We’re delighted to announce the signing today of yet another phenomenal speaker at this year’s Youth Conference – Britain’s Youngest Sustainable Inventor, Emily Cummins is a young lady at the early stage of her career, who really has used her loaf and is doing it ethically too.
Visionary entrepreneur Emily is the award-winning creator of three products which she developed whilst still at school: a toothpaste dispenser for arthritis sufferers, a multiple water carrier, designed to aid people in carrying more water with fewer trips to the source and a sustainable non-electric refrigerator, made from sustainable materials, which enables developing countries to refrigerate medicines and food without electricity.
The 23 year-old is currently a business student at Leeds University (UK) and was recently named the 2008 Ultimate Save-The-Planet-Pioneer at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards in the UK.
In November Emily was named one of Striding Out's Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs, an honour given to "talented young entrepreneurs aged 18-35 who are demonstrating entrepreneurial flair and innovation in progressing a responsible business venture, that demonstrates a balance between economic, environmental and social goals to achieve ultimate business success.
Emily’s recommendations for the future both for herself and her work :
• a more flexible school syllabus that enables creative thinking
• more flexible university entrance requirements for SET degrees
• a 50/50 gender split in engineering
• climate change will be a driver for creative product manufacture and solving the world’s environmental problems – this will be more important than making a profit
• more women scientist role models to encourage girls into SET careers
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