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IDEO showcase circular design at Munich Creative Business Week
Designers reveal how applying circular economy principles can lead to better products and services for people.
Reversible reaction: Even chemicals can be leased
Pay-per-use chemicals offer significant financial and environmental opportunities.
How computing is evolving and could enable a better understanding of our economy
Microchips and the broader technology world may soon experience a significant shift. Moore’s law, named after Intel founder Gordon Moore, is slowing, while increasingly complex microprocessing demands are accompanied by the rise of tech trends including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). This may be especially relevant in the context of
Podcast: Google and the Circular Economy
We speak with Jim Miller, Google’s Vice President of Global Operations about what the circular economy can do for this leading contemporary’s business.
Is the US nearing its ‘potential GDP’? And what might that mean for a circular economy?
Closing in on what economists believe to be its full productive capacity, questions are being asked about the direction of the United States’ economy, and with the subject of idle capacity featuring significantly in the conversation, the circular economy approach may soon be a part of the agenda.
Why air conditioning as a service could have a huge impact on energy usage
The world needs to re-think how it stays cool and Singapore-based company Kaer Water may have the answers.
Circulate on Fridays: A new kind of thinking that goes beyond recycling
Our first Circulate on Fridays for February highlights a new film via The Economist, a completely new way of thinking about home improvement stores originating in Texas and so much more.
Is this how Europe realises its circular economy potential?
According to the new report Achieving Growth Within, released in Davos last week, an additional €320 billion of circular economy investment opportunities could be unlocked through modest political and business action in the European Union (EU) until 2025.
How OTTO Group is testing out the transition from selling to renting at scale
One of Europe’s largest international e-commerce retailers, German-based OTTO Group, unveiled a new aspect of its business over the Christmas period, now providing an option where customers can rent a range of products online. Introduced on an experimental basis initially, the rental model has started with a select, but broad
Renault partner with OSVehicle to create an open source mass-market electric vehicle
enault has partnered with OSVehicle to create POM, a new electric vehicle (EV), open source and available for customisation by start-ups, independent labs, private customers and researchers.
