Counting Carbon

Counting Carbon wrote: Food accounts for approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Taking a number of important factors into account, counting carbon generates a relative score for each food product so that the consumer can easily choose the food products that are best for the environment. By changing consumer behaviour, we can create a competitive advantage for environmentally friendly companies, and drive clean tech innovation along the food supply chain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Stop shipping air

colleq wrote: No one would question you why squeeze a pet bottle before you through it out. Because it saves spaces and means you have to return your bottles less often, the recycling stations have to pick them up less often and they need less space and fuel to be transported. . So why don't you do it with your trash? . You probably even do - you throw out your yoghurt cup and then push down on your trash but one of the amazing capabilities of plastics is staying in shape. Instead of shipping all the air that's stuck between your yoghurt cups, plastics, food containers, styrofoam packaging etc. Our wilson will break them down in to pieces and save space, fuel and money... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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The self-watering wall-garden

Green Ambassador wrote: Green ambassador - the modern solution to urban gardening. If you've ever had your own garden to tend to, you know how time-intensive even just a small plant of basil can be. Out of this frustration, green ambassador was created. Solar panels collect and store energy in a highly efficient battery pack, while a smart humidity sensor in the soil measures and decides if watering is needed and turns on the pumps if so. It is a smart and beautiful gardening solution, which fits easily onto any wall and transforms it into an urban oasis. In short: urban gardening made easy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Microbe cement. Ready to use.

MeduSoil wrote: We integrate a natural bacterial mechanism into geo-technical applications for engineering stronger, more resistant, foundation substrates. As modern engineering works become more complex and suitable land for development scarcer, implementing soil stabilization solutions becomes vital for securing the integrity of infrastructures in the long-term and mitigating risks related to weak soil formations or environmental threats. We introduce a novel material design which incorporates elements of technical innovation,. Environmental responsibility and economic efficiency with respect to current practice for ultimately tailoring improved material properties in subterranean applications, targeting the needs of the foreseen engineering problem... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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We create bike frames made of bamboo

Changboo wrote: My nature my bike our bicycle frames are mostly made of natural resources. Changboo bicycle frames are manufactured from bamboo and hemp fiber both of which have a positive impact on the carbon footprint. Of the product. Riding a bicycle is environmentally sustainable, with our bamboo bike it's even more!. Leave the car at home and take the bike!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Suncrowd

suncrowd wrote: We use crowd-financing to install solar panels on a customers roof for free. In turn, the customer has to draw electricity directly from suncrowd at a competitive price (cheaper or equal to grid price). With these earnings, we are able to pay back an interest rate to the crowd and still make profit. . We will collect the money through a modern web plattform, and use the plattform as a marketing channel at the same time. Energy consumers will be able to monitor their bills and statistics in real time. . In the end, our goal is to lower the barriers for using solar power and bring solar power to its full potential... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Industrial high productivity CO2 recycling equipment

NeoCarbons wrote: Migration from fossils means alternative ways of sourcing raw materials. Since all carbon chains, whether for foods, feeds, chemical industries, come from co2, neocarbons is proposing a patented equipment that can capture and transform co2 from industrial sources into high value chemicals, on a real time basis (zero net), competitively, profitably and in respect of sustainable development principles. On a 5 m2 footprint the solution recycles 165 tons of co2 annually; it is conceived to be easily upscaled into industrial production plants in order to tap to tap the 20 gt of industrial co2 rich gaseous effluents. Source: eit climate kic's climatelaunchpad.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Decentraslied waste to energy managment

Innovopilis Waste Solutions wrote: Innovopolis offers a decentralized waste management service that contains waste within the built areas of the community and turns it into energy at the point where it is generated: a self-sufficient service which eliminates the need for waste collection, waste incineration and waste landfilling. Our solution can be applied to any community, from rural communities like islands to large multi-complex properties such as high-rise buildings and by doing so we reduce the annual carbon footprint of every inhabitant by 1 tonnes of co2... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Returning wire hangers to dry cleaners

Boomerang wrote: Boomerang collection cartons are a functional way for customers to collect wire hangers from their dry cleaners and return them for reuse. At the same time, they offer dry cleaners the opportunity to place advertisement on the cartons and increase customer loyalty by offering discounts for returned hangers. Both parties save money: customers by not disposing them with the household trash and dry cleaners by not having to buy new ones. And what's more important, the amount of co2 for production and import as well as trash from single-use of the wire hangers is reduced!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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Air quality monitoring platform

AirBie wrote: Our platform allows monitoring of air quality through a network of sensors of nox, co, nh3 and fine dust and other pollutants to measure air quality together with the geolocation of the sensors. The data of the sensors are stored in an immutable blockchain, a new distributed database. Our platform provides real-time rendering of the air quality data on a city map with full transparency and traceability... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

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