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OVAM SIS Toolkit for a sustainable design process
The OVAM SIS Toolkit is a tool to integrate sustainability into innovation and design processes in order to increase value creation. SIS stands for Sustainable Innovation System . This tool, developed for the business community, is also used …
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Teach your child to program with Scratch! -Roadbear Studios
Programming for children, a hot topic. Many parents would like their child to take some sort of programming course. Programming classes for children are springing up like mushrooms.
The first studies into whether all programming lessons …
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Update of the Flemish material indicators until 2021
Circular materials story: The Flemish circular economy does not yet translate into a reduced material impact.
We are increasingly successful in keeping materials in the cycle. Our reuse and recycling figures are increasing, we are producing more and …
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Vocabulary, food budget and logarithms
What do a writer's vocabulary and one's budget spent on food have to do with each other? Well, more than you might think! The mathematical relationship appears to be logarithmic.
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Code Week ambassadors Nicky and Evelien ready for challenging assignment: Interview
The citizens' initiative EU Code Week promotes numerous activities around programming and digital skills. Dozens of organizations in our country participate to make coding accessible to young people in a fun, attractive way. However, the EU Code …
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Material Matters: Article with inspiring insights
Article providing insights and arguments for a transition from a neoliberal economy to an alternative economy.
These are based on the book Material Matters, the alternative to our predatory construction society by Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau.
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Cardgo: Educational card game about the operation, economy and professions of the port
Cardgo lets your students look inside the port area while playing and learning. They experience the impact of the port on their living environment. From now on, there will no longer be a classic preparation bundle as an introduction to the port …
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Applying Artificial Intelligence to Images, DALL-E
The blog article explains step by step how to get started with images created by artificial intelligence.
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Recovery economy: Environmentally friendly and financially beneficial
By repairing a product instead of replacing it (purchasing a new product), the lifespan of the product is extended. This saves materials and greenhouse gas emissions during the production of a new product.
For products that consume a lot of energy, …
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The material footprint of Flemish consumption
The materials footprint of Flanders or Raw Material Consumption (RMC) is the total of primary raw materials that are extracted worldwide as a result of Flemish consumption.
These primary raw materials are minerals, fossil raw materials, biomass and …
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Global environmental benefits through local and circular textile consumption
In order to meet our Flemish consumption needs, we currently have to obtain a large part of the required raw materials from abroad. Reuse, recycling and high-quality, local production of textiles can ensure that the extraction of primary raw …
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Climate footprint: Sustainable compared to a fast fashion T-shirt
European consumption of textiles has the fourth largest impact on the environment and climate change, after food, housing and mobility. Textile consumption is also in the top three factors that place the most pressure on water and land use and in …
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