World Efficiency Supports the Low-Carbon and Resource-Efficient Economy
– from our partners – This year, World Efficiency Solutions is taking on a whole new dimension, offering professionals from all countries and sectors involved in combating ...
Children Will Invent a Green Future
Gunter Pauli, an entrepreneur, economist, ecologist, Blue economy inventor and one of the promoters of the Kyoto Protocol, is very critical of COP21 in Paris: he has solutions devised over...
The Man Who Rethinks Buildings
Victor Olgyay ©BompanEmanuele Boulder, Colorado. Mountains half-surround this small city at the feet of the Rocky Mountains. Not far away shine the higher peaks, ...
45 and Still Going Strong
It is a “common” symbol, a recognized iconic object that is part of our pre-ecological imagery. By the way, for graphic designers such symbol is defined as “trademark&rdq...
Leading Big in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Systems View
Researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Center call it the “Great Acceleration”. It’s a surge that has been observed since the 1950s in the data of population, exploitation of reso...
What is the Real Cost of Palm Oil Production?
It is used for everything and it is found everywhere: detergents, cosmetics, soaps, biscuits, snacks, ready-made meals, Nutella, ice creams. We are talking about palm oil, one of the world’s m...
The Complete Package?
On 2nd December 2015, the European Commission presented its new circular economy package containing a communication on the circular economy, together with a list of measures, and four legislative pr...
How to Shape The Next Level of The European Bio-Based Economy?
What Does the Concept of Bio-Based Economy Promise? The idea of creating a Bio-based Economy is exciting for the material sector: It promises to introduce new chemicals, building-blocks and polymer...
1.27 Trillion Euro: That's How Much the Bioeconomy is Worth in the EU5
A production value of over €1.27 trillion and 7 million workers. These are the bioeconomy figures in Europe’s five major economies (Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Spain) accor...
Compost Makes its Entrance
Fruit, vegetables, meat, coffee and egg residues. But also tissues and garden waste such as branches, leaves, grass and straw. This is all useful material to make compost, the natural organic fertil...
Regions and the Circular Economy
Emilia-Romagna is the first Italian region to have taken on, by law, the circular economy as the North Star of its waste policy with the aim of reducing mixed MSW production and recover as much matt...
Will Berlin Be the Global Capital of the Bioeconomy?
Wachstum und Stabilität. Germany has based its economy on this formula since the Weimar Republic period. Growth and stability for a country that for years has been recognized as the driving for...
Bioeconomy Drives Resource Efficiency and Green Growth
Focus Germany Germany holds an internationally leading position in the establishment of a bioeconomy. At the end of 2010 – as one of the first nations – your country p...
Cars: Design's Love Affair with New Materials
New vehicles design is increasingly searching for performance solutions linked to materials and fuel consumption. On the one hand, there is the need for continuously improving engine efficiency in o...
The Budding Bioeconomy
“Our strategy is inspired by a series of guidelines, starting from the protection of natural capital – an aspect that we take very seriously – and the management of natural resourc...
The Facebook Generation Will Lead Dematerialization
The fifth issue of Renewable Matter includes an interview with economist Mariana Mazzucato that reviews the current engines of innovation. She describes how public and private governa...
Blackwater, Black Gold
“Nothing grows out of diamonds. Out of dung, flowers do grow,” used to sing Fabrizio De André in 1967. Asking the poet’s for forgiveness, fifty years on we can go a step fur...
The Birth of Waste
Adriana Varella and Nilton Malz, Digital DNA, Palo Alto (California), 2005. Photo by Wonderlane, graphic elaboration Nature does not generate waste: evolution has...
Seek and you Shall Find
The circular economy concept is becoming increasingly widespread, but it is not easy to apply to the operational and everyday run of businesses. Indeed, by definition, the circular economy requires ...
Islam: The Third Way
The imposition of an uneven, forced modernization, on the one side; the retribution of archaic, systematic violence, on the other. In the Islamic world, a third way between these two extre...