The establishment of green floating islands or filters, at commercial scale, requires large quantities of plantlets for early full vegetation cover; plant requirements are usually estimated at 20-28 plantlets per square meter, which means a supply of 28,000 plantlets for 1,000 m2 filter.read more »
In the weekend of 15-16 September 2018, a constructed island of cattails in Manzanares river, Madrid, Spain, was the setting of the performance ‘Whale’ by Captain Boomer Collective from Belgium, which aimed at raising awareness on human effects on environmentread more »
On August 30th, an informative session was held about the project Life Biomass C + in El Arenal (Spain). The session was attended by partners from the irrigation community and the general public. The talk turned out to be quite didactic and from what we could see the attendees were quite grateful for the explanations.read more »
In the course of July the EPS boards with Typha plants were positioned in the Greek trial area. You can see the photos from the area after installation as well as photos during the works for the preparation of the area. We will keep you posted on the performance of the plants.read more »
UPM visited TECMA held in Madrid, 13-15 June 2018 with the aim of knowing the latest developments on environmentally friendly materials, materials that could be used to manufacture support trays for growing aquatic macrophytes as floaters.read more »
Last week, CERTH’s Dimitrios Kourkompas presented a poster and paper of our project at the EUBCE International Conference (26th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition) in Copenhagen. read more »