The Circularity Edge With Ken Alston

Viva La Revolución!

Thoughts from my time in Bogota and Medellin, Colombia and interview with Kevin De Cuba - Co-founder of the Americas Sustainable Development Foundation and the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas.

Our Lungs Are On Fire!

This is Ken Alston with THE CIRCULARITY EDGE Podcast episode #3!

OUR LUNGS ARE ON FIRE!

The lungs of the Earth – the Brazilian rainforest - is on fire and burning at a rapid pace.

Join me to discuss sustainable circular economy actions we can take on the eve of my visit to Bogota and Medellin, Colombia

Technical & Biological Cycles in a Sustainable Circular Economy

In this episode of The Circularity Edge, Ken Alston discusses the principles of Circular Design and the need to design into safe technical and/or biological cycles. The need to design for multiple sustainability outcomes is reviewed along with examples of solar and wind turbines which are moving energy to non-renewable forms but are not currently designed for the circular economy.

The so-called "Butterfly diagram" from the Ellen MacArthur foundation is derived from the Technical and Biological cycles from the book "Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the Way We Make Things", by William McDonough & Michael Braungart, North Point Press, 2002.

Note: In reality the technical cycle is in the biological cycle as we are all on the Earth and are part of its biological cycle.

Introduction to Sustainability and the Circular Economy

In this podcast I'll