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Permaculture Education
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 to waste. Transforming our systems to meet the challenges of the day require a revised […]
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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 waste, products are often difficult to repair or reuse, natural resources are depleted, communities absorb […]
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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 an unavoidable outcome rather than evidence of poor design. Energy, water, food, materials, housing and […]
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Towards Affordable and Renewable Clean Energy Systems
Transforming Towards Clean and Renewable Energy What is wrong? Energy systems remain centralized, polluting and vulnerable to price volatility, supply disruptions and extreme weather. Communities frequently pay for energy without having ownership, control or influence over how it is produced. […]
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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 the way humanity obtains, produces, uses, shares and recovers the materials that make modern civilization […]
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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 has developed for living justly within the means of our planet and gives examples of […]
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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 society. He founded Except in 1999 at age 19 with a mission to connect science, […]
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Former U.N. Foundation leaders reminds us what we can do, now:
Chuck Woolery has spent decades working at the intersection of hunger, child survival, global health, peace, and international cooperation. Through his work with various organizations, including United Nations communities and global civil society networks, he has helped advance the practical […]
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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 world, communities are rebuilding production systems to be circular, local, and regenerative—reducing pollution, restoring ecosystems, […]
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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 soil. Where wastewater isn’t a liability… but a renewable resource that generates energy, fertilizer, and […]
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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 even our bodies… …but simply returned to nature? Or better yet — what if plastics […]
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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 materials thrown “away” — but regeneration, reuse, modularity, and long, circular life cycles? What if […]
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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 people without pollution, materials flowed like nutrients, and waste didn’t exist because it was designed […]
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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 were fully repairable… easy to upgrade… and built to be remade over and over again? […]
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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 organism becomes food for something else. The only place where waste exists… is in human-designed […]
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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 design, systems thinking, and whole systems transformation. Cowan is known for connecting deep ecological intelligence […]
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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 and understands the smart cities movement like no one else. Her research–and her podcast–has enabled […]