IFLAS open lecture series: Kresse Wesling - 'Impact Entrepreneurship, Accidentally Fashionable'

Kresse Wesling, co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, will deliver a lecture entitled 'Impact Entrepreneurship, Accidentally Fashionable' as part of the IFLAS open lecture series.

Kresse is an environmental entrepreneur. Love of the environment has infiltrated all aspects of her life. 

The evolution of her career has been about an ever-increasing commitment to planet and people. She builds businesses that both make money and have a positive impact on the environment. 

Her work was recently recognized when she won 2007's Shell Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future Award.

In 2002, Kresse founded Bio-Supplies, an environmental packaging alternatives company. In 2004 she launched this business in the UK. 

Two years later, she started Babaloo, a company that produces a host of ethical and environmental products for parents and babies. 

In 2007 Kresse launched her third business, Elvis and Kresse, which turns industrial waste into innovative lifestyle products and returns 50% of profits to charities and organisations related to the waste. 

Elvis and Kresse's first line is made from decommissioned fire hose. Half of the profits from this line are donated to the Fire Fighters Charity.

• The lecture takes place at the Charlotte Mason Building on the University of Cumbria's Ambleside Campus from 5pm to 7pm on Tuesday, October 15.

For details of more lectures in the series, visit the IFLAS events page.