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Globe Forum is a marketplace for sustainable innovators, entrepreneurs and investors. Plantagon was invited to take part in the Globe Forum Facilitator Program. We proudly attended the Globe Award Gala, the Globe Forum itself and finally won the “Innovator Idol” competition arranged by Globe Forum and Patrick Dixon.
We warmly thank the good people at hard working Globe Forum for giving us the chance and helping us reach out with our message and our innovation!
The innovator Åke Olsson with Chief Oren Lyons, Chief Vincent Johnsson and Alan Shenandoah – all from Onondaga Nation.
The Swedish Plantagon boardmembers Leif Sieurin (left) and Michele Di Dato (right) together with the innovator Åke Olsson.
The Plantagon Chairman of the Board Chief Oren Lyons talking to Swedish Crown Princess Victoria.
Plantagon Chairman of the Board Chief Oren Lyons, Plantagon CEO Hans Hassle, Mrs. Karin Hassle.
Follow up after day 1 at Globe Forum.
Follow up after day 1 at Globe Forum. Climate researcher Phd. Anders Modig – one of our important friends at SWECO - is seen to the left of the Plantagon Non-Profit Chairman of the Board, Göran Pettersson.
After winning the “Innovator Idol” competition. From left: Plantagon CEO Hans Hassle, Plantagon Non-Profit Association Chairman Göran Pettersson, innovator Åke Olsson, Plantagon boardmember Michele Di Dato with his daughter Michaela. Showing back is Chairman of Globe Forum Mr. Gunnar Rylander.
On Friday 7 June 2009 The Plantagon Greenhouse was elected most sustainable innovation during the “Innovation Idol” competition arranged by Globe Forum and Patrick Dixon in Stockholm. Competing was hundreds of innovations from 36 countries. The Greenhouse was presented during the 60 and 120 sec “Elevator Pitches” by our CEO Hans Hassle.
During Globe Forum in Stockholm we met these exciting companies and entrepreneurs. Check them out too!
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Vironova combats and prevents the spread of viral diseases
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Solarus effective solar panels
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For Swedish press release klick here.
The vertical greenhouse could soon be a natural feature of cities around the world, thanks to the Swedish company Plantagon International in association with Sweco. This Thursday, the innovation will be presented at the Globe Forum investor conference in Stockholm. In the vertical greenhouse, it will be possible to grow local and eco-friendly crops in an urban environment.
While the global population continues to expand at a rapid rate, 80% of all land suitable for crop production is already being used for other purposes. With traditional farming practices, the Earth’s arable land will not be sufficient to produce enough food for this growing population. In response to this challenge, Plantagon has collaborated with the consulting engineering company Sweco to develop a vertical greenhouse for the urban environment.
“We need to find alternative ways to farm locally and space-efficiently. By the year 2050, 80% of people on Earth will live in urban centres,” says Hans Hassle, founder and CEO of Plantagon.
“We have therefore developed a greenhouse that enables us to farm ecologically in the middle of an urban environment. Sweco has helped us to study the technical systems that will make the greenhouse work. Within three years we plan to have the first facility up and running in a major city.”
“It has been a considerable challenge for us at Sweco. Our goal has been to find technical solutions that make it possible to grow crops with high quality and good operating economy,” says Stephan Stålered, a consultant at Sweco.
The concept behind Plantagon’s vertical greenhouse was created by the Swedish innovator and eco-farming expert Åke Olsson, and has been further developed by the consulting company SWECORP Citizenship AB together with North American Indians of the Onondaga Nation.
Contact
Plantagon: Hans HASSLE, CEO of Plantagon, telephone +46 709 17 94 00
Sweco: Stephan Stålered, consultant at Sweco, telephone +46 734-12 65 34
About Plantagon
Hans Hassle is founder and CEO of Plantagon. For many years, Hassle has been active in the debate on good corporate citizenship and sees Plantagon as a concrete example of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Plantagon is owned by the consulting company SWECORP Citizenship AB together with the Onondaga Nation. The Onondaga Nation is represented by Chief Oren Lyons, one of the North American Indians’ most influential leaders. Lyons is a highly sought-after advisor in the areas of environmental conservation and human rights, and long served as an advisor and inspirational speaker to multinational corporations, governments and the United Nations.
Åke Olsson is one of the pioneers behind Swedish ecological farming, and has been active for many years in efforts to promote environmentally sustainable development of society.
About Sweco
On behalf of Plantagon, the consulting engineering company Sweco has worked on the structural design of the greenhouse and planning of the production system.
Sweco is an international consulting group with combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture. Sweco has 5,500 employees in 10 countries and recorded annual sales of more than SEK 5.5 billion in 2008. The company has projects currently underway in some 80 countries worldwide.
In February 2009 Plantagon was elected into the Globe Forums Sustainable Innovators 100. A two-day conference is currently held in Stockholm which has generated a mention in the Swedish morning paper Dagen Nyheter. Urban greenhouses may soon be a reality.
The Plantagon Greenhouse will dramatically change the way the world
produce ecological and functional food. It allows us to produce ecological
with clean air and water inside urban environments, even major cities,
cutting costs and environmental damage by eliminating transportation
and deliver directly to consumers.
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