Cargill to launch BeefUp Sustainability initiative to reduce GHG emissions

Designing sustainable, nurturing school environments presents many challenges. One of those challenges involves designing for safety and security. How do you design a beautiful, sustainable school that is both welcoming and secure, without the trappings of a “hardened” approach to school safety? In the case of the new Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, answering this question involved listening to and engaging the school community throughout the design process.

Late last month global circular economy organisation Circle Economy released their latest edition of the Circularity Gap Report, an initiative that aims to measure the state of the world economy from a circular perspective and identify key interventions to transition to a more circular model. Let’s deal with the most concerning aspect of their findings first. In 2018, when the first gap report was released, Circle Economy established that the global economy was just 9.1 per cent circular, already indicating a huge gap between the amount of resources we extract and what we effectively recover. Rather than increasing the amount of materials we reuse and recycle, however, the 2020 Gap Report found we have gone backwards.