It was brought to life by current challenges, and we, Mielemed MPM colleagues and NUXON brand employees, founded the sustainability working group with our responsible partners at the Budapest and Pest County Regional Organization of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers.

The founders are a community of conscious entrepreneurs who support each other’s development and success and are dedicated to responsible and ethical business life. In this emerging and growing topic, we can become successful and effective leaders of change if we continuously develop ourselves and support each other.
By belonging to a well-known and recognized community, Community of Sustainability Enterpreneurs wishes to provide inspiration and access to up-to-date knowledge, opportunities to build relationships, and tools and methods to develop practical and entrepreneurial skills. Transferring essential information, sharing knowledge, motivating common thinking and responsible actions, raising awareness of the impact of our actions on society, the environment, and the economy along the entire value chain is in the interest of all of us. We have to show that the community has power and that we don’t leave anyone behind!
Like the global challenges and the domestic situation, we are constantly changing and we try to help as effectively as possible to create common and reliable values with the help of regularly organized excellent professional forums, round table discussions, knowledge-sharing evenings, worthwhile conferences, community actions, education, training, and education.
Our goal is to continuously strengthen ourselves, each other and the profession to which we belong, with the active initiative and participation of our members, as a self-organizing and open community, recognizing the professional and practical efforts made for sustainability. We want to create a solid foundation for the initiation of as many positive changes as possible and work together to achieve sustainable development goals. Our first joint event with COLLAB Mentoring was an SDGs Game, which playfully educated us along the UN’s sustainability goals.

Everyone has one of those drawers or a small table at home where flyers, advertising leaflets, and business cards end up after an event. They either end up in the cupboard forever or are thrown away at a later date without attracting too much attention. This, of course, is a great waste of paper.

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The Regional Waste Management Centre in Pusztazámor is a veritable stork colony, with more than 20 pairs of storks nesting there this year. Now, the site is safer for the birds after E.ON’s replacing of the overhead lines there with underground cables. The investment also benefits the large-bodied guests of the special feeding and nesting site, the protected white storks and other birds.

Seagulls, crows, bee-eaters, kestrels, sand martins as well as numerous white storks feed and nest at the Pusztazámor Waste Treatment Plant, the country’s largest landfill. The 55-hectare facility on the outskirts of Budapest has been a harbour for birds since it opened, offering them a banquet all year long. Even the particularly rare black stork is seen occasionally there, showing how this secure food source is even more attractive than their original home in the undisturbed floodplain forests, especially during drought periods.

The landfill site’s natural characteristics were apparent from the first stork nests that appeared in its first year of operation. Today, the extensive meadows and wetlands, fish ponds and the proximity of the Danube and several canals make the Zámor deposit a unique habitat within Europe, rich in species. Last year, 24 pairs of white storks nested on the tops of utility poles and compost heaps, resulting in more than 60 chicks being raised by the pairs. The national park’s experts tag the hatchlings each summer. During the flocking period before the autumn migration, up to 200 storks stay on the site at a time, and some even spend the winter in Pusztazámor. As for the other bird species, sometimes 2-3,000 black-headed gulls feed in the area at the same time, and large flocks of rooks and jackdaws also arrive in autumn and winter.

Medium-voltage power lines there were the only thing that prevented larger birds from flying in and out. Following E.ON’s investment this spring, only underground cables are now present in the area with the greatest level of bird activity.

E.ON experts, in cooperation with the Danube-Ipoly National Park Directorate, paid special attention to the interests of birds during construction. The power lines’ cross supports were left in place to serve as nesting and perching sites for the storks. The gesture of deliberately clearing out the wires in March (before nesting) seems to have been appreciated, as the cross supports, now a safe place to brood and raise young, have been invariably occupied by pairs of storks. The development also benefits people living in the area, who will no longer experience frequent power cuts caused by the nesting activity of storks, due to branches falling on the power lines. The supply of power to the area will be more stable and reliable, also a boon for the landfill’s operation.