The Master of Science in Industrial Ecology (IE) offers talented students from around the world the opportunity to enhance their expertise and work on the grand challenge of achieving global prosperity within planetary boundaries. What does this master’s programme Read more [...]
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MSc in Applied Circular Economy – Zaragoza, Spain
The master’s program in Applied Circular Economy, developed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Zaragoza and University of San Jorge, seeks to train professional experts who can give concrete and measurable answers to companies that want to innovate using circular economy Read more [...]
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MSc in Bioeconomy in the Circular Economy – Milano, Italy
The “Master Biocirce Program” offers an extensive training program for professionals interested in working within the bio-based goods and services industry using biological resources and bio-technological processes. It allows the professionals to go in depth in all the aspects related to the Read more [...]
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MSc in Waste Management and Circular Economy – Naples / Rome / Bologna / Ancona, Italy
The main purpose of the Master of Waste & Circular Economy Management is to raise new managerial figures with legislative, technical, and marketing skills, that may be beneficial not only the firm itself but also the environment. Managerial figures not Read more [...]
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Executive Master in Circular Economy Energy and Waste Management
La circular economy è considerata la quarta rivoluzione industriale. Anche grazie a importanti cambiamenti normativi a livello comunitario, sta influenzando in maniera radicale i processi produttivi e distributivi nella parte prevalente dei settori economici. Comporta l’innovazione dei business model con Read more [...]
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MSc in Circular Economy – Lahti, Finland
The Master’s programme in Circular Economy is offered by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) on the Lahti Campus. Face-to-face contact instruction mainly consists of intensive periods in Lahti on Thursdays and Fridays, which is well suited for people already in Read more [...]
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MSc in Risk Management and Circular Economy – Tampere, Finland
This Master’s programme aims to enable you to apply the ideas of circular economy and risk management into your professional work. You start the process with Designing new products and services by thinking about the whole life cycle and sustainability, Read more [...]
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AMIS, the Master’s Program in Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability
AMIS, the Master’s Program in Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability tackles the following themes – all of which are central themes of the EIT Raw Materials: -‘Substitution of critical or toxic materials in products and for optimized performance’ -‘Material chain optimization Read more [...]
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Master Programmes on Sustainable Materials
The SUMA master programmes aim to train tomorrow’s industrial engineers in collaborative work in a global world and gather some of the best educational programmes in the field of sustainable materials engineering in Europe. They stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership and focus on circular Read more [...]
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Establishing a Circular Economy for Leather Products PhD
The world’s first footwear recycling system was developed by a team of researchers at the Centre for Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling Technologies (SMART) at Loughborough. This footwear recycling system is able to recover different material streams from footwear including leather, Read more [...]
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PhD in Sustainable Catalysts and Polymers for a Circular Economy
This project will involve the recovery of raw materials from bio-based waste. The focus may be on formulating new “degradation-on-demand” strategies for the hydrolysis of bio-based and biodegradable materials, such as polylactic acid, or investigating the recovery of natural catalysts, Read more [...]
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PhD in Engineering the Circular Economy in the Built Environment – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
An opportunity has arisen for an outstanding Ph.D. student to join the REBEL (Resource Efficient Built Environment Laboratory) Group at Edinburgh Napier University to work at the interface between the circular economy and the built environment. The studentship will cover Read more [...]
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PhD position Closed cycles – Transition to a circular economy
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES), recently granted a four-year research program RUST within the context of the NWO program ‘Closed cycles – Transition to a circular economy’. RUST focuses on Re-USe of Read more [...]
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PhD in the Circular Economy Project on Developing Housefiles for Feed – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit PhD programme caters to a curious, creative and critical global student body. As one of the Netherlands’ leading universities, Vrije Universiteit’s central objective is to help our students develop the skills and abilities needed to tackle critical Read more [...]
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Doctoral Programme in Innovation for the Circular Economy at the University of Torino
Every year a call for admission will be issued, stating the number of available positions and fellowships (including grants from private/public centers and/or companies). Some of the fellowships may be reserved to foreign and or to candidates working for one Read more [...]
