Did anyone catch on ABC TV over the weekend a forum hosted by Sydney Uni Featuring Gunther Pauli?
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/08/16/3293620.htmUni featuring Gunther Pauli
'Gunter Pauli has a dream. The Belgian economist and entrepreneur has a plan to develop 100 manufacturing innovations with viable business models that could generate 100 million jobs in 10 years. All with zero emissions and no waste.
He calls it “The Blue Economy” with innovations covering the full gamut of industrial activity, from energy to mining, from medicine to banking ... all of it inspired by science and biometrics. And Pauli isn’t all talk ... there’s plenty of action in the many startup-style projects around the globe funded by his organisation Zero Emissions Research and Initiative, which is now a global network.
Memorable achievements include recycling coffee waste for mushroom farming, making biodegradable detergent from discarded citrus peel, and the conversion of petrol stations into 'charge stations' for electric cars.
His talk at Sydney University for Sydney Ideas is titled: “The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs”.'
Fascinating view on carbon emissions. He cites Brazil as an example. They have 5 high carbon emission producers who now trap the carbon, which they feed to algae to make spirulina, half of which they use as a vitamin tablet for malnourished children and the other half they sell to cosmetic manufacturers who use it in their 'lustrous' cream products.
