Originally written by Dr. Natalie Beinisch-Co-Founder at Circular Economy Innovation Partnership. As excitement about the Circular Economy grows so too do calls for...
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Limit to decouple: The rebound effect.
Image source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) In the middle of the 19th Century, the economist William Stanley Jevons started...
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Circular Economy: A potential thrombolytic for global supply chains?
by Meletios Bimpizas and Prof. Andrea Genovese(University of Sheffield, Management School) So, the “Capitalist Thrombosis” linked to the Suez Canal crisis...
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs: Critical factors to the institutional uptake of the Circular Economy.
Image Source: European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. [Fred Marvaux/ © European Union 2020 – Source : EP] In 1990, David Pearce and Robert Kerry...
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Is there life beyond GDP?
How should we measure economic performance and success? We keep using GPD and economic growth and we keep ignoring all the critiques that point out how wrong are both...
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Trust is key
According to the keynote speakers on the first day of the MCAA 8th Annual Conference, collaboration, connection, and trust (with peers and community) play...
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Kandinsky and the Circular Economy
Guest blog post by Sofia Greaves, PhD Researcher in Italian Modernism and urban planning at University of Cambridge Recycling is typically understood through...
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Is Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth and Circular Economy Action Plan going to spread prosperity or concentrate it?
The economic development, social cohesion and political stability in the EU have been imperiled by the regional[1] economic divergence [1]. The last 50 years have...
Read moreVideo Presentation: Circular Economy Paths In The Olive Oil Industry
Amos Ncube presents his research, entitled ‘Circular Economy Paths In The Olive Oil Industry: A Life Cycle Assessment Look Into Environmental Performance And...
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Is there life beyond GDP?
by Josep Pinyol How should we measure economic performance and success? We keep using GPD and economic growth and we keep ignoring all the critiques that point out...
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You may want to change the way you buy clothes…
What would you do if you knew that behind the clothes you wear… …there are low-wage workers without basic rights, people dying from diseases caused by chemicals and...
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Furniture Refurbishment: what about social implications?
IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, recently announced a furniture buy-back and resell scheme offering customers vouchers to spend in store. The scheme...
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