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PhD Summer School in Circular Economy
The Summer School brings together highly motivated PhD candidates from a variety of disciplines to foster entrepreneurial thinking, increase their awareness regarding circular economy opportunities and provide them with skills and tools to translate technological ideas into relevant and viable business initiatives. Read more [...]
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Internet of Materials
Category: ResearchBitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital currencies have caused a financial frenzy. But they have also stimulated a very interesting discussion about their potential to change the very meaning of money, the business landscape and, finally, our world. I am very happy Read more [...]
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3 Ways For India To Overtake Mature Economies
Category: ResearchAs sleeping economic giants like India grow, the worry is they’ll take on the same bad habits as advanced countries. Alternatively, emerging economies could take on more “circular” approaches, according to a new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Read more [...]
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7 ‘Cradle-to-Cradle’ Design Practices
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Category: ResearchIn order to enable the circularity of materials to either ecosystem, the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ principles encompass the following good design practices: Design all products, processes and objects so that after their initial use all materials can be fully re-used in Read more [...]
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Imagine 2050 report
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Category: ResearchAccording the Imagine 2050 report, companies across three key industries are standing in a mine of wasted materials and energy worth $5 billion, and that is only in the UK. The report was developed by Veolia, a resource optimisation consultancy that operates Read more [...]
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The 3 ‘Cradle-to-Cradle’ Principles – The New Framework
Category: ResearchThe Cradle-to-Cradle framework provides the principles to design eco-effective solutions on the basis of safer materials that can be perpetually cycle back to the technical or biological ecosystems. The technical ecosystem uses inorganic or synthetic man-made nutrients that can be used multiple Read more [...]
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EU Regulatory Barriers To The Circular Economy
Category: ResearchThis report, produced by Technopolis Group in consortium with Fraunhofer ISI, Thinkstep and Wuppertal Institute, is a direct contribution to the Action Plan on Circular Economy which was adopted by the Commission on 5 December 2015. The package aimed to help Read more [...]
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On The Road To The Circular Car – ABN Report
Category: ResearchObsolete industrial parts supplier, EU Automation has published an industry guide for manufacturers interested in making their production method more sustainable by contributing to the circular economy. The circular economy focuses on keeping resources at their highest utility and value Read more [...]
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5 Communication Secrets To Foster Sustainability
Category: Tools & MetricsHave you ever felt exasperated by your colleague’s unwillingness to recycle? You are not alone. Fortunately, social scientists have developed an understanding of what it takes to make people change their habits. This is a quick review from findings from Read more [...]
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Critical Raw Materials: Critical to the Circular Economy
Category: ResearchWhich materials are critical to the European Union? Identifying the critical materials to the European Union is critical. We also need to consider on what basis their criticality should be assessed and what are the implications of a material being Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Indicators – EASAC
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How should we measure the performance of the circular economy? This is one of the critical questions in the circular economy, since its objectives are substantially different from those in the traditional linear economy. This is why EASAC recently commissioned a Read more [...]
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Circular Cities & Circular Buildings: New Guidance
Category: ResearchNew guidance released from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) allows architects and designers pursuing the Living Building Challenge (LBC) to incorporate Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products and Material Health Certificate products into their projects. Circular Buildings, Step-by-Step of the Cradle to Cradle improvement Read more [...]
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Intelligent Assets – World Economic Forum
Category: ResearchThe report ‘Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the Circular Economy‘ illustrates opportunities for innovation and creativity across a spectrum of industries and sectors: it looks at how we manufacture and use electronics and advanced equipment, how we create our energy infrastructure, how Read more [...]
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Waste Streams = Profit Streams – The Case of Walmart & IBM
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Category: ResearchA new study by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation — the US Chamber’s research arm, Trash to Treasure: Changing Waste Streams to Profits Streams, says companies are not accurately estimating, measuring and managing their waste streams, which means they are Read more [...]
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The Circular Design Guide by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation & IDEO
The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO. The guide has been developed with input from leading businesses, over 400 students and specialist design institutions. The new tool includes 24 methods and a resource bank enabling change makers, entrepreneurial Read more [...]
