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In 1990, in the city of New York, the heart of capitalism, a group of people came together for one purpose: to ask God to inspire something that would make …

ECO123 spoke to the inventor of a completely new method of producing recycled paper, the biologist Dr. Philipp Althöfer (47). He studied natural sciences at the universities of Düsseldorf, Bonn …

Innovation and investment are the spices in our economic soup. You will need the following ingredients: 38,887 daily returns of the tabloid Correio da Manhã, 27,804 copies of the weekly …

Styropor (Styrofoam) was invented by Fritz Rudolf Stastny. He was born in the Czech city of Brno on 4th March 1908 and died on 25th May 1985 in Ludwigshafen in …

UmCoche is a project devoted to lifts in and between 11 cities in Portugal – Vila Real, Braga, Porto, Covilhã, Aveiro, Viseu, Coimbra, Leiria, Lisbon, Évora and Faro. A few …

The idea behind Nutrally is to make sweets that are as nutritional as possible. Its founders, Filipa Rocha and Silvino Henriques, fulfilled their dream when the raised 5,000€ through the …

“0% animal, 100% organic, 0% GM* and 100% vegetable” – this is the motto of Naturalmente, a new company producing home-made pies and bread. Ana Brazuna, with a degree in …

FF Solar Lda. from Aljezur, which has been based in southwest Portugal since 1989, has won the Energy Globe National Award 2013 for its product Home Kit Solution For African …

Portugal is a country of customs, many of them healthy and nice, but it seems increasingly distant from itself. The country is abandoning a number of traditions to the realms …

Specialist in the economics of happiness 33-year-old Gabriel Leite Mota is the first Portuguese person to hold a doctorate in the Economics of Happiness. The title was awarded to him …