Connecting the Circular Economy to your home life (and work) Just what is the Circular Economy and what does it mean for the choices you can make at home to support combating climate change? Circular@Home is a free and open week-long challenge to inspire action on Climate Change through a circular lens #CircularHomeChallenge As part […]
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New Circular Economy Action Plan shows the way to a climate-neutral, competitive economy of empowered consumers / citizens On the 11th of March, the European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan – one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. With measures along the entire life
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What Are We Doing About Our Ocean Plastic Problem? The great plastic debate is never far from my mind (perhaps for many), with the UN’s World Oceans Day, seeing the Clean Waves Project “Advertising” display by Old Street Roundabout in London and speaking with the documentary makers of Uma Gota when on holiday in Brazil. It
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Sustainability Tips to Support Everyday Change What are the sustainability tips and steps you can take day-to-day to support moving to a more sustainable, resourceful and regenerative lifestyle (in Reading and beyond)? Did you watch Blue Planet 2 ? Perhaps you were shocked by the large-scale coral bleaching of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef or on hearing
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I just wrote a quick email to someone that I’d meaning to do for a while but hadn’t had time……..(sorry). It made me reflect and appreciate the number of amazing projects, initiatives and organisations working on really important and meaningful “stuff”. Thought I’d share as a reminder….. and this was just a quick list…. and yes, sorry, fairly
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This week I’ve been reminded on thoughts around transparency and building action, the need for more explicit storytelling, connecting and consideration of design consequences. This has been instigated by both managing to visit the Scarcity Waste Exhibition at Somerset house ( well covered in this People Tree blog ) and the photo compilation in the Guardian on
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Well this has been an interesting festive season for considering values and framing, it seems that more and more of us are regaining consciousness to some of our system fuelled consumer traits….from the inset of Black Friday, so called zombie TV dashes (are we going to also celebrate Thanks Giving next year?) to the hidden online cyber monday. To
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Time to Rethink the Bell Curve? As a product designer I’ve always struggled in my mind with innovation and the appreciation of the amazing new designs and technology constantly released. alongside the amount of stuff this creates. Their tantalising promises to create ease and simplify life, promising to speed up how fast we can find and get to places,
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