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Our current competition to meet Richard has ended as of midnight 17 April 2012. The Top 10 entries as voted for by the public are now being reviewed by our panel of judges. The Grand Prize winner will be announced on 14 May 2012. You can still post your Screw Business as Usual ideas with us via video upload and we'll continue to help getting good ideas shared.

Rank:1
Title:Silly
Name:Demetrios Demetriou

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Here's our idea to screw business as usual; silly wants to redefine the entertainment industry by taking the focus away from profit and focusing on customers and the planet. We want to create a silly community where everyone is welcome and prejudice is obsolete. We want silly to make a positive change in the world and make Gaia Rock by educating people to look after themselves and the earth. We plan to transcend all logical boundaries of the seriously serious realm of industry and create an exceptionally silly world where everyone gets a chance to indulge in their silly nature.

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Rank:2
Title:The KISS airship
Name:Gerold Utsch

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The KISS airship is our idea to screw the transportation business as usual. Airships have the potential to penetrate and completely disrupt existing logistics markets like rail, truck, ship or air freight. Airships could do things cheaper, faster and much more environmentally friendly than traditional means of transport. The concept has been tested and proven with a small scale model airship. The next step is to build a large scale demonstrator using existing, low-tech, off-the-shelf technology. Then, after this prototype has gained credibility (and publicity), it can be quickly scaled up to potentially lift hundreds of tons.

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Rank:3
Title:If Everyone Cares
Name:Jaki Bent

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If Everyone Cares idea of screwing business as usual is to develop a unique Central Hub of information that brings all global community projects, charities and non-profits together in one place allowing everyone to re-invest their proven strategies and tools to benefit communities globally. Often, when people need help, they don’t know where to turn, IEC’s Global Community Map will pin-point these contacts and bring together needs and resources. It also allows people worldwide to see at a click which projects require volunteers and/or fundraising support. If Everyone Cares, Together We Can, Together We Will, Be the Decade of Change.

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Rank:4
Title:GEERAFFE
Name:Rynhardt Hanekom

Description:

GEERAFFE: Globally empower eco revolutionaries aiming for famine emancipation. Wake up! The world is changing, read all of these people.s ideas, watch their videos. We are shifting from an industry driven world, to one that is becoming aware of our symbiotic relationship with our home, and the need to live in harmony with everything around us. Isn.t it exciting?! It is time that we look at how to maximise positive change, with very little effort, and fixing the problems at the core. Be part of this world changing force, a simple click of a button has more power than you can imagine. Go ahead, like us on Facebook!

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Rank:5
Title:Creating Generational Change
Name:Stacey Huish

Description:

Build social, economical, and environmental sustainable and responsible businesses that donate 90& of the profit to Not For Profit organisations who are creating generational change. One profitable business per not for profit.

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Rank:6
Title:Raise5 - Turning Talents Into Donations
Name:Mike Tang

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Raise5 is a team of young social entrepreneurs who are passionate about screwing business as usual when it comes to non-profit fundraising. We wanted a way to be able to share our respective talents & skills with others in order to help support the causes we care about. So we created Raise5, the first and only online marketplace that enables individuals to leverage their skills, talents, and creativity as a force for good. Anyone can offer to do a small service or task for $5 and the proceeds go to support non-profit organizations. Raise5.com

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Rank:7
Title:Better Models Make Better Businesses
Name:Bill Crane

Description:

My idea to screw business as usual is to create new models for business. Businesses and corporations are failing society for the simple fact that they have no idea what society expects of them. They have no models to work from. They have default models that we simply accept. The current Occupy Wall Street people are so on track at identifying the problems, but don’t realize how close they are to the solution. The solutions are embedded in the problem. My video tells how to extract those solutions and how to create healthy, sustainable models for business.

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Rank:8
Title:Building A World Without Offices
Name:Eddie Yu

Description:

Have you ever stopped to consider that office space is left empty over 70% of the time? My idea is to build a world without offices and it's an idea I've been working on for the last 9 months. I'm deeply passionate about it, not only because it gives people their freedom and lives back, it also helps to reduce the amount of CO2 impacting global warming.

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Rank:9
Title:Screw Festivals as Usual
Name:Jason Chang

Description:

It's time for Worldwide Reforestation Festivals. My idea combines the fun festival platform with hands-on reforestation activities and is designed to inspire a reforestation domino effect across festivals around the world. The festival would be .Zero Waste. and all the unavoidable pollutant energy that goes into the festival would be outweighed by producing a natural system that outputs more energy than it took in. The reforested land would also be preserved and/or sustainably harvested.

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Rank:10
Title:Including Charity in our everyday purchases
Name:Shannen O'Brian

Description:

What if the money you spent each day could help people to climb out of poverty? Karma Exchange works with local businesses to market their brand in conjunction with a charity project. At karmaexchange.com, we market brands through similar services to Groupon, Expedia, EBay, and Ticketmaster, but every time you purchase a Karma Exchange promotion, you are helping someone climb out of poverty. Our hope is for Karma to spread to cities all over the world, so that we begin to shift our mindset about charity, and incorporate doing good into our everyday. Join our movement to shop with heart!

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