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Alternative economy shopping centre planned for Dijon, France  
17/11/2014
Alternative economy shopping centre planned for Dijon, France  
A new type of shopping centre that aims to address both environmental and social concerns is being planned for the eastern French city of Dijon. Known as the “Cité de l’autre économie,” or city of the alternative economy, the centre is expected to open in 2016. The “Cité de l’autre économie”...
France
Social networking for green SMEs  
21/10/2014
Social networking for green SMEs  
A new European eco-innovation platform is hoping to create the foundations for what could become an eco social network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The project, One aim of the project is to build up a database of SME “solutions” that other SMEs can access. These cover a...
Eu
Slovakian company finds profit in auto industry waste
07/10/2014
Slovakian company finds profit in auto industry waste
A Slovakian company is increasingly finding new uses and markets for its innovative product - which is made by recycling a waste stream from the auto industry. The company, Stered PR Krajné Ltd, grew out of a project involving the Textile Technology Institute in Bratislava, the Chemical Fibres...
Slovakia
Major packaging users seek ways to cut resource consumption
15/07/2014
Major packaging users seek ways to cut resource consumption
Danish brewing multinational Upcycling is the conversion of used materials into materials of equivalent or better quality. The Carlsberg initiative, the Carlsberg Circular Community, will address the need for greater resource efficiency and reuse in its packaging by seeking Cradle-to-Cradle (...
Denmark
Ecover claims two eco-innovation firsts
02/06/2014
Ecover claims two eco-innovation firsts
Belgium's The first first is the development and use of algal oil as a substitute for palm oil in Ecover laundry liquid. Palm oil is widely used in many products, but is associated with clearance of tropical forest and its replacement with palm plantations. Ecover claims that algal oil is a...
Belgium
Solar-powered electric mobility  
02/06/2014
Solar-powered electric mobility  
A French company is potentially making the roll-out of electric mobility in European cities easier by offering a suite of “SunPods”, or vehicle recharging points powered by solar energy. In doing so, the company, Nice-based ADVANSOLAR, is building on recent developments that have been seen...
France
From rock to paper  
07/05/2014
From rock to paper  
People have been making paper in one form or another for at least 2000 years, and the art of paper-making has been through several technological shifts, most notably the switch from cotton and linen fibres as a raw material to wood pulp, a development that took place in the mid-nineteenth century...
Eu
Italian network puts eco-innovators on the international map
22/04/2014
Italian network puts eco-innovators on the international map
Italy Cleantech Network is a project launched in 2013 by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea that helps to give clean tech SMEs and start-ups access to the international market. Among the Network’s 71 participants are those from the biofuels and biochemical sectors to those in...
Italy
Clothing project to explore the circular economy for textiles  
18/03/2014
Clothing project to explore the circular economy for textiles  
The garment sector is becoming seriously interested in the recycling of textile fibres to make new clothing. A denim-recycling process was developed as long ago as the mid-1990s by Armani. More recently, the collection of old clothing as a raw material for new products has become highly organised...
Eu
Top tips for sustainable innovators
24/02/2014
Top tips for sustainable innovators
Sustainable innovation needs to be anchored in the rethinking of current business models, and eco-innovators need to be prepared for a potentially “very bloody fight” with current market leaders, according to “10 key lessons” from the latest The CfSD, based in the United Kingdom, has organised...
United Kingdom

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