GREAT

GREAT wrote: I am dr pradeep kagane, founder of start up great. We do azolla farming using wastewater. My start up great saless azolla to poultry farmers of nashik as protein rich feed @.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Green Aqua

Green Aqua wrote: India is having 4% of world's fresh water, out of which 80% is used in agriculture. Green aqua will enable traditional farmers to transform their agriculture practices into sustainable method of farming by mimicking natural ecosystem in the farm environment. Our idea works on very basic principle of nitrogen cycle. Water with fish excreta is used as a source of nutrition and the same water is being recirculated for growing fish and vegetables and thereby saving 95% of water. Chemical pesticide usage is another pain point which leaves its residue on leaves and different parts of plants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Green Bang Snacks

Green Bang Snacks wrote: Green bang snacks is a company based in clean country with low pollution levels. It is lithuania. We started this company in order to produce organic healthy foods at an affordable price and do impact in food production technologies, food packaging technologies, achieve 0 waste emission, reduce ghg's and do impact on desertification by restoring forests. Right now we are working on plant-based organic snacks made from freeze dried berries, veggies and sprouted-roasted chick peas. We chose vegan snacks because plant-based food production need less resources and releases less ghg's. "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. " –chinese proverb.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

Green City Protocol

Green City Protocol wrote: Motivating people who reside in the city, who work in the city or are visiting the city, to help out with their actions - namely, using public transportation, walking, cycling or carpooling rather than driving each with their individual cars. We have an app mvp which will be launched in two levels: using google's tools to anonimously recognize whether the phone user is driving, walking or cycling. Using our own machine learning algorithm to very precisely determine the mode of transport (walking, running, scooter, motorbike, car, carpool, bus)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Slovenia

Green garbage bags and warm bed mattresses

Solution for Delhi's Pollution wrote: Burning of paddy straw is major cause of air pollution to go up to hazardous level in delhi during winter. Farmers of delhi and it's neighboring states, punjab & haryana burn paddy straw because it has no economic value for them. Our patent-pending technique for making environment friendly green garbage bags, carry bags and bed mattress from paddy straw would solve delhi's pollution problem. Paddy straw bed is quite warm, so it can be provided to people of cold regions. Plastic is banned in more than 80 countries world-wide and in india, plastic is banned in almost every state. In fact, in maharashtra plastic ban is being followed strictly and heavy fines are being imposed for use of plastic... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Green Plastics

Green Plastics wrote: We collect waste plastic materials from individuals in the communities in exchange for cash. We will communicate with these individuals through our ap where they will tell us their address and take a picture of their collection. Though this we create a source of income for the old ,disabled and unemployed. We will then sell the plastic bottles we accumulated to plastic recycling companies/projects . The rest of the plastics will go to our factories where they will be reinforced using pyloritic liquifaction and mixed with molten zinc to make the plastic stronger. We will then turn the 'new' plastic into plastic building materials which are stronger to construction companies at a much lower price ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

South Africa

Green pocket: Climate Change Edition

Green pocket wrote: . We plan on giving use to urban pockets that would otherwise stay unused. This improves microclimate and gives good green area for citizens to spend their free time at. Green pocket gives use to otherwise unused urban spaces. Our solution aims to provide a healthy environment for local citizens, while promoting biodiversity, absorbing c02 and building urban resilience. We collaborated with local government in creation of our idea and we received a lot of positive feedback for our idea. It relates to goal 3 good health and wealth being and goal 15 life on land. It is very simple concept, easy to understand and implement which we think is great advantage of our idea... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Serbia

Green Recycling Bank - GRB

Green Recycling Bank wrote: Is a recycling bank. People open an account at the bank and deposit solid waste plastic, paper, cardboard, metal and electronic waste. Then they choose the dates of waste disposal every month every three months every six months every year and they get an additional return as a result of depositing the waste other than the value of the waste. They replace the value of these waste in the form of money or get products and services from more than 500 products and services using the green card, an electronic payment card, and we will recycle all the waste we will collect and transfer it to raw materials in ways that are environmentally friendly and sold to factories... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Egypt

Green shopping education

Green shopping education wrote: As a matter of fact, waste has major negative impacts on climate change, in a way that even its removal and filtration will end in harmful consequences. Bearing in mind these facts, it has been decided to introduce a new educational method (green shopping) in response to more efficient waste management for residual toxicity decline (toxicity is a subject which less considered than other aspects of waste management in iran). Housewives, teenagers and children are selected as the target audience aiming their daily routine shopping habits. The main goal of green shopping is that people consciously consider products for buying which have less waste and toxic residual... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Green social network

TrackEarthON wrote: Interactive social network that will challenge inner competitiveness among consumers, through collecting “green points” from bought food products. Such competitiveness has ability to create a critical public mass that can further attract the food production industry by favorising parties that invest in green technologies. Altogether, it will increase the public awareness about the climate change and how their daily choices (can) impact it: think globally, act locally!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia