Toilets that seperate and collect urine

Urbantransitioners wrote: We partner with low-income communities like keko machungwa in dar es salaam to build toilets that separate urine. We then collect the urine and sell it as fertilizer to large scale farmers, subsistence farmers and gardeners. With our solution we help farmers to fertilize, irrigate and repel their crops. We also tackle the challenge of water scarcity, work for affordable sanitation and promote health and hygiene. . Our goal is that by the end of 2017 we have five farmers as early adopters using urine on their crops. Secondly, because we want to see dar es salaam as a lush and green city, we will built 10 000 toilets in dar es salaam by 2027. Ultimately, we aim to dry sanitize dar es salaam and make it an example worldwide... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Transitioning businesses to net positive

Naava wrote: Naava provides tools, training and consulting to help businesses thrive in an uncertain future. Through a combination of systems thinking, design thinking and good old fashion bottom line analysis, we help businesses do less harm and begin taking advantage of the new business opportunities sustainability brings. Business as usual is changing, as evidenced by international frameworks like the un sustainable development goals and the paris agreement. With an innovative customer engagement methodology and unique expertise in the relationship between sustainability and business, naava aims to help accelerate the shift to a more sustainable way of doing business... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Shared cargo bicycles in urban areas

CargoWheelz wrote: In dense populated cities people face a major problem, when they need to transport something bigger in shorter distance. Driving in city areas is difficult because of the traffic and parking. Also. Owning a car is expensive and doesn't fit to sustainable lifestyle, which is a big trend at the moment. Cargowheelz solves this problem by offering easily accessible shared cargo bikes in urban areas, where the ride fee is based on the used time. With our cargo bikes you are able to transport items freely and independently. In addition it's social and a lot of fun - get the bike and take your kids for a nice leisure day trip. We make your urban life without a car more convenient and affordable, and offer you new experiences. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Make textile waste biodegradable

Temu Materials wrote: We aim to reduce the burden caused by the fashion industry by degrading textile waste with the help of mushrooms. We will then produce materials, mainly leather, from the mushrooms which we will then sell forwards to our customers. Our goal is to form long lasting relationships with customers in such a way that we take their unneeded textiles and provide them with a better option... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Offgrid sawmilling

Pikotech wrote: Pikotech offers affordable and efficient sawmilling and bioenergy solutions for remote pine forest owners in developing countries. Our beachhead markets are in rural areas of tanzania and nepal where there is development aid supported pine plantations in the community land and where people do not have access to reliable electricity. We have picked these markets as there are existing capacity building projects, we have strong personal networks and team members who have experience in working in these areas. Our solution is modified to work in local context by taking off extra high-tech functions and modifying component structure to enable local maintainability... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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AI solutions for plant breeding

AgriML wrote: We want to democratise plant breeding ai capabilities with our solutions and make sustainable impact on global food system by improving plant resilience and and crop yields. As a first step we created plant variety recommendation engine, think of netflix recommended movies, that enables more precise plant variety selection in changing environmental conditions. As erosion, drought, heavy rains and other extreme weather conditions increase, it is more and more important to be able to select right seed to right place, to maximise resilience and yield of the plants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Spark Sustainability

Spark Sustainability wrote: 70 % of global greenhouse gas emissions stem from consumer choices, yet none of us know how to act to mitigate our own climate impact. Spark sustainability will change that by rebranding climate awareness and climate impact; by putting the climate impact of different everyday choices into perspective and by offering simple steps for individuals to become part of stopping climate change. We provide a platform for companies with low-carbon offerings and produce data on which personal climate actions are chosen first and why... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Electric folding bikes as a service

Bikefy wrote: Bikefy offers electric folding bikes as monthly subscription. This allows companies to easily rent as many bikes as needed when they need it. The basic subscription includes the bike, a lock as well as maintenance and service. Helmets and bags can be added on top on demand. This electric folding bike subscription is the ideal companion for monthly public transport tickets, eliminating the last mile issue in commuting. By offering an easy to use solution to commuters' last mile problem with public transport we aim at eliminating the need for commuting by car. This will safe huge amounts of ghg emissions and free up parking space for more useful uses... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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RENS Sneaker

RENS Sneaker wrote: The world creates over 2. 5 million tons of coffee waste per year and only 5% of those are recycled while the rest is dumped into landfills. At the same time, by the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than there will be fish. Rens is the world’s first sneaker made from both coffee and plastic waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Tree Mattress

Tree Mattress wrote: We are ‘tree mattress’ company, producing world’s first cellulose foam mattress. We have the technology to produce the mattress from cellulose which is totally recyclable as paper and totally free from toxic chemicals. Billions of mattress are produced every year and millions of them are dumped as waste every year. Most of the mattresses available in the market nowadays also have health issues due to the presence of harmful chemicals. Our mission is to bring the solution to this very problems without compromising the sound sleep... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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