I have the privilege of being Executive Director of a nonprofit whose sole mission is to help advance the adoption of solutions related to sustainability. We execute our mission, in part, by the award of two $100,000 grants to early stage companies with working prototypes. (Intrigued? Go to OceanExchange.org.) People often ask me what our voting delegates and sponsors—who represent business, capital markets, NGOs, governments, and academia—look for in these early stage companies.
