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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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Let's DOnut: Manual
The donut economy is one of the possible alternatives to the current economic model. Get started in your classroom with various methods from this collection.
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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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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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School vegetable garden manual
We eat all day long, but many children do not know that corn, strawberries and lettuce were once small seeds.
Through the school vegetable garden you can introduce children to the wonderful process from seed to plant. The school vegetable garden is …
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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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Children's books about how the brain works
A list of books about how the brain works.
The way the brain works is very complicated. However, it can be very useful to talk to children about how the brain works. If you start using mindset methods or would like to get started with a growth …
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Recognize who I am
The new field guide Recognize who I am by nature illustrator Jasper de Ruiter contains more than 57 recognition maps of plants and animals in the Netherlands. This makes naming species a lot easier.
With these accessible recognition cards you quickly …
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