• Travelling without a carbon footprint

    Travelling without a carbon footprint

    “It has become increasingly common for companies and other organizations to collect and provide data on their environmental impact, such as carbon dioxide emissions. This can be both time consuming, cumbersome, and it is not easy to motivate employees to this extraordinary task,” says Fabian Hagman, who is a co-founder of IT company Presis! Reporting expense accounts is not something most…

  • Problems with unwelcome plants

    The American lobster is a serious threat to its European relative. (Source: Sweden’s Marine and Water Authority)

    Alien plant and animal species that spread to the ecosystems in which they were not previously existent can cause major problems. Some plants and animals find opportunities in their new environment and can expand quickly. The result may be that the existing ecosystem and biodiversity is disturbed or breaks down. Species that aggressively and permanently establish themselves in new areas are known as…

  • Artificial photosynthesis

    Within the transport sector, the picture is very different, where renewable sources account for only three percent of the energy used.

    As energy demand grows it becomes increasingly important to be free from fossil fuels. As it is now, more energy is produced from renewable sources, but the challenge is to meet the transport sector’s specific requirements for storability. Maybe the solution is to transform solar energy directly into fuel, without detouring past oil and biofuel and by mimicking a plant’s own energy storage…

  • Concrete products purify city air
    The air in many major cities is so bad that it does not comply with EU air quality standards. Nitrogen oxides from car exhausts –...
  • Plasma processes can halve carbon emissions
    ScanArc Plasma Technologies, a Swedish company, has a new method for the production of hot metal. The method – called IronArc –...
  • A blooming desert
    By using available and abundant resources, one can make sensitive ecosystems greener and more productive. Innovative methods and solutions...
  • Better environment with synthetic diesel fuel
    Mention the Fischer-Tropsch process, and probably most chemists and historians would raise their eyebrows. A chemist probably knows that...
  • Industrial symbiosis grows tomatoes
    The connection between food and climate change is something that the food industry takes seriously. The production and consumption of food...
  • Thermoplastic elastomers – Flexible and recyclable
    “Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) combine the properties of vulcanized rubber with the processing properties of thermoplastics,”...
  • Simris alg is a bubbling company
    Fredrika Gullfot and her colleagues grow algae. Two thousand square meters of abandoned greenhouses in Hammenhög in southern Sweden have...