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CO2-scrubbing innovation offers benefits to brewers
24/02/2014
CO2-scrubbing innovation offers benefits to brewers
A Danish company is in the process of patenting an innovative carbon-dioxide scrubbing technology that could produce environmental and financial benefits for the brewing industry. The technology was developed in 2006 by The technology allows CO2 produced during brewing to be captured and...
Denmark
Innovative filtration media promises cleaner treated water
11/02/2014
Innovative filtration media promises cleaner treated water
A circular-economy initiative just outside the Scottish capital of Edinburgh is making waves in water filtration by producing a highly efficient filtration media from recycled glass. The Active Filter Media (AFM), made by the company Dryden Aqua, has been so successful that its production now uses...
United Kingdom
German start-up offers eco-efficient urban container farming
11/02/2014
German start-up offers eco-efficient urban container farming
A small German eco-innovation company is attracting attention after winning a most-promising start-up award in the "agriculture, water and waste" category at the Cleantech Open Global Forum, a major cleantech innovation event held in Silicon Valley, California, in November 2013. The company,...
Germany
Plan Bee creates a buzz
04/12/2013
Plan Bee creates a buzz
A small Scottish company is showing that a business can be built on biodiversity, by installing and maintaining bee hives on the premises of corporate customers. Plan Bee, based in the town of Motherwell, which sits between Edinburgh and Glasgow,...
Eu
New tool seeks to open up sustainability horizons
14/10/2013
New tool seeks to open up sustainability horizons
An online tool has been developed by three British organisations to help companies think in more long-term and strategic terms about the challenges they face in an increasingly resource-constrained world. The tools has been created by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board,...
United Kingdom
Project encourages companies to ponder their environmental resilience
14/10/2013
Project encourages companies to ponder their environmental resilience
The project is based on the idea that resilience and sustainability will be the two major features of tomorrow's successful companies.  The project has developed a Sustainable and Strategic Eco-innovation Toolkit to help SMEs think about their long-term sustainability. To test the toolkit,...
Belgium
Dutch architects call for support for recycled island idea
30/09/2013
Dutch architects call for support for recycled island idea
A Dutch architectural practice has drawn up the blueprint for a “recycled island” that will make use of waste recovered from the marine environment to construct floating living spaces. The firm, WHIM Architecture, believes that the concept could be useful in low lying countries – such as the...
Netherlands
Rhône-Alpes region offers funding one-stop-shop for eco-innovative SMEs
16/09/2013
Rhône-Alpes region offers funding one-stop-shop for eco-innovative SMEs
A group of French public authorities and institutions is finding that, when it comes to supporting eco-innovative SMEs, there is strength in unity. Together, the organisations seek to stimulate investment by eco-innovative SMEs by providing a one-stop-shop for project finance. INNOV'R publishes...
France
Let there be light
02/09/2013
Let there be light
A young Belgian company is combining technological innovation with financial innovation to create sustainable benefits from a natural resource that is available to everyone: daylight. EcoNation, established in 2009 in Ghent, has developed the...
Belgium
Socks from the sea
11/06/2013
Socks from the sea
Humanity faces many thorny environmental challenges, but one of the most difficult is how to clean up the seas, which have long been used as a dumping ground for waste. A pioneering initiative involving organisations in the Netherlands, Italy and Slovenia is showing how one type of waste –...
Eu

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