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Potential Circular Economy Strategies at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Category: ResearchThe report “Potential Circular Economy strategies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics” was conducted as part of a research initiative at the Harvard University Extension School faculty aide research program. The report provides an overview of the key areas where the Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Toolkit for Policymakers
Category: ResearchThe Ellen MacArthur Foundation developed the Circular Economy Toolkit for Policymakers with the Danish Business Authority and Danish Environmental Protection Agency as key contributors to the pilot phase. The report Delivering the circular economy: a toolkit for policymakers describes a step-by-step methodology and demonstrates its Read more [...]
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Circular Economy in Cities around the World: A Selection of Case Studies
Category: ResearchCircular economy is a fast growing trend in municipalities around the world – but what are municipalities really doing to integrate the concept into their operations? Based on a five month intensive research project, the report “Circular Economy in Read more [...]
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The World’s 1st Standard for Implementing Circular Economy Principles: BS 8001
BSI have created a free to download Executive Briefing on BS 8001 Framework for implementing the principles of the circular economy in organizations – Guide. This Executive Briefing is aimed at executives, decision-makers and senior managers. It provides a short overview Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Business Model Toolkit by Forum for the Future
Category: ResearchForum For The Future is an international non-profit working with business, government and civil society to solve complex sustainability challenges. In partnership with Unilever, Forum for the Future have developed a toolkit identifying 10 circular business model archetypes. These archetypes distil their long-term Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Toolkit by IfM & Univ. Cambridge
Category: Tools & MetricsThe Circular Economy Toolkit, developed by the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Manufacturing, provides free materials for companies to help create sustainable products, services and business models. Read through the toolkit, complete the 5 minute opportunity assessment tool and run your own workshop to start Read more [...]
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Circularity Indicators
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The circularity indicators project was executed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation together with Granta Design. It has been co-funded by the LIFE financial instrument of the European Union. The objective of the Circularity Indicators Project is to provide indicators to estimate the circularity of products and businesses. Read more [...]
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Special Issue on the Circular Economy at the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University
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Category: ResearchInterest in the circular economy research has grown remarkably in recent years. Viewed as a concept by some, a framework by others, the circular economy is an alternative to a traditional take-make-dispose linear economy. The Journal of Industrial Ecology recently published Read more [...]
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Closing the Loop with a Circular Economy
Category: PodcastsOn this episode of the World Resources Institute Podcast, Stientje van Veldhoven joins Lawrence MacDonald to discuss the revolutionary idea of a circular economy, and its potential to reshape how we think about sustainable consumption. With a growing world population, Read more [...]
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Plastics And The Circular Economy [Policy Podcast]
Category: PodcastsWritten by Didier Bourguignon, © fottoo / Fotolia Plastics are everywhere in our daily life: they are used in packaging, buildings, cars, electronics, agriculture, and other sectors. Plastics production is now 20 times higher than in the 1960s, and is Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Podcasts: A New Dynamic, By Ellen McArthur Foundation
Category: PodcastsThis podcast series presented by Colin Webster explores the recently published book A New Dynamic 2: Effective systems in a circular economy. Each programme features an interview with authors of the book’s chapters. These leading experts on architecture, agriculture, design, Read more [...]
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Circular Economy & Google – The Podcast
Category: PodcastsIn this podcast, Circulate asks Jim Miller, Google’s Vice President of Global Operations, what the circular economy can do for Google. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival that the Ellen MacArthur Foundation organises: thinkdif.co. In this Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Podcast by The Green Exchange
Category: PodcastsStarting from a simple sustainability podcast in 2015, The Green Exchange is fast-becoming a new-generation
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European Clothing Action Plan
Category: Awards & FundingFive leading businesses are the first brands and retailers to sign up to the European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP), a Europe-wide sustainable clothing plan which launched in May 2016. The first ECAP participants are brands and retailers Bobo Choses, OVS, Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Package – European Union
Category: Awards & FundingThe European Commission has approved an investment package of €222.7m from the EU budget to support Europe’s transition to a circular economy. The EU funding will spur additional investments leading to a total of €398.6m to be invested into 144 new Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Investment Fund – Scotland
Category: Awards & FundingZero Waste Scotland is investing European Regional Development Funds to help small and medium businesses (SMEs) be resource efficient and create a more circular economy. The fund aims to accelerate the development of business innovation, including support for developing new technologies and the infrastructure Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Project – United States
Category: Awards & FundingThe circular economy is still a relatively new concept in the US market, but there are definite signs of business, large and small, buying into the idea and attempting to understand what it could mean for their models. A circular Read more [...]
