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based in chile, zerocabin seeks to mimic naturally occuring systems, orienting its PV panel-clad roof like a leaf toward the sun.

In November 2019, the Slovenian parliament passed a motion to adopt an EIT Climate-KIC-led proposal called "A Deep Demonstration of a Circular, Regenerative and Low-Carbon Economy in Slovenia." The initiative is one of eight Deep Demonstrations launched by EIT Climate-KIC, which together offer a test bed environment for the ambitious, "1.5-consistent systems transitions" called for by IPCC reports, activists, national and European policy.

If words make worlds, then we urgently need to tell a new story about the climate crisis. Here is one vision of what it could look and feel like to radically, collectively take action.

Historically, indigenous knowledge around protecting biodiversity has largely been ignored by Western science. That's starting to change.

Adidas and Stella McCartney used vegan spider-style silk by Bolt Threads to create the Biofabric Tennis Dress, which can "fully biodegrade".

Brooklyn-based design studio Crème uses home-grown vegetables to produce a sustainable alternative to disposable coffee cups.

A pop-up restaurant that is built from recycled food packaging and that composts all of its leftovers has been set up at the WantedDesign Manhattan fair.

Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant for Lowlands Festival 2018 in the Netherlands.

RCA graduate Kosuke Araki has created a range of tableware from recycled food waste.

Chile-based designer Margarita Follert has created a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to single-use packaging, using raw material extracted from algae.

Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explains why "green growth" isn't enough to save the planet.

Indigenous feminists in Guatemala encourage women to speak out against male violence, and to heal and defend themselves as they defend their ancestral territory. Frauke Decoodt listens to their

Canals built before the Inca Empire may help manage Peru’s water supply.

A conference of urbanists set to convene next month aims to find out.

Not since Marx identified Manchester’s manufacturing plants as blueprints for the new capitalist society have our political economy’s fundamentals faced a more profound transformation. As structural crises beset capitalism, a new mode of production is emerging: commons-based peer production.

EIT Climate-KIC CEO Kirsten Dunlop emphasised the importance of systemic change as cities aim to go circular—that it will connect them to one another and thereby scale positive climate impacts globally—during the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) session, “The circular economy in cities,” last week.

This document is a synthesis of inquiry that incorporates ideas and inspiration from many people. It grew out of conversations with Federico Bellone, Eduard Mü…

You have probably seen the headlines “One million species threatened with extinction and humans to blame” and such like. But did you know, the UN study that lead to those headlines analysed the reasons we continue to lose species to extinction, and found a solution?

We've woken up to the reality of the anthropocene era and realised the catastrophic damage we've inflicted on the planet. Now we must develop a new form of architecture that can adapt to major environ…

Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity

Anarchism used to be bursting with utopian imagination. We need to get that visionary impulse back, and then get it to work creating things.

Une enquête présentée par L’observatoire société et consommation et le cabinet de prospective Chronos fait le point sur les aspirations résidentielles des Français. Plus d’un citoyen sur ...

Here’s how Royal DSM, Disney, Caterpillar, Philips and giants of sharing are already seeing the benefits of moving beyond the take-make-waste model.

We need to move from a system of waste to a system of reuse–an economy that’s a circle and not a line. Some businesses are getting closer to this ideal than others.

The Airbnb co-founder says companies have to do more that just business..

How to organize your design agency for Circular Design? This is not only about changing the design process, but also about questions like: How to get your peop…

Service-Based Business Models & Circular Strategies for textiles Circle Economy, September 2015 Helene Smiths, Gwen Cunningham, Jade Wilting, Chloe De Roos Fei…