By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I’ve found it difficult to find a job that does not produce more waste than goods, that does not contribute to pollution and degradation of our planet, and that does not perpetuate social systems of domination and violence.
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 Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
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.