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Circular Economy for SMEs (CESME) 4 year project – Europe
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Category: Awards & FundingThe Circular Economy for SMEs (CESME) project is a Europe-wide initiative created by the Business Development Centre in Denmark. It was established to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to future-proof their business in a green and more sustainable Read more [...]
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Towards Circular Fashion: C&A Foundation’s Request for Proposals
Category: Awards & FundingThe C&A Foundation is looking for innovative ways to bridge the gap in the implementation of circular business models in companies at all levels of the apparel value chain. Their request for proposals closes February 18, 2018 and there is up to 300,000€ per proposal available. The Challenge Read more [...]
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Kick Starter and Booster Funding – EIT RawMaterials
Category: Awards & FundingEIT RawMaterials aims to significantly enhance innovation rates in the raw materials sector through financial support as well as via network and collaboration activities. Each year they have an annual call for funding for the following topics: Upscaling projects: Developing/testing/demonstrating innovative technologies and products Read more [...]
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Private Finance For Energy Efficiency (PF4EE) – Belgium
Category: Awards & FundingPrivate Finance for Energy Efficiency (PF4EE) instrument is a joint agreement between the EIB and the European Commission which aims to address the limited access to adequate and affordable commercial financing for energy efficiency investments. The instrument targets projects which support Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Champion of the Year Named by Environcom
Category: Awards & FundingBritain’s largest independent Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) recycling and reuse company, Environcom, has won a prestigious business award in recognition of achieving the most comprehensive circular economic business model. In a modern world many items are deemed by Read more [...]
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Global Change Award – H&M
Category: Awards & FundingThe Global Change Award is an innovation challenge, initiated by non-profit H&M Foundation in 2015. By catalyzing early innovations that can accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, the aim is to protect the planet and Read more [...]
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Imagine Chemistry: The AkzoNobel Chemicals Startup Challenge
Category: Awards & FundingStart-ups, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world are welcome to exploit the knowledge of chemistry and solve several real-life chemistry-related challenges. AkzoNobel launches global chemicals start-up challenge: “Imagine Chemistry“ Imagine Chemistry, launched in conjunction with KPMG, Read more [...]
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The Circulars 2017
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Category: Awards & FundingIn 2013, the Young Global Leaders (YGL) Circular Economy Taskforce from the World Economic Forum came together to build universal awareness amongst business leaders that the circular economy represents a wealth of business opportunities which can reduce costs, increase profits and Read more [...]
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The Circulars 2018
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Category: Awards & FundingThe Circulars award program, the world’s premier circular economy award program recognizing individuals and organizations making the circular economy a reality, is open for the 2018 entries until 30th Sep 2017. In the two years The Circulars has been running, the program has Read more [...]
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Green Alley Award 2018
Category: Awards & FundingTo create a profitable company in the green economy, it needs more than just a good idea. Besides a lot of expertise and hard work, the support of partners during the foundation process is essential. This is where Green Alley Read more [...]
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Circular Fashion: The ‘Global Change Award’ Winners
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Category: Awards & FundingThe Global Change Award is an annual innovation circular fashion challenge – aiming to close the loop for fashion. They are looking for disruptive early stage ideas that add circularity throughout the whole value chain of the fashion industry – changing the way garments Read more [...]
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The Circular Design Challenge
Category: Awards & FundingThe Circular Design Challenge, led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and hosted by OpenIDEO, is calling upon a global community to submit ideas, innovations, and new technologies with the potential to transform the plastics economy. As part of the New Plastics Economy Innovation Read more [...]
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Biomimicry in Architecture, by Michael Pawlyn
Category: BooksIn the search for genuinely sustainable building design and technology – designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative – we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable Read more [...]
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Ecoagrocluster for circular economy MANAGEMENT MARKETING APPLIED, by Ecaterina Daniela Zeca
Category: BooksHumankind is itself a part of biodiversity in the world and our existence would be impossible without it. Quality of life, economic competitiveness, employment and security, all of these are based on this natural capital. Biodiversity is crucial to ‘ecosystem Read more [...]
