Can urban mining help to save the planet?
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 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.
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.