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EU FUSIONS: food for thought
30/09/2013
EU FUSIONS: food for thought
A major European Union research project is studying how the environmental problem of food waste can be tackled through agreed definitions, common strategies and social innovation. The EU FUSIONS project (Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising Waste Prevention Strategies) is backed by the...
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EcoWater: Modelling the impact of environmental technology on water systems
11/06/2013
EcoWater: Modelling the impact of environmental technology on water systems
A European research project led by the Environmental and Energy Management Research Unit of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, is developing complex indicators to measure the impact of eco-innovative technologies on ecosystems. The EcoWater project, says coordinator...
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Portal aims to help the seeds of innovation to grow
29/04/2013
Portal aims to help the seeds of innovation to grow
An online portal is aiming to promote the results of European environmental research and development by providing details of a range of promising eco-innovations, and rating their “technology readiness”. The Innovationseeds portal went public in mid-2012. It has established a library of results...
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Recycled footwear products enter the market
11/02/2013
Recycled footwear products enter the market
Setting up systems so that consumers can return obsolete products to retailers – whether or not at the time of purchase of a new product – is an effective way of diverting old products from waste streams and encouraging reuse and recycling. Backed by legislation, such collection schemes are in...
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Better sound barriers  
11/02/2013
Better sound barriers  
A Croatian project, part funded by the European Union's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme Eco-innovation initiative, is aiming to demonstrate that recycled vehicle tyres can be turned into an environmentally-useful product: sound reduction barriers that are installed alongside roads and...
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Greek gift
13/11/2012
Greek gift
Use of unproductive agricultural land in Greece to produce algae for biofuel could benefit the Greek economy by more than €1 billion annually, and could support more than 5,000 jobs, according to a business plan developed by two Greek entrepreneurs. John Antoniadis and Takis Panagiotopoulos won...
Greece
Turning SMEs into trailblazers
24/11/2011
Turning SMEs into trailblazers
Resource-efficiency experts are helping a select group of SMEs in the east of England to innovate, protect the environment, cut their costs and improve rural competitiveness. “A local pub can save £3,200/yr and 13.6t CO2e using heat recovered from a cellar cooler to heat hot water. Total...
United Kingdom
Floating houses for rising seas
12/11/2011
Floating houses for rising seas
A recent advance in the technology used to build floating houses could make this a more attractive option for low lying areas seeking to adapt to the effects of climate change. In low lying areas, floating or amphibian homes could provide an important means of defence against rising sea levels...
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Pooling Europe’s eco-innovation efforts
26/10/2011
Pooling Europe’s eco-innovation efforts
ECO-INNOVERA is an attempt to create a truly European vision and support programme for eco-innovation with one of its first outputs being a cross-border call for proposals for R&D. ECO-INNOVERA is a new European Research Area (ERA) network that brings together different Member States - and...
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Innovative bioprocesses may offer benefits to a fading colour textile industry
19/09/2011
Innovative bioprocesses may offer benefits to a fading colour textile industry
The scaling-up of sustainable, high-tech dyeing technology is the focus of an ongoing European Commission funded project aimed at strengthening SMEs in the colour textile industry. The Bioprocessing for Sustainable Production of Coloured Textiles project (BISCOL) is well on its way toward...
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