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Aug 15 2022 Bio soap production creates jobs for women and helps preserve the environment
Sjenica, a town in Western Serbia, is surrounded by nature reserves on all four sides. One of these nature reserves is the Uvac Special Nature Reserve – home to the largest griffon vulture colony, a protected bird species nesting in…
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Aug 15 2022 Innovations reduce CO2 emissions and increase Serbia’s resilience to climate change
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) awarded today the most successful innovators who have put into practice the solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, making Serbian towns and municipalities more resilient to climate change.
These…
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Jul 08 2022 The crowdfunding campaign for the first solar power plants at Stara planina has started
In cooperation with the locals of the Stara planina mountain villages Dojkinci and Temska, as well as the town of Pirot, the Elektropionir Energy Cooperative launched the “Solarna Stara” campaign for crowdfunding the construction of cooperatively owned solar power plants.…
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Jan 10 2022 How the First Digitized Farm in Serbia Increased Yield Despite Drought
Outside the village of Belegiš, a dusty road across dry, cracked land, surrounded by dried maize fields, leads to a green oasis on the field crop farm of Nikola Lončar. This farmer, born and raised in Belegiš, is the first…
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Nov 06 2021 Celebration of the World Food Day
World Food Day is celebrated all over the world on October 16. through various actions and manifestations. This global event marks a day calling for worldwide awareness and collective action to combat the issue of hunger and ensure healthy diets…
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Sep 21 2021 THE FIRST ALGAE AIR PURIFIER IN SERBIA
The first urban photo-bioreactor in Serbia, “LIQUID 3”, has been placed in front of the Municipality of Stari Grad in Makedonska Street in Belgrade. This “liquid tree”, as it is called at the “Institute for Multidisciplinary Research” of the University…
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Aug 23 2021 How do you light a lightbulb with food waste?
Do you ever think about what happens to the scraps we throw away during food preparation, such as vegetable peels and eggshells, or to the uneaten bits we scrape from the plate into the garbage can?
While shopping, do you wonder…
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Jul 08 2021 Six innovative bio-waste management ideas received financial support
Six innovative solutions that will contribute to the reduction of generation, as well as the reuse of biodegradable waste in Serbia, have received co-financing funds for their implementation in practice.
These solutions were selected under the “Bio-waste Management Challenge Call” organized…
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Apr 09 2021 How both the environment and the citizens of Šabac pay lower price for heating?
In Šabac, the center of the Mačva district in Western Serbia, 10,000 out of 21,000 households still use solid fuels – coal and wood for heating. Clouds of smoke from their chimneys are among the main sources of air pollution…
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Mar 25 2021 The Digital Platform for Circular Economy has started working
The Chamber of Commerce of Serbia (PKS), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) have founded the Digital Platform for Circular Economy (CE-HUB). As it was explained at the online conference during the launching…