What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 54 Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric
By Vicki Robin, Kate Raworth, Roman Krznaric, Resilience.org
Together, Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric address the one core question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Tag: circular economy
A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals
By Sarah Tranum, The Conversation
In a circular food economy, food waste becomes valuable, affordable healthy food becomes accessible to everyone and innovation uses a regenerative approach to how food is produced, distributed and consumed.
Nothing wasted: Industry as an ecosystem
By Trevor Decker Cohen, Shareable
When we learn from the way nutrients are constantly broken down and repurposed in natural systems, we find opportunities for a circular economy everywhere.
Circular Economies & Regenerative Cultures
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The diverse bioregionally focussed and globally collaborative regenerative cultures of the future will meet their needs in circular economies based on regeneratively grown biomaterials processed by renewable energy at a bioregional scale.
5 ways to achieve circular development on the local level
By Elizabeth Carr, Shareable
Put simply: the circular economy means understanding that everything is a resource to be kept in circulation. There is no garbage or waste.
A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath
By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable
The pandemic has created many challenges for skills exchanges and other sharing initiatives that rely on person-to-person contact.
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
By Kris De Decker, Low-Tech Magazine
Not buying new laptops saves a lot of money, but also a lot of resources and environmental destruction.
How we went from “makers” to “trash-makers” – and how to get back
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Why do we have so much stuff? Why is it so hard to find good stuff? And when our cheap stuff breaks, why is it so hard to fix it?
New California Bill Could Revolutionize How the U.S. Tackles Plastic Pollution
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
A sweeping “circular economy” bill in the California legislature aims to drastically reduce plastic waste and boost domestic recycling.
Managing a Post-Growth Economy: Circularity, Productivity and Inequality
By Emanuele Di Francesco, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
A conversation between Emanuele Di Francesco and Tim Jackson, discussing post-growth concepts of a circular economy, the limits of labour productivity and the dynamics of inequality.
What a Waste
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Why not make the economy circular, with waste from one process feeding into other production processes, thus dramatically reducing the need both for resource extraction and for the dumping of rubbish? We should mimic nature: it’s a central ideal of the ecology movement, with roots in indigenous wisdom worldwide.
How Circular is the Circular Economy?
By Kris De Decker, Low-Tech Magazine
The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without destruction or waste. However, the concept only focuses on a small part of total resource use and does not take into account the laws of thermodynamics.