Agromining: What if we Farmed Metals?
To pluck three golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to hold the sky on his shoulders instead of Atlas. The pioneers of agromining, on the other hand, hope to have to go thro...
Startup: Eco-friendly and Recyclable Sneakers from Miret
Miret is a Croatian startup whose aim is to design and manufacture compostable and recyclable sneakers using natural, renewable, and sustainably-grown materials. Winner of the Sustainable Fashion Go...
Startup: Cocogreen, agricultural substrates from coconut fiber
Cocogreen is the British cultivation substrate company that utilizes coconut fiber as the main ingredient for intensive cultivation of berries, pharmaceutical marijuana, salad greens and fruit trees...
The next ACR+ General Assembly will be held in Dublin
From 31st May to 1st June this year, to mark its 2023 General Assembly in Dublin, ACR+ will offer the opportunity to take part in three events. ACR+, the international network of over 50 regions and...
Circular Economy Hotspot coming to Dublin on 29th May
Having reached its seventh edition, the Circular Economy Hotspot has become one of the flagship events in the circular economy calendar. It is an opportunity to highlight successful circular initiat...
Startup: Recovering Silicon, Silver, and Copper from PV Panels with ROSI Solar
ROSI Solar is among the first companies in Europe to offer an industrial solution for the inexpensive recovery of high-purity silicon, silver, and copper from end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) modules. ...
Helsinki is ready for the 2023 World Circular Economy Forum
The World Circular Economy Forum 2023 (WCEF) is set to take place in Finland between 30 May and 2 June. The foremost international forum on the circular economy will bring together in Helsinki the m...
Startup: Mycelium-based Furniture and Packaging from RongoDesign
RongoDesign combines mycelium technology and the recycling of agroindustrial waste to create safe and durable interior design products with biophilic characteristics, which help build healthy spaces...
Startup: FixFirst, an Operating System to Extend the Life of Products
Founded in 2019, German startup FixFirst offers companies a software as-a-service that aims to be the OS (operating system) for circular services and products, focusing especially on repair. A soft...
Sustainable Tourism and Green Certifications: an Overview
Tourism, like other sectors, is experiencing a boom in green certifications. Globally, there are 150 certificates assessing the sustainability of tourism activities such as hotels, resorts, res...
Startup: biobased and home compostable plastics with Traceless Materials
Germany-based Traceless Materials offers an alternative to single-use, fossil-based plastics thanks to its biobased and home compostable plastics. With special technology developed by the Hamburg-ba...
Hans Bruyninckx: beyond the green city, the future is in integrated cities
Innovation, creativity, cooperation, vision: cities have always been the place where change begins and future is built. The path mapped out by the European Green Deal, then, can only start in t...
Startup: Vertical Protein Production from Insects with Tebrito
Tebrito is the Swedish insect production company that uses the protein produced by the Tenebrio molitor, also known as the mealworm or miller's tenebrion, native to continental Europe, as an al...
UN Water Conference: Towards a Global Water Agenda?
The 22nd of March marks World Water Day, and this year the focus will be on accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. On the same day, in New York, the United Nations will kick o...
Circular water in the Netherlands: an example of resilience, innovation, and cooperation
Climate change increases the risk of flooding in regions around the North Sea due to rising sea levels, increasing river flows, and more intense precipitation. People and economies are at risk, but ...
Startup: IoT and AI to Manage Water Assets with Droople
“The sustainable management of global water resources will be at the core of the circular economy of tomorrow,” states Ramzi Bouzerda, founder and CEO of Droople, a Swiss cleantech compa...
IPCC Synthesis Report Sends Urgent Message for Climate Politics
The most important document of the decade has been published. The official IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report went online at 14:00 on Monday, 20 March. It is the fourth volume of the sixth climate assessment...
The Circular Economy as a Pillar of the EU’s Development
Our world population consumes 110 billion tonnes of materials a year and wastes over 90 percent of them. Only 7.2 percent of those materials make it back into our economy and, according to the Circu...
Startup: MagREEsource Recovers and Recycles Rare Earths for Magnets
MagREEsource is a French startup that, thanks to its hydrogen-based magnet recycling process, is contributing to reducing the carbon footprint of the green energy industry and guaranteeing Europe’...
Towards a Global Green Deal
The Ventotene Manifesto, penned by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, two of modern Europe’s founding fathers, and the Paneuropa document, written by Richard Nikolaus of Coudenhove-Kalergi, defin...