Digitalisation and climate change are two important factors that have many influences on how we live, plan and build our cities. Industrial production processes account for about a third of greenhouse gases worldwide and in Europe only about 40% of the materials are recycled or reused. The circular economy is...
On the 26.02 Circular Berlin together with the partners Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, visitBerlin, HealthCapital, and BeShared hosted our third multi-stakeholder workshop on the topic of Circular Economy potentials for Food and Biomass streams in Berlin and Berlin religion. The challenges of food waste, unsustainable agriculture and alternative ways...
On the 06.12 Circular Berlin together with the CURE project partners (TU Berlin - Chair for Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies, Material Mafia, and OMA e.V.) hosted a workshop on the topic of Berlin Center for Urban REmanufacture. Already during the preparation phase, we were more than excited to receive...
The world is full of wonderful projects, where people strive for positive changes! We are very proud to be featured among them in the movie Towards Human City, together with Open Source Circular Economy Days, and Natural Building Lab. The project Towards the Human City aims to identify, document and...
On the 20.11 Circular Berlin together with EIT Climate-KIC hosted a workshop on the topic of Circular Construction. Among others, the objective was to discuss current challenges for this field and what the potentials are to set Berlin Construction on the circular rails. Circular Construction is an approach, which requires...
Prepared together with Naveedh Ahmed Sekar, M.sc Environmental and Resource Management Materials play a central role in the current Circular Economy debates. Biodegradable? Recyclable? Fair and transparent? Not toxic? Independently of an industry, search for the best material match to the product specification and function is a challenge. It remains the hot...
The recent debates around circular economy tend to focus primarily on product redesign. But is an economy simply about a product or a product business development?If we cover a little bit of theory, the circular economy is an umbrella term for different economic schools of thoughts. Design. ‘Cradle 2 Cradle’ applies...
Contributor author to Circular Berlin: Piyush Dhawan , German Chancellor Fellow 2017-18 working on the topic of Circular Economy and Circular Cities. Parag Khanna, in his book Connectography has beautifully written that “cities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have...
Circular Berlin had the honour to be an invited guide for Circular Economy Tours. Claudi from Circular economy tours and Dina from Circular Berlin showed Berlin circular spots for the International Social Entrepreneurs from Hive. Very motivated people from different countries were very curious to learn about operational examples of...
Läuft alles rund in Berlin? Eine Diskussion zur Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Hauptstadt Die Open Source Circular Economy Days 2018 (#OSCEdays) brachten die Diskussion um die Zukunft der Kreislaufwirtschaft der deutschen Hauptstadt zum EUREF-Campus. Was brauchen wir für ein „Circular Berlin“? Diese Frage stellte sich Dina Padalkina, Gründerin von Circular Berlin....
