News, updates & opinion
In 2020 Circular Berlin is part of the project City Loops, with such partners as Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom). The core of the project is to bring circular economy thinking for the practitioners using advanced circular economy tools such...
Firstly, circularity practices are not part of Berlin schools' regular syllabus. It is however important to raise awareness on this topic among young students as they represent our future. Secondly, most schools in Berlin are not run taking circular or sustainable practices into account. The Kreativitätsgrundschule Karlshorst is trying to...
As we grew to 20+ people over the past years, we have always thought of bringing more people together, to work on Berlin's circular economy. Today we are excited to introduce the Community Membership: a place to collaborate, learn, and develop your skills amongst other circular economy professionals. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences for global markets and their manufacturing. The crisis has exposed the lack of resiliency specifically within the fashion industry supply chain, while simultaneously highlighting positive opportunities rising from the crisis. Circular Berlin wanted to explore the role of circularity in creating a more...
Architecture, engineering and the construction industry face an unprecedented and urgent need to be at the forefront of systematic change towards a circular economy. Accelerating the transition to a circular built environment, together with EIT Climate-KIC, Circular Berlin spoke to Andrea Klinge to obtain key insights on the circular economy...
We need to engage our whole community in the topic of circular economy for Berlin to become a circular city, which means teaching circular principles to small children and seasoned professionals alike. But how? What are the practical ways we can inspire kindergarteners to think about waste and material loops?...
Gijs Könings is the Assistant Project Manager for the Circular Economy at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin and the organizer of “Circular Design Sprint”, an online workshop for new material use in the fashion industry. Through the Circular Design Sprint, Dutch...
Circular Berlin bereitet die Serie von Interviews in englischer und deutscher Sprache mit den Praktikern des Themas Circular Economy im Bausektor vor, um mit ihnen die Erkenntnisse der Circular Economy zu erkunden. restado schafft einen Markt für übrige und wiedergewonnene Baustoffe. Das Green Impact Startup gehört zu den Top 100...
Flexible packaging? Rigid packaging? Transportation packaging? Food-contact related packaging? - It is not easy to bring this topic under one term, even though we call all it “packaging.” On February 26th, Circular Berlin together with RawParadise and Project Together hosted our first event in 2020, where we shared our knowledge...
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...