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Global Giving together with the Rockefeller Foundation to raise funds for the Kerala project

Innocentive announces in a press release that the Rockefeller Foundation will contribute with 200% of the amount collected through Global Giving to fund a project on rain harvesting in Kerala , where a solution proposed by Sustainable Technologies was awarded the first prize in an international challenge.

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Biogas Day in Udine (Italy)

Conference on the advantages of assessing the biomethane potential (BMP) in order to optimize anaerobic digestion plants.

Introduced by dr. Piero Mattirolo, President of the Lombard Agroenergetic District, Mario A. Rosato gave a conference on how to assess the BMP of the organic substrates and its importance to optimize the yield of the biogas plants. Video in Italian

 

 

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Conference in Carbonia (Sardinia)

 Proposals of the Green Economy to create jobplaces in Sardinia

The delocation of Alcoa’s smelting facility of Portovesme leves  1500 unemployed people, both direct employees and induced sectors.   On 21st Jan. 2012 Mario A. Rosato gave a conference in Carbonia, explaining the alternatives that the Green Economy could offer for the sustainable development of the Region.

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Energy audit in an alumina production plant

The Highland Group hired Sustainable Technologies’ services to perform an energy audit in Brazil.

The plant of Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio,  in Cidade Aluminio (São Paulo) consumes about 1,5% of all the energy produced by the Latinoamerican giant. During our energy audit, that lasted 5 days, we found energy savings opportunities of 8%  electricity and 20% of the consumed natural gas.

 

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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