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Trend: green cosmetics

Photos: courtesy Laboratoires Pierre Fabre

Cosmetic industry takes a renewed interest in biobased resources. Plant-based materials are ‘in’. Not merely because they are in public demand – also because biorefinery delivers a growing supply of

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on: 30 May 2014

Claude Roy: tackle global problems by valorisation of biomass

Claude Roy

Claude Roy is a man who paints wide views with inexhaustible energy. As the chairman of the French Club des Bio-économistes his message, voiced for many years is that we

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on: 27 May 2014

Valorise flower bulbs

Daffodils contain galantamine, a medicine against Alzheimer.

Flower bulbs, a wonderful product. Again and again, tourists gasp at the sight of purple, yellow and red fields in Holland’s flower bulb area. Dutch cut flowers and flower bulbs

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on: 15 May 2014

Logical mistakes on CO2

In principle, we could capture CO2 by growing massive amounts of fast-growing crops like bamboo - if we had the water. But where to store the enormous amounts of materials produced?

Our planet’s temperature rises. There is ample proof for that. CO2 emissions are the main reason, we know that for sure as well. We cannot deny that our wealth and

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on: 14 May 2014

Glocal project: Ecover’s experiment on Mallorca

Mallorca is well suited to host a glocal project

Glocal is the buzzword at Ecover: a term coined from Global and Local. Glocal also is the name of a major Ecover project, together with Forum for the Future, intended

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on: 7 May 2014

Towards an ambitious Europe

Jonathan Holslag

In my increasingly eurosceptical home country, The Netherlands, intellectuals take a renewed interest in Europe. The squarely pro-European essay by the Austrian author and essayist Robert Menasse has been translated

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on: 5 May 2014