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The Global Supply Chain: How Technology and Circular Thinking Transform Our Future, by Wolfgang Lehmacher
Category: BooksThis book provides readers an in-depth understanding of the inner mechanisms and principles of the global supply chain. Authored by the Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, it draws on a wealth of operational Read more [...]
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A New Dynamic: Effective Business in a Circular Economy, by Amory Lovins & Michael Braungart
Category: BooksUpward trending and volatile materials and energy prices, difficult credit conditions and the myriad opportunities of the digital revolution are combining to make a circular economy the key value driver for the coming decades. A New Dynamic makes the contemporary Read more [...]
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Biomimicry, by Janine Benyus
Category: BooksThis profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature Read more [...]
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The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows, by Ken Webster
Category: BooksThe Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows Where will prosperity come from in a global economy facing rising consumer demands, environmental challenges, volatile resource prices, and the end of easy credit? Ken Webster argues that our linear ‘take-make and dispose’ Read more [...]
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Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by Jim Collins
Category: Books‘This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more Read more [...]
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Building Revolutions: Applying the Circular Economy to the Built Environment, by Dave Cheshire
Category: BooksThe construction industry operates within a linear economy of make, use, dispose. Buildings are stripped out and torn down with astonishing regularity while new buildings are constructed from hard-won virgin materials. But raw materials are becoming scarce, and the demands Read more [...]
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Work Like Nature: Sustainability Lessons from Ecosystems for Your Job or Business, by Lea Elliott
Category: BooksDo you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott’s Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability Read more [...]
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A New Dynamic 2 – Effective Systems in a Circular Economy, by Ellen Franconi & Brett Bridgeland
Category: BooksThe second book of the series A New Dynamic reflects on the necessity to develop a whole-system approach to re-think our economy. This edition brings together thought leaders who can see beyond the boundaries of their respective areas of expertise, Read more [...]
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Circular Economy, Industrial Ecology and Short Supply Chain: Towards Sustainable Territories, by Delphine Gallaud & Blandine Laperche
Category: BooksIn contrast to the linear “take–make–dispose” model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is Read more [...]
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Bioremediation and Bioeconomy, by M.N.V Prasad
Category: BooksBioremediation and Bioeconomy provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including the ever-growing lack of water resources which are under immense pressure due to land degradation, pollution, population explosion, urbanization, and global Read more [...]
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab
Category: BooksFrom the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our lives. We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And this one will be unlike any other in Read more [...]
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Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things, by Michael Braungart & William McDonough
Category: BooksReduce, reuse, recycle’ urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, ‘cradle Read more [...]
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Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization, by Robert Ayres
Category: BooksThis book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary “progress.” The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent Read more [...]
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The Guide to the Circular Economy, by Dustin Benton, Jonny Hazell & Julie Hill
Category: BooksThe term ‘Circular Economy’ is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures – price-driven, political and environmental. Read more [...]
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Waste to Wealth: The Circular Economy Advantage, by Peter Lacy & Jakob Rutqvist
Category: BooksIn the second half of the 20th century we got better at extracting the earth’s resources. Much better. So much better in fact, that for 40 years, despite demand for natural resources growing, the cost of those resources decreased. Not Read more [...]
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella Meadows
Category: BooksIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis Read more [...]
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3D Printing With Biomaterials: Towards a Sustainable and Circular Economy, by a.J.M. Van Wijk & I. Van Wijk
Category: BooksThe book describes two system innovations that will revolutionize the economy: 3D printing and biomaterials. 3D Printing holds the promise to manufacture on demand, locally and with less waste and energy. It may use a wide range of material types such Read more [...]
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Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices, by Dayna Baumeister Ph.D.
Category: BooksThe Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices contains over 250 pages of our most current biomimicry thinking, methodology, and tools for naturalizing biomimicry into the culture. We believe there is no better design partner than nature. But biomimicry is Read more [...]
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Development of Circular Economy in China, by Jianguo Qi, Jingxing Zhao & Wenjun Li
Category: BooksThis book presents a detailed background to the circular economy in China, explores government measures to promote it in China’s market economy, and introduces the supporting laws and policies. The book goes on to describe, from a technology perspective, successful circular Read more [...]
