The Impact of Circular Economy in Fashion: Isaac Nichelson In Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast
Isaac Nichelson is the Founder of Circular Systems SPC with 25+ years of experience as an innovator in the textile and apparel industry. Dinis Guarda interviews him in the latest episode of Dinis Guarda Youtube Podcast, powered by openbusinesscouncil, citiesabc, fashionabc, and sportsabc to discuss the latest innovations in fashion tech, circular economy and sustainability […]
Sustainability And Circular Economy: Global Initiative Formed To Push Responsible And Circular Electronics
More than 20 organizations have come together in a global initiative to tackle the social and environmental problems of electronics. The Circular Electronics Initiative aims to encourage organizations and consumers to take a more responsible approach to the electronic goods they use. One core activity of the initiative is the annual event #CircularElectronicsDay. “#CircularElectronicsDay has […]
The World’s Fastest Growing Waste Stream: E-waste In The Spotlight On International E-waste Day
International E-waste Day is an initiative aimed at reducing the burden that e-waste places on the environment and saving natural resources. To support educational and public awareness activities linked to the initiative, TCO Development has launched an e-waste quiz. In 2019, 53.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was generated worldwide, an increase of 21 […]
Video Interview: Prof Darryl Newport, Director of Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) – Green Economy And The Future of Cities
From his role as Director of Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at University of East London, Professor Darryl Newport is an experienced academic whose main areas of focus are sustainable materials, circular economy, green economy and everything in between. In this new series interview for citiesabc, host Dinis Guarda and Prof. Darryl Newport go through major […]
The Real Circular Economy
The idea of the circular economy has been growing in popularity in recent years. This has been further driven by the damage that the human race has done to ecosystems worldwide as a result of waste, and carbon emissions. The circular economy has underlying pretexts that would lead to the reduction of such issues. An […]
Earth’s Second Life: When the Circular Economy Comes to Save a Dried out Planet
Humanity dumps over 2.12 billion tons of waste every year. That number can be graphically represented as if “that waste was put on trucks, they would go around the world 24 times.” And if that wasn’t enough to start freaking out, The World Counts, a popular website where this info comes from, also mentions that […]
Building Blocks Of A Circular Economy
Something will mark 2017 forever: its climate disasters…From hurricanes to heat waves the world experienced a bit of everything. Every time we have a high-impact, catastrophic, extreme events occurring, people ask themselves, ‘Is this climate change?’”. Regardless of the different opinions the awareness that human-induced climate change is progressing is now part of mainstream consciousness. […]
How Blockchain And The Gig Economy, Are Revolutionizing What We Understand As Work
What we understand as work has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Remote working and increasing numbers of people working as freelancers or having their own small businesses, have all contributed for the falling apart of the 9 to 5 office hours, notion of labour. What we understand as work has changed dramatically, and […]
Blockchain The Evolution of the Internet, IoT and Circular Economy Part 3
With the advent of the so-called blockchain revolution, it is important to contextualise the permanent shifts and challenges that the Internet (and consequently the world) will be facing in a near future. Blockchain comes profoundly mixed with the Internet of Everything, and these novel technologies impact and shape new models of economics such as the circular economy and […]
Blockchain: the Evolution of the Internet, IoT and Circular Economy, Part 1
Blockchain – The Evolution of the Internet, IoT and Circular Economy, Part 1 When talking about the blockchain revolution, it is essential to contextualise the permanent shifts and challenges that the Internet (and consequently the world) will be facing in a near future. The combination of the blockchain technology and the Internet of Everything allows to create […]
Circular Economy and Blockchain-Driven Sharing Economy?
Circular economy, access Economy, or a new blockchain-driven sharing economy? The Circular Economy and the Access Economy are fairly recent concepts, considered by many to be more appropriate and accurate terms to describe what has become more widely known as the “Sharing Economy”. The foundations behind the idea of access rather than sharing are the […]
Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the Circular Economy Potential
With up to 50 billion connected devices predicted by 2020, a pervasive digital transformation is reshaping the economy. Intelligent assets is a key feature of the fourth industrial revolution, a revolution everyone is talking about. Will this ‘fourth industrial revolution’ lead to an acceleration of the extractive, ‘linear’ economy of today, or will it enable […]
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