Clean Energy Connections Presents: The Circular Economy
The Urban Future Lab and Solar 1 are excited to partner with Circular City Week for the first Clean Energy Connections of the year! This episode, we’re givin…
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The Urban Future Lab and Solar 1 are excited to partner with Circular City Week for the first Clean Energy Connections of the year! This episode, we’re givin…
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Rob O’Grady is an engineer and father of three who has been stirred to action by his reflections on environmental issues and his everyday encounters with the perversity of our current system. Trained in the discipline of “sustainability engineering,” he discerned early in his career that to talk of sustainability in the world of business and politics was “to pour from the empty into the void,” because the underlying context is subversive of such efforts. Rejecting a career dealing in irreconcilable contradictions, he went into the construction industry and helped to build a thriving company that employs some 150 people. But he continued to think about environmental and economic issues.
From the smallest of deeds, like recovering surplus food to give to people in need (and keeping the food out of the waste stream), to large renewable energy projects, UC Davis’ efforts in sustainability have the nation and world taking notice — again.
According a new survey commissioned by Ingredient Communications and conducted by Surveygoo, one-third of U.S. consumers and 52 percent of those in the U.K. are in support of a tax on all plastic food packaging.
Exposing the challenges of the circular economy and the efficient use of resources for the competitiveness of companies and to spread the knowledge on the instruments of the European Commission to facilitate the transition to a more circular economy, have been the objectives of the workshop,…
If you haven’t heard of Allbirds yet, you will soon. Kiwi, Tim Brown, together with engineer Joey Swillinger created Allbirds, a footwear company creating a range to suit your everyday needs, from loungers to runners. What is special about the brand is the materials they use and the sustainable nature of their process.
Move over, Millennials – there’s a new generation in town. To date, there has been much research conducted on millennial purchasing behaviors.Born between 1981 and 1996, Millennials makeup about 22% of the population, according to Statista, and are about 30% of total retail sales; this generation…