The Circular Economy Show Podcast
Episodes
The power of information and data in our cities
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An all too familiar story is told about our data and how various organisations are capturing it, harvesting it, and using it in ways to influence us -...
The Role of Learning in the Transition to a Circular Economy
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How we think shapes the world around us, and our ways of thinking are formed through our learning. If we are to adopt a new economic model like the ci...
How the circular economy and Industrial Revolution can drive prosperity in Latin America
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Latin America didn't get much chance to participate in the first three Industrial Revolutions, besides being a supplier and exporter of valuable resou...
Flies: The unexpected answer to the food crisis
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can insect farming reduce the stress on fish stocks across the Southern Hemisphere? How do you even get 8.4 billion flies to live together and operate...
What is the circular economy? 3/3
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What can we do to start trying to think differently and to start thinking in a way that is more circular rather than linear? Joe Iles and Ellen MacArt...
What is the circular economy? 2/3
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does the circular economy look like? Joe Iles and Ellen MacArthur talk through the Foundation's butterfly diagram including examples of repair, r...
What is the circular economy? 1/3
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is the circular economy? Who's doing it? And what are some of the best examples of it in action? In part one of our what is the circular economy ...
Design in the Age of Digital with John Maeda
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you hear the word ‘design’, what images come to mind? Do you think of someone sketching products or creating a 3D model? A team making a prot...
How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist with Kate Raworth
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What is the goal of economics? Does GDP really tell us all we need to know about a country's wealth and well-being? Our guest in this show argues that...
Better products at better prices?
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is it people really want: a car, with all the costs of ownership and maintenance, or mobility, the service that car actually provides? A circu...
How can the circular economy work for people?
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The information technology revolution has only just begun, yet it is removing jobs faster than its creating them in a global economy which has falter...
What Goes Around...
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How well do you know the circular economy? It's not a new idea, but a term that has gone from relative obscurity only five years ago, to one which any...
Google and the Circular Economy
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Google believes that business has a key role to play in being part of the solution to move from a global economy based upon ‘take-make-dispose’ to...
Building Urban Resilience
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Before the middle of this century, the world's cities will face challenges like never before. A projected 50% growth in world population, hand-in-hand...
Circular economy in emerging markets: an insight from Brazil
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What do we mean by low to middle income economies or emerging markets? Why has there been so little research on the circular economy opportunities i...
Hunter Lovins on the circular economy of soil
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In public discussion, the circular economy is often described as a way to allow technical products and their components to be used as endlessly as pos...
Cities as flows in a circular economy
23 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The pattern in which cities have grown is predictable across the world, and it’s based on the economic relationship between the centre and the edge....
Lessons from self-organising traffic lights in city transport systems
16 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What can traffic lights tell us about how our economy could work? It may seem a strange question to ask, but Dirk Helbing, is the person who makes the...
The renewable energy transition - insight from Germany’s energiewende
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does a country go through a renewable energy transition? Well, no country has done it before and there is no blue print to follow, but Germany is ...
Towards a regenerative food system
02 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our agriculture system is under a greater strain than ever before. The growth of global green yields has fallen behind global population growth, and a...
Remanufacturing and the circular economy
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Remanufacturing allows us to use product components again at high quality while reducing energy demand by - in some cases - 80%. Given the material co...
Michael Pawlyn - Ecosystems as a unifying model for cities and Industry
19 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The circular economy is inspired by living systems and one of the schools of thoughts that explores this model is Biomimicry. In this episode Michae...