Author Archives: zapico

Seasonal Green Recommender

This is a prototype of a web application which tackles the problem of lack of green awareness by recommending recipes based on seasonality, and addressing the gap in producer to consumer communication. Name of participant(s) in the team (SSH) Sevag Balkorkian Samuel … Continue reading

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Urban Fruit Initiative

The Urban Fruit Initiative is a cooperative social enterprise connecting fruit tree owners with too much fruit with those who want to help pick and share in the bounty. Fruit is redistributed amongst those involved with the bulk of it … Continue reading

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Last minute food

A prototype application that proposes gathering information from COOP supermarkets about the food that is about to expire and allow the users to explore recipes based on those ingredients and to facilitate the purchase. Team: Sotiris Salloumis, Gaye Georgia, Johan Zetterquist, Jacky Bourgeois, Sophie … Continue reading

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Cosecha

Cosecha is a crop planner for small scale farmers who want to plant a variety of crops. It allows to  experiment with how much of each crop to plant and it presents the total yield and revenue, plus the row … Continue reading

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EatX Stockholm 

Imagine no wasted food, by efficiently sharing the non-used raw materials after your meal preparation. Hacking Food Waste in private Homes or in community living spaces for students, would save water, phosphor, CO2, money as well as pollution from transport … Continue reading

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Green Game

Team SOMA MINERS developed a quiz-like application “Green Game”. The game includes statistical questions about sustainability related subjects, such as the percent energy used in residential and public places or the distribution of water usage to the sectors. This aims to illustrate the potential contributions … Continue reading

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Yenergy

Team GREEN developed Yenergy concept for a map that shows efficiency rate of each building for anyone. People would use the map when buying an apartment, searching for job, or in tourism. It would be a combination of Google maps, eat.fi, Booking.com, with … Continue reading

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NENergy

Team FINN COUNTDOWN won the best business solution award with the NENergy social app concept to challenge your friends and colleagues to save energy in daily routines. NENenergy is innovative use of social media where you can track down little or big things … Continue reading

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Tehomenu

Team NG CANDLE won the second best team award with their Tehomenu  solution for an Establishment’s Energy Use for advertising. Since communicating Big Data to people for sustainability has proven to be very challenging, their platform uses, in this case, VTT data to empower people and the … Continue reading

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Sortris

Team PI won the overall best solution award with the webapp game Sortris. This game educates people to recycle in a correct way. They got their recycling bins from the Aalto’s “Recycling on campuses”. Video of the presentation to come soon. Team members: Pekka Toiminen Juha Rantanen … Continue reading

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