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An overview of interesting links to improve your knowledge on bio-polymers can be found here:

Bio-polymer: A polymer can be called a bio-polymer if it consists (partly) of bio-based renewable materials and/or is in some way biodegradable.

Biobased: A product that is composed, in whole or a significant part of biological products or renewable domestic agricultural materials which can include plant (including forestry), animal and marine materials. Source: USDA, Section 9002 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.

On 17 and 18 november 2011 an international US-Frisian workshop takes place in Leeuwarden. Focus of the workshop is to find Innovative Solutions in Water and Energy Technology for Quality of Life.  

An energy system that relies on fossil fuel is not sustainable. Emissions, such as carbon dioxide, nitric oxide and corpuscles, affect the climate and pollute the air. Furthermore, the supply of oil, coal and natural gas is located a few places worldwide, which can give rise to geopolitical conflicts for access to these areas. This is not a local issue for Tjörn, nor even a national issue for Sweden, but a global issue that in the end is about the survival of the earth as we know it.

Distributed Economies (DE) is a concept that has been developed as a response to current industrial production systems, which promotes the development of small-scale, flexible units that are synergistically connected with each other and make use of local resources. DE also strives for innovative regional development strategies. In this case the islands are defined as small-scale operating entities that are brought together into networks offering the advantage of being much more flexible and resilient to respond to change.