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Circular Coffee + Conversation – Liz Pearson of Love HeartWood

Circular Coffee + Conversation with Liz Pearson of Love HeartWood A Bi-weekly Circular Coffee + Conversation with a circular inspired individual or organisations, thinking and taking action on the circular economy About this Event Part of our bi-weekly Circular Coffee Conversations. They will be live, with a different guest every time and we will discuss different […]

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Circular@Home Challenge + Conversation

Circular@Home is a week-long challenge to inspire action on Climate Change About this Event Just what is the Circular Economy and what does it mean for the choices you make at home to support combating climate change? As part of the Reading Climate Festival, a week-long programme of free events to inspire action on climate

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A Quick Guide to Sustainable Design at London Design Festival

A Focus on Sustainable Design at London Design Festival The annual London Design Festival is soon to start. In 2018, design and many types of products (particularly of the plastic variety) have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A growing number of citizens, supported by various media, are increasingly questioning the need for many

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5 Ways We’re Tackling The Wave of Ocean Plastic

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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Urban Resilience, Entrepreneurship YES! and Surfing – Week 2

For 5 weeks over summer 2016 I was lucky enough to be one of the startup business coaches on the Climate KIC Journey Programme. See this previous post for more background and an overview here. Here’s a taster of the 2nd week of trips and inspiration in the Netherlands. The Netherlands – Week 2 Building Sustainably – Materials,

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Notes on: Material Autobiographies

On Monday I was lucky enough to be able to attend The Great Recovery workshop on Material Tracking and Tracing in a Circular Economy at the Fab Lab London. This was looking at examples from around the world that both raised the reasons for the need for this in the current system while also raising the

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Making the Invisible Visible

This year London exceeded safe legal air limits, in fact for the past 4 years they have been missing EU targets on air quality and are currently beginning to face up to the prospect of fines for this as the legal proceedings get underway. They have already been given an extra 5 years to comply, but

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A Sea Full of Trash (Rubbish)

Recently I received this invitation from a great website to share the blog below on ocean rubbish from Morgan Matus. This being an issue close to my heart and also coinciding with a number of other organisations and initiatives ongoing and emerging (including, BeachCare and the Ocean Friendly Design Forum, the RSA Great recovery Re-conference on

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Notes On – Old Stuff, New Stuff

An Overview of just some of the quirky London Design Festival offerings It was a busy and interesting last week where, as covered in Sustainable Tents and Talks, London got even more design focused with designers new and old exhibiting their new designs. Meanwhile Birmingham was home to Resource Waste Managements three-day conference and exhibition

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What a load of Rubbish

Ever wondered or thought about the scale and types of rubbish that would go through an institution or museum? No? Yes? Not really……. Well the artist Joshua Shoefer did and after apparently a lot of perseverance managed to get the Science Museum in London to as well. The concept itself sounds simple. Imagine a box with

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