The Journey of Setting up a Reuse and Repair Centre – a Solution for a Circular economy
By Sophie Unwin, Reconomy Project
As consumers, we are taught to be dissatisfied with what we have.
Tag: circular economy
The Circular Economy meets The Access Economy
By Sharon Ede, Post Growth Institute
What would we be capable of if we combined the existing strength of the Circular Economy with the emerging juggernaut of the Access Economy?
Scientists vindicate ‘Limits to Growth’ – urge investment in ‘circular economy’
By Nafeez Ahmed, Guardian Earth Insight blog
A fundamental reorganisation of the way societies produce, manage and consume resources could support a new high-technology civilisation, but this would entail a new "circular economy" premised on wide-scale practices of recycling across production and consumption chains, a wholesale shift to renewable energy, application of agro-ecological methods to food production, and with all that, very different types of social structures.
Restart community repair
By Ugo Vallauri, Transition Network
How many of you have something electrical or electronic broken at home? Something that not only you don't only know how to repair yourself, but also don't know who could repair it for you? Or perhaps, the person who claims they could fix that printer or digital camera is quoting you a price higher than what you would pay for a new device.
Economics – Dec 18
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Against growth •How do you disruptively innovate a whole economy? •Where next for the circular economy? •Economists and the One-Percent