Transitioning to a circular economy requires a lot: business innovation, consumer behavior change, new policy frameworks, community engagement. But one thing has to happen before any of those changes can take place: people need to learn what the circular economy is, and how to make it happen. Behind every business...
Circular Berlin, together with BUND Berlin and GRÜNE LIGA Landesverband Berlin, has developed a zero waste concept for public spaces and events in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The four month project collaboration was successfully completed in December 2019, with a final press conference in early January. By commissioning the...
Much has changed since the beginning of 2019 - from incorporating our organization and growing our team, to getting engaged in industry and municipal projects. Grab a cup of coffee and dive into the little insights of our activities this year! Developing Circular Berlin into a true entity We have...
Project "Kreislaufschule" (Circular School) has started! Together with the initiatives Zero Waste Your Life and Mifactori Circular Berlin has been granted the funding from the Berliner Projektfonds kulturelle Bildung to run a yearlong pilot program on circular practices with an elementary school in Berlin-Karlshorst. So far, we have conducted workshops exploring how to close...
PLATE stands for Product Lifetimes and the Environment and is a conference series organised by Fraunhofer IZM and Technical University Berlin. This year, it took place from 18-20th of September in Berlin. Circular Berlin was present with a poster about the CURE project entitled ‘Centers for Urban Re-manufacture: Lessons from...
2019 has been a year of a lot of movement in Berlin. For Circular Berlin (CB) this reality also applies. Different projects, workshops and initiatives have been developed during the year in order to promote and enhance the vision of circular economy among the entrepreneur community in our beloved city. ...
Together with the initiatives Zero Waste Your Life (Laura Konieczny) and Mifactori (Lars Zimmermann) Circular Berlin had applied for funding to run an educational project for school children. We’re now happy to announce that the Berliner Projektfonds kulturelle Bildung has granted the funding to run a yearlong pilot program on...
The interest in Circular Berlin’s third community meetup on June 26th 2019 was great. Despite 30°C+ temperatures outside, a large crowd of people met at Impact Hub to learn more about tools and methods from some of Berlin’s most active circular economy networks. More than half a dozen very diverse...
In the beginning of June the Circular Berlin team traveled to Helsinki to take part in two events about Circular Economy. One of them the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) 2019, organised by Sitra and hosted already for the 3rd time. We combined the trip with our on-going working session...
At the beginning of 2019 Circular Berlin and Future Fashion Forward e.V. teamed up to organize the fourth and last workshop of the Circular Berlin event series targeting the issues of local waste streams in Berlin and bringing together municipalities and industry actors in different fields. After looking at the...
