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Environmental Defense Fund / Innocentive Award

Biological capture of nitrogen by means of bamboo

Problem:

The rain washes away the fertilizers, flowing till the rivers, lakes and sea. The increase in the concentration of nutrients leads then to euthrophization phenomena.

Our solution:

A drain system collects the water with nutrients and a pump brings them to a plantation of bamboo disposed as a belt around the plot’s perimeter. The bamboo works as a biofilter.  In this way the fertilizers washed away by the rain are recycled to grow giant bamboo with several food and industrial scopes. With less ploughed area the same quantity of crops is produced, because the hydric stress on the plants is reduced. Furthermore it is possibile to harvest the bamboo shoots and canes all year round, because it is a perennial crop.

Awards News Study cases | MRadminWP | |   bambù cattura CO2 eutrofizzazione N

Sustainable solution for the waffer industry

Innocentive prize to the best solution for cleaning charred batter from the hot plates in a factory of waffers.

The problem:
The batter adheres to the plate’s surface, and with time gets charred. The char is difficult and expensive to remove. Some cleaning methods harm the surface.

Our solution:
A simple thermal treatment that, with minimum investment and lowest energy consumption, allows to clean a big quantity of plates every day, without any damage.

Awards News Study cases | MRadminWP | | Leave a comment |   gallette premio innocentive soluzione sostenibile tecnologia

Green Vision Award 2011

The Italian magazine Modus Vivendi , represented by its Chief Editor, dr. Marco Gisotti, has given us the Green Vision  Award 2011 for the project of biologic carbon and nitrogen capture by means of bamboo cultivation. The award was publicly given at the  Jovinella Theater of Rome, during an international event that took place on 22nd May, and in which several celebrities, representatives of political movements like the Costituente Ecologista, activists and scientists participated.
 
 

Premio Green Vision 2011 Award from mario alejandro rosato on Vimeo.

Awards News Vídeos | MRadminWP | |   costituente ecologista green vision award ines nobili marco gisotti modus vivendi premi

The Economist’s Award to the best idea against global climate change

First prize of The Economist – Innocentive to the best entrepreneurial idea against the global climate change

Several links, in English, with more information about the award and the event.

Video of Mario A. Rosato’s  conference at the Pace University of New York,   Feb. 2011


Article published by The Economist
http://ideas.economist.com/blog/climate-change-challenge-0

Article published by The Economist, downloadable version
http://ideas.economist.com/sites/default/files/imce/Economist%20InnoCentive%20Challenge%20Final%202%2018%2011.doc

Press release of  The Economist
http://ideas.economist.com/press

Biography of  Mario A. Rosato published by The Economist
http://ideas.economist.com/speaker/mario-rosato

Articles published by Innocentive.com
http://www2.innocentive.com/economist-and-innocentive-announce-winner-reverse-climate-change-challenge

http://blog.innocentive.com/2011/02/24/i%e2%80%99m-a-solver-mario-alejandro-rosato/

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Rain harvesting in Kerala. (India)

First prize of the Rockefeller Foundation for solving the problem of  rain harvesting in Kerala.

Problem:

  • To build a tank of at least 6 m3 capacity for rain harvesting during the Monsoon, that costs less than 120 US$ and does not need machinery for the transport and erection. Furthermore, it must be mounted on weak consistency ground, with underground water that comes up during the Monsoon.
  • To create job places for low income inhabitants, specially for women.
  • Use only local materials.

Our solution:

A 8 m3 capacity tank designed to be easily erected by two women by assembling locally made vegetable fibre-cement panels.  Our design reduces the erection time to only 2 days and the cost of 120 US$ to the final customer leaves a margin of 30 US$ for the workers. The carbon emissions  calculated for the whole process of fabrication are null.

Awards News Study cases | MRadminWP | |   appropriate technologies bambù developing countries donne Fondazione Foundation India Paesi Pioggia Rain harvesting Rockefeller sviluppo tecnologie apropriate women

Research on biogas from algae in Gran Canaria

Partnership with the Marine Biology Center of Gran Canaria

The project consisted in starting up a laboratory on biogas research to assess the biomethane potential of several species of algae and the feasibility of growing them in wastewater with combustion gases as CO2 source.

Downloadable PDF article (in Spanish).

 

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