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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
A sweeping “circular economy” bill in the California legislature aims to drastically reduce plastic waste and boost domestic recycling.
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.
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.
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.
By Erik Assadourian, John Mulrow, Resilience.org
But advocates of the circular economy rarely grapple with a central truth: the circular economy depends on a significant and sustained period of economic degrowth. Instead they tend to focus on innovations that deliver efficiencies and unlock new economic opportunities.