The Renewable Energy and Waste Industries: 21st Century Confederates in Changing the Global Economy
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
The emissions prizes of both a renewable economy and a circular economy are huge.
Tag: circular economy
Capital Questions
By Erik Assadourian, Future Perfect
The University of the District of Columbia is leading the charge in transforming the food system in a city challenged with high levels of poverty, obesity, and population growth.
Making the Regenerative City
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The regenerative city applies ecological principles to urban redevelopment to make the city environmentally viable. It should make the city socially viable as well.
Emmanuel and Elizabeth at Pocheco: “Let’s change everything”
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
When you ring Pocheco, a company that makes 2 billion envelopes a year in their factory close to Lille in France, the holding message describes Pocheco as "the first ecolonomic factory in the world".
In the Throes of Change: An Interview With Douglas Rushkoff
By Erin Lynch, P2P Foundation
You don’t have to look too long or too hard to realize that the tech sector is in the midst of a fast paced, ongoing evolution.
The Circular Economy’s Missing Ingredient: Local
By John Mulrow, Yardfarmers blog
There is need for a new level of nuance — a local circular economy — one, in which materials, ideas and feedback flow cyclically and locally.
How Placemaking with “Bottle Bricks” Changes Lives
By Brennan Blazer Bird, Shareable
This is the story of how a simple idea forever changed my life, as well as the lives of many others.
Sustainability for Whom?
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
Is eco-business leading us to ecological sustainability?
Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
By Sven Eberlein, A World of Words
It seems pretty obvious that recycling, reusing, and repurposing materials we no longer need makes a lot more sense than burning or burying them, not just from an environmental, but an economic perspective.
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.
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.