By Aaron Fernando, Shareable
In the United States, the city of Portland, Oregon offers some leadership in terms of what this might look like in action. The city boasts a lively network of partnerships between nonprofits, businesses, civilians, and different bureaus and layers of government.
By ARC2020 Staff, ARC2020
Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop?
By Tansy Hoskins, Open Democracy
“When we talk about urban mining, we're talking about mining what we have already made and brought into an urban context.”
By Meenakshi. J, Hakai Magazine
A large population, an increasing demand for fish, a warm (and warming) climate, and the lack of action by local pollution control boards has led to an overflow of fish debris along India’s 7,500-kilometer-long coastline.
By Diana Leon, Esperanza Project
Grassroots organizations in Mexico are promoting inclusive recycling by helping usher trash pickers, or pepenadores, into the salaried workforce. In the endeavor, they draw on positive experiences around the developing world.
By Diana Leon, Esperanza Project
By collecting and separating reusable or recyclable materials of their own accord, unsalaried waste pickers relieve the growing burden of mismanaged municipal solid waste.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Through the organization Fashion Act Now, a growing band of dissident fashionistas want to make the clothing industry more ecologically responsible, relocalized, and culturally in sync with this moment in history, especially with respect to climate change, economic justice, and decolonialization.
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?”
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.