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The repair economy on your block
The repair economy on your block A neighborhood repair table can keep useful goods in circulation while helping people share skills and avoid replacement costs. […]
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The Benefits of Circularity and Whole System Design
Circularity and Whole-System Design What is wrong? The dominant economy remains based on extraction, short product lifespans, excessive consumption and disposal. Waste is treated as […]
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Permaculture Defined
Permaculture provides the understanding of whole system design, interconnection and interdependence. Here’s a lively conversation with Alan Enzo of Permaculture Education.
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Materials–From Take-Make-Waste to Circularity
Our current methods of production are geared for constant consumption, and are based on endless extraction, built in obsolescence with short life-cycles, which then lead […]
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Transforming Production toward Circularity
What is wrong? Most materials and manufacturing systems remain linear: extract resources, manufacture products, consume them and throw them away. Valuable materials are lost as […]
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Transforming Production: From extractive to circular design
THE CASE FOR A NEW MATERIALS AND RESOURCES SYSTEM From extraction, exploitation and dispossession to regeneration, shared prosperity and community ownership What if we redesigned […]
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Circularity: Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, addresses the Meaning Conference of business people for change, in Brighton, England, in 2017. She explains the framework she […]
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Lessons from a Systems Thinker
Tom Bosschaert is the founder and director of Except Integrated Sustainability, a Netherlands-based innovation, design, and development consultancy focused on building systemic solutions for a sustainable […]
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Circular Systems Are Restoring Health—From Materials to Communities
📣 Call for Submissions Why it matters: The way materials are made, used, and discarded directly shapes human health and planetary health. Around the […]
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Water Circularity & Nutrient Recovery: Closing the Loops That Sustain Life
Imagine a world where water never becomes “waste.” Where every drop is reused. Where nutrients don’t go down the drain — but return to the […]
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Plastics with an Expiration Date: Bioplastics & Circular Polymers
What if plastic didn’t last 400 years? What if bottles, wrappers, utensils, packaging, and foams didn’t turn into microplastics floating through rivers, oceans, soil, and […]
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The Circular Built Environment: Zero-Carbon, Zero-Waste Construction
What if the buildings we live in… didn’t destroy the planet while they’re being built? What if construction didn’t mean waste piles, carbon pollution, and […]
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Circular Cities: Urban Systems Designed for Flow
What if cities didn’t function like machines that consume and discard… but like ecosystems that circulate and regenerate? What if buildings breathed, transit loops connected […]
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Circular Manufacturing: Repair, Remanufacture & Product-as-a-Service
What if the stuff we own didn’t break after two years… because it was designed to last twenty? What if phones, appliances, tools, and electronics […]
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Designing Out Waste: Circularity 101 for Communities
What if I told you that waste… isn’t natural? In nature, there is no landfill. No garbage trucks. No “away.” Every leaf, every drop, every […]
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Building Infrastructure for Planetary Regeneration:
Building Infrastructure for Planetary Regeneration: Stuart Cowan, Chief Scientist at the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), presents a powerful opportunity to explore the frontiers of regenerative […]
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Smarter Cities for Efficiency and Quality of Life
As a smart(er) cities researcher–and the host of What’s the Future for Smart Cities Podcast, Hungarian-born Australian, Fanni Melles is on top of her game […]