association for Progressive Communications.

I am the Executive Director of Natural Innovation .org

Natural Innovation works to support & mentor innovators in, or focused on, developing countries. To help them get their idea completed, and scalably distributed.

I started this because I realised that the best ideas weren't able to raise finance, typically because the idea was unprotectable, or their market was poor, or they were based in developing countries. Venture capital wouldn't touch them because the profit didn't justify the risk, and philanthropic money wasn't prepared to take a technical risk.

www.naturalinnovation.org

While Natural Innovation .org is my main project, I've always got a few other things I'm involved with.

These currently include business development advice to Urban Ecological Systems and Consulting on clean tech investments and strategic planning for clean tech companies.

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