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As Poland’s first eco-certified food bazar celebrates its tenth birthday, TFN explores the eco boom

Founded ten years back, Warsaw’s BioBazar currently lists 100 traders on its roll-call selling in excess of 10,000 products. Kalbar/TFN

Opened in November 2010, Warsaw’s BioBazar helped plant the seeds of change and spark a food revolution in the process. 

Poland rolls out new law enhancing anti-smog programmes

Credits and loans granted for ecological projects will enjoy repayment guarantees and sureties from a special fund set up under the amended act on supporting thermal modernisation, signed by President Andrzej Duda on Friday.

‘Eco musician’ makes world’s first carbon-neutral album

VIDEO: Pianist/producer Wojtek Szczepanik used 100 percent renewable energy when recording his piano section to offset the 78kg of CO2 in electricity and the 147kg of CO2 used in the complete production.

Warsaw one of Europe’s Top 10 eco-friendly cities, says new report

In a survey conducted by Essential Living, the Polish capital came in at number nine on the green ranking, sandwiched between Vienna at number eight and Barcelona.

Smog-eating mural goes up on Warsaw wall

The mural will have the same ecological effect as planting 720 trees.

Waste map, want not: zero-waste map points Kraków in a green direction

The new maps aim to promote local businesses and limit waste.

The natural look: hand-made cosmetics on a roll

Once small, the market for hand-made cosmetics is increasing as people go green.

Opole team come up with wind-assisted ‘eco-fence’

The Wind Panel was created to be the next generation of onshore wind turbine, going beyond current technologies available on the market for capturing wind energy.

Tree-mendous! Couple buy entire forest to save fauna and wildlife

With the help of Internet users, Mieszko and Karolina Stanisławski raised enough money to buy 5.53 ha of forest in the Low Beskids mountain range in south-eastern Poland. Now they are now thinking about buying a second one.

Poland’s first ecological golf course to tee off near Poznań

The 18-hole golf course spread across nearly 7000 acres near Poznań will use reclaimed water from a local sewage plant will and is expected to be completed by 2022.

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Moving documentary about diplomats who saved hundreds of Jews released with English subtitles

Making generous use of archival materials and featuring in-depth interviews with authors, historians, professors, survivors and Holocaust descendants, the one-hour documentary titled ‘Polmission. The Passport Mystery’ lays bare the scale of efforts undertaken by Poland’s government-in-exile to rescue the nation’s Jews from near-certain death.

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