Feb
17
It can reduce the CO2 footprint of consumer products
Avantium has bought the American company Liquid Light Inc.
Liquid Light has developed the process technology by which chemical building blocks can be produced from CO2. Read More
Nov
27
Decarbonizer doesn’t judge, so why not see if you’re leaving money on the table?
Not only fossil investments are undesirable because they annoy the green energy supplies, it also scores badly financially.
Pension Fund ABP have lost $ 9 billion investing in fossils according to 350.org, a movement against fossil investment. Read More
Nov
12
The approach of circular economy is: make – use – maintain/ reuse/ remanufacture/ recycle. Waste should be seen as source of valuable resources. Products should be repaired, remanufactured and reused.
A genius idea in times when resources get scarce – be it oil, water or different metals and when the world has to face a growing population. It is estimated that 9.2 billion people will live on earth in 2050 (UN).
The world in 2050: That world is a fair, high-tech and sustainable one – with advances that mean food for all, a reformed capitalism, and a circular economy.
But the road getting there will not be easy.
The more I look at the two sides – the environment and the economy – the more convinced I become that the way forward is to fully integrate resource efficiency into the way we live and do business in the world.
We know why a circular economy is a good idea. At the moment the world is still locked into a linear production chain that is resource intensive. We obtain resources and then discard them as waste.
Aug
20
The U.S. Zero Waste Business Council is a great resource in Southern California for businesses striving to achieve Zero Waste, or who want to substantially reduce their waste. Read More
Apr
13
Biomass power plants—in some cases, biorefineries—work much like a fossil fuel power plant. A plant-based product, such as wood scraps, trees, switchgrass, corn stover, hemp, sugarcane, corn, yard clippings or even garbage, is combusted to heat water into steam. That steam spins an electric turbine and electricity is created.
Six EU-countries have developed a calculation tool for suppliers of renewable energy from biomass.
The tool allows them to create an insight of the emission-savings if electricity and heat are conversed from biomass. Read More
Jan
13
Encourage biomass is used as raw material for high-quality materials. Only burn remnants which can’t be used elsewere
3 scientists criticize the ecological benefits of bio-mass in the energy production. Bio-fuels doesn’t decrease Greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the conclusion in the vision document ‘Biofuel and wood as energy sources‘ (in Dutch) published today at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Read More
Sep
25
Can we even fail faster and bigger for an even better outcome?
The light lamp, the polio vaccine and the Internet: according to the Icelandic president Grímsson these products have something in common:
They first appeared failures but were very successful later.
Fear of failure keeps people sometimes inside themselves, while learning from mistakes is so important.
