The Club of Rome for many years has been supportive of proposals for sustainability and for technologies that limit the adverse impact of humanity on the ecosystems of the planet. “The Blue Economy”, initiated and authored by Club of Rome member Gunter Pauli presents and discusses 100 innovations in the field of sustainable resource management.
Each innovation in this report details working projects around the world that are in line with the needs of local people and ecosystems. There are one hundred innovations described in the report, the first of which is detailed below.
“Many of the innovations inspired by nature are so interesting by themselves it is easy to forget that the key to the book is their integration with real world economies as ways to provide sustainable benefits to the commons” Prof. Pauli says on www.blueeconomy.de.
“The Blue Economy is presented in fourteen chapters, each of which investigates an aspect of the world’s economies and offers a series of innovations capable of making aspects of those economies sustainable. Following are “in-a-nutshell” descriptions of the chapters with very brief examples.”
For further information please visit the publisher’s website or www.blueeconomy.de
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Case 1: The Vortex saves energy, eliminates chemicals and generates 250,000 jobs within a decade |
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Case 2: Maggots – Nature’s Nurses reduce waste, promote health and generate 500,000 jobs within a decade |
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Case 3: Coffee : Export Crop Provides Food Security convert methane to CO2, secure food and generate 50 million jobs |
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Case 4: No Batteries reduce mining and smelting, cut costs and eliminate health risks |
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Case 5: Glass as a building material reduce strip mining and landfills, sequester CO2, get paid for raw materials |
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Case 6: Fuel from the Forest create a multiple cash flow, regenerate biodiversity, power combustion engines |
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Case 7: Silk versus Titanium generate top soil, expand farm land, reducing mining and energy consumption |
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Case 8: Color without Pigments reduce toxicity, save energy, reducing mining and create new industries |
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Case 9: Metals without Mining saves energy, produces pure metals and eliminates e-waste |
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Case 10: Fresh Air for Free saves energy, reduces capital cost and secure healthy living |
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Case 11: Wind Energy without (new) Pylons reduce investments, save metals, and use existing infrastructure |
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Case 12: Wind Energy without Turbines reduce infrastructure, save metals, and bring electricity to the unreached |
