Circular Coffee + Conversation with Oliver and Monika from Re3 waste and recycling partnership 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 […]
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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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Eco Insights: Snapshots of Sustainability in Brazil Little observations, experiences and sustainability connections made during a recent holiday in Brasil in March 2018. From containers made from nature to plastic on the beach and circular economy discussions. Disclaimer: I’m afraid the Amazon, Football, Carnival and Rio do not feature, so perhaps a different taste of
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Open Source Circular Economy is here! Good design is open! The OSCEdays London team is inviting you to take part in the first Open Source Circular Economy days (OSCEdays) 2015, a global design challenge on open source circular economy. The London event will be held at the Fab Lab London from the 12th to 14th
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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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Quick overview notes from Wrap’s Resources Limited conference today. Key takeaways – the examples and ideas are out there from Ifixit online to LG Electronics repair stations in South Korea, it’s about informing, profiling, supporting and scaling. Oh and some are still chanting the give the consumer what they want………..However isn’t this just a cyclic system
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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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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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So it all started with a bottle of Prosecco……. (probably a lot of plans, challenges and ideas have started out like that, or similar), a challenge for a great cause, a gift to former colleagues and friends and a chance to get creative for myself. Why corks? The first ideas for this began a few years
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