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The Development of Eco Cities in China, by Juke Liu, Weiping Sun & Wenzhen Hu
Category: BooksThis book presents an in-depth study on and summary of the current practice and theories for the construction of eco-cities in China in the context of the country’s rapid urbanization. It argues that by 2020, 60% of China’s population will live Read more [...]
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The Sustainable Business, by Jonathan T. Scott
Category: BooksA new industrial revolution is slowly taking shape in the form of businesses that are learning to eliminate and prevent waste and do more with less in a bid to become more profitable and mitigate damage to the environment and society. The Read more [...]
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The Upcycle, by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Category: BooksFrom the authors of “Cradle to Cradle,” we learn what’s next: The Upcycle. “The Upcycle” is the eagerly awaited follow-up to “Cradle to Cradle,” one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living Read more [...]
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Products that last, by C.A. Bakker, M.C. den Hollander, E. van Hinte, and Y. Zijlstra.
Category: BooksProducts that Last starts where most books on product development end. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold, it disappears beyond the newness horizon. They are little aware of the opportunities that exist Read more [...]
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Book Review: The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows, by Ken Webster
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Category: BooksKen Webster, the author of “The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows”, has worked with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since January 2010. He has a background in economics education and environmental issues. Webster calls himself a generalist and emphasises how everything Read more [...]
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Book review – Sustainability in Fashion: A Cradle to Upcycle Approach
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Category: BooksThe book “Sustainability in Fashion: A Cradle to Upcycle Approach” explores different aspects and offers the most recent research in an easy to digest manner. More specifically it is a collection of academic articles outlining research regarding how sustainable fashion Read more [...]
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Economia Circular Holanda Brasil: da teoria à prática (Portuguese Edition)
Category: BooksThis is the first book on circular economy in Portuguese initiatied by the Dutch Consulate in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to highlight the learnings gained through the knowledge exchange activities carried out in partnership with the industry federation and its Read more [...]
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Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy, by Robert Brears
Category: BooksThis book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits. It emphasises the urgent need for these circular economies and to move away Read more [...]
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Favorite Circular Economy Competition run in the driest desert in the world – Chile
Sagasca (Chile)
Category: Awards & FundingTarapacá Circular® is an idea competition run by the Center for Innovation and Circular Economy (CIEC) and Tarapacá Labs. The organisations are launching the first call for open circular innovation focused on individuals with an idea or project that falls into the circular economy framework Read more [...]
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The Upcycle, by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Plano (United States)
Category: BooksFrom the authors of “Cradle to Cradle,” we learn what’s next: The Upcycle. “The Upcycle” is the eagerly awaited follow-up to “Cradle to Cradle,” one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living Read more [...]
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Economia Circular Holanda Brasil: da teoria à prática (Portuguese Edition)
São Paulo (Brazil)
Category: BooksThis is the first book on circular economy in Portuguese initiatied by the Dutch Consulate in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to highlight the learnings gained through the knowledge exchange activities carried out in partnership with the industry federation and its Read more [...]
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Circulab: A Tool to Design Circular Business Models
Paris (France)
Category: Tools & MetricsIn order to grasp all the opportunities offered by the circular economy and ensure the resilience of the activities, we need to design inclusive, dynamic and circular business models. CEC Member Circulab, is a design agency dedicated to help design a Read more [...]
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NZWC Circular Economy Business Toolkit
London (United Kingdom)
Developed by the National Zero Waste Council, a cross-sector leadership initiative to advance waste prevention in Canada. The Council is taking action on the factors that drive waste generation to support a high quality of life, environmental sustainability and economic prosperity Read more [...]
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Circular Economy Knowledge Hub
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Throughout the past 5 years, the Dutch social enterprise Circle Economy discovered countless inspiring and innovative case studies, articles, and reports that highlight the circular economy in practice. The company produced the Knowledge Hub, the go-to source for over 500 circular economy case studies Read more [...]
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Extremadura Circular Economy Strategy
Category: StrategiesThe Regional Government of Extremadura is working on a ‘Strategy for a Green and Circular Economy’ titled “Extremadura 2030”. The objective is to encourage the production of goods and services while reducing the consumption and waste of raw materials, water Read more [...]