The Systems Lens: Materials, Energy, Food & Health
What if the reason our solutions feel disconnected… is because our problems are connected? What if climate change, polluted water, unhealthy food, economic stress, chronic…
DESIGN: CIRCULARITY
Circular Justice: Black & Brown Communities Leading the Regenerative Future
What if circularity wasn’t just about recycling… but about justice? What if eliminating waste also eliminated toxic burdens, environmental racism, and the economic violence that…
Policy, Procurement & Governance: The Rules That Make Circular Economies Possible
We talk a lot about recycling. We talk about reuse, repair, and regeneration. But here’s a reality check. Circular economies don’t scale because individuals recycle…
Cultural Circularity: Indigenous Stewardship, Ancestral Cycles & Earth-Honoring Design
What if the world’s most advanced circular economy wasn’t invented in a lab… but carried in the memory of the land? What if the solutions…
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…
Electronics & E-Waste: Closing the Loop
What if your phone… didn’t become toxic waste the moment it broke? What if laptops, earbuds, TVs, and batteries were designed to be repaired, upgraded,…
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…
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…
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…
Industrial Symbiosis: Turning Waste Into Wealth
What if every factory, farm, brewery, data center, and food processor… didn’t create waste at all? What if the heat, water, chemicals, byproducts, and…
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…
Reuse, Refill & Zero-Waste Infrastructure
What if the future of packaging… was no packaging at all? What if getting shampoo, cooking oil, rice, detergent, coffee, and fresh food didn’t require…
Regenerative Materials: Borrowing from Nature’s Chemistry”
What if the next generation of materials didn’t come from oil wells… but from mushrooms, seaweed, agricultural waste, and trees? What if we could…
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…