ESRs’ Blog

by Azar Mahmounmgonbadi Reyt Repair is a community repair shop based in Pitsmoor (Abbeyfield House, S4 7AT), Sheffield, powered by a team of volunteers who are on...

A poem by Felipe Alexandre de Lima Synthetic material The packaging of our morning cereal Quite useful but also causing a pollution disaster Let us think about...

The capitalist economic system we are traversing has been ingrained by the imperative of economic growth – culturally, politically, and institutionally (Kovacic...

Text and illustration by Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe Research dissemination and communication gained much attention in the recent present. While scholars understand the...

By Felipe Alexandre de Lima and Azar Z. Mahmoum Gonbadi. Illustrations by Felipe Alexandre de Lima In this critical vignette, we want to engage readers with a...

Image source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) In the middle of the 19th Century, the economist William Stanley Jevons started...

Image Source: European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. [Fred Marvaux/ © European Union 2020 – Source : EP] In 1990, David Pearce and Robert Kerry...

According to the keynote speakers on the first day of the MCAA 8th Annual Conference, collaboration, connection, and trust (with peers and community) play...

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...

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...

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...

Stientje van Veldhoven, Minister for Environment of the Netherlands, said, “we need to look at the resources side” instead of base decisions on energy efficiency...

During my summer holidays in Switzerland, one topic caught my attention: domestic waste management. And I just realized that it is not the first time I’m writing...

Text by Sanja Arsova and Azar Mahmoungonbadi The First Day of the Roundtable event for exchanging knowledge between the 15 Early Stage Researchers, industries and...

The COVID-19 crisis is not only challenging our livelihoods, but also our perception about the current economic development model. Many governments have restricted...

Quarantine can make you forget what day it is. The lock-down imposed nationally on March 12, to shutdown most businesses and a ban on public gatherings in Italy, the...

The first ReTraCE ESRs Team Retreat took place at the University Parthenope in Naples, from the 16th to the 18th of December. This was a self-organised event that...

We began our sustainability journey at ReTrace project with the mission statement towards circular economy and our initiative “Zero Waste“, a corporate imperative, as...

On the 12th of December, the UK general election will take place. While the debate has been mainly focused on Brexit and the National Health Service, Environmental...

With my African background, I always try to connect my research and reading with my roots as well for future implementation/consultancy. Throughout my literature...

The new eco-design requirements regulation in the EU[1] is hailed as the first step to Right to Repair legislation across the EU. An interesting aspect of the new...

​Increasing the pace of new innovations and constantly releasing new products with small incremental changes is sometimes a strategy for firms in highly competitive...

For billions of years we have had life on our planet, but no species had such a catastrophic effect on life on the planet as humans now have. And that is for one...

The current linear economy has been strongly challenged in recent years regarding its merely focus on economic growth in spite of the resulting environmental...