Feedspot 15 Best Bioeconomy Blogs and Websites

SUSFERT is happy to announce that it was included on the Feedspot list as one of the 15 best bio-economy blogs and websites to follow for 2023.

According to the California-based content reader site, ‘The Best of’ Feedspot list was formed from thousands of blogs on the web, and was ranked by traffic, social media followers and freshness. Feedspot gathers and hosts content that has shown to have made an impact.

Among the top rankings were the leading bio-based media groups and organisations which have teams of journalists creating content. The number 1 ranking went to IlBioeconomista which is active in providing weekly blogs on bio-economy news, politics and business.

SUSFERT blog ranked 6th in January 2023

When the ranking was announced at the beginning of 2023 SUSFERT was placed at number 6. In June, 2023 it is ranked at spot 11. The Feedspot list can be viewed HERE.

SUSFERT is grateful to all its partners who have contributed to the enrichment of knowledge, results and content on this Website. It is celebrated as a major achievement for the research and innovation project.

Europe’s commitment to the bio-based economy

European Funding bodies have committed millions of public funds to further the bio-economy. SUSFERT is proud to be funded by the Horizon 2020 and Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE-JU) funding programmes.

There are many people around the world who are working hard to build and promote the bio-economy which means transitioning away from the fossil-based economy. One of those organisations is the European Forest Institute which was ranked just above SUSFERT on the Feedspot list.

EFI previously worked with SUSFERT Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication (DEC) partner RTDS-Group, which was also the DEC lead on the completed CBE-JU/Horizon 2020 forestry digitisation project Tech4Effect.

EFI contributed infographics for the TECH4EFFECT policy brief that addressed managing and harvesting European Knowledge and Technologies for our Forests of the Future, as well as focusing on how wood could be mobilised for the European bio-economy. The infographic The European Bioeconomy in Numbers is shared above because it shows the facts and figures of how European funding contributes to the growth of the European bio-economy, notably in employment.

European R&D funding supports bio-economy

Despite these efforts and achievements, it is useful to remind our readers that fossil-fuel use still dominates world energy use.

But every small step counts. SUSFERT contributed research, innovation and expertise towards developing bio-based coatings sourced from paper mill side streams containing wood-based lignosuphonates combined with enzyme technologies in search of alternatives to fossil-based coatings for fertiliser granules.

The positive news concerning the shift towards a greener transition is that most governments, organisations and companies know that they have to engage in sustainability. Greenwashing is not good enough because it attracts public scrutiny and criticism.

Increasingly, organisations, governments, shareholders, employees, environmental groups and the public demand that the green transition gathers pace. A major question that is often side-stepped is who will bear the cost of achieving the necessary, circular economy especially when fossil fuels and commodities are cheaper than sustainable ones.

The complexities involved in this transition will be interesting to watch — it may also involve quite a few sacrifices and even radical change — no one truly knows how this will be done.

The bio-economy and sustainability rests on three pillars — environmental, social and economic — all of which need to be addressed if we are to truly transition to a new economic system that is more respectful of nature, people and our planet.