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.”
Tag: circular economy
From Fish Waste to Community Wealth
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.
Facing Mexico’s zero-waste challenge
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.
Throwaway people or valued environmental service providers?
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.
Bringing Degrowth and Commoning to Fashion
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.
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?”
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.