By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Why not make the economy circular, with waste from one process feeding into other production processes, thus dramatically reducing the need both for resource extraction and for the dumping of rubbish? We should mimic nature: it’s a central ideal of the ecology movement, with roots in indigenous wisdom worldwide.
By Wangũi Kamonji, Transition Network
James Kagwe, who runs a waste management collective called ‘Waste to Best’ in Naivasha Town in Kenya’s Rift Valley. His path has taken him from flower growing to street clean-ups, waste collection and waste management.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The desire to make our lives maintenance-free often creates unintended environmental and health consequences. Every decision to transfer a maintenance task to a chemical substance only complicates the goal of creating a healthy environment.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
By abandoning the duty of maintenance we owe to the objects in our lives, we are distancing ourselves from the physical world and essentially sending the entropy elsewhere for someone else to deal with, whether human or non-human.
By Cassandra Kuyvenhoven, Uneven Earth
In exploring these ideas, Lise tells an accessible and engaging story that you just can’t help but put your hands on.
By Karen Lynn Allen, Karen Lynn Allen blog
On a simplistic level, efficiency is maximum (or optimal) output with minimum waste.
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
In this essay I explore how assumptions of nature’s Scarcity and Abundance underlie our visions of sustainability, and our prescriptions for action.
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
Gleaning is an ancient tradition, deeply embedded in the agricultural world.
By Barnabé Binctin, Future Perfect
In Montreuil, the Collecterie resource center is fighting waste by recycling trash—and generating jobs.
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
Individualized recycling is a start but it is not doing nearly enough.
By Bill Sheehan, Upstream
Is eco-business leading us to ecological sustainability?
By John Thackara, Doors of Perception
What if sanitation is not just about the kit? If sanitation solutions cannot be mass-produced at will, like a box of software, what, then, is the alternative?