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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...
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is an online platform curated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which aims to shift mindsets and inspire action towards a circular economy. As part of an initiative with 30 screenings happening around the globe. On the 22.11 the Berlin event took place which brought together experts...
Mittlerweile wissen die meisten von uns: Plastikmüll ist ein Problem. Wir möchten weniger davon konsumieren. Gleichzeitig macht es der hektische und oft spontane Alltag schwierig, unterwegs auf Einwegbesteck und -verpackungen zu verzichten. Mit diesem Bestecketui als täglichem Begleiter bist du gut vorbereitet und kannst dich ab sofort guten Gewissens auch...
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...
With this campaign DZAINO wants to realize the first large production of bags made out of textile waste. During the last months we worked on new products and improved our logistics for an entirely social and fair production. Now we need your support to extend our production of bags and...
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...
