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Fotis Fotiadis, ESD MPHIl 14-15, in Financial Times article about start up company "Entomics."

Fotis Fotiadis, ESD MPHIl 14-15, in Financial Times article about start up company "Entomics."

Submitted by Miss Sian Owen on Tue, 07/02/2017 - 14:32

Black soldier fly larvae help with a green food waste business

Fotis is one of 4 co-founders of a Cambridge recycling technology start-up company called Entomics. The four students met at an environmental hackathon organised by Cambridge university’s entrepreneurship club and came up with the idea of turning unwanted food into animal feed by feeding scraps to an army of black soldier fly larvae.

See FT article and Entomics website for more information.

 

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Context

The need to engage in better problem definition through careful dialogue with all stakeholder groups and a proper recognition of context.

Perspectives

An ability to work with specialists from other disciplines and professional groups acknowledging that technical innovation and business skills also must be understood, nurtured and combined as precursors to the successful implementation of sustainable solutions.

Change

An understanding of mechanisms for managing change in organisations so future engineers are equipped to play a leadership role.

Tools

An awareness of a range of assessment frameworks, sustainability metrics and methodologies such as Life Cycle Analysis, Systems Dynamics, Multi-Criteria Decision making and Impact Assessment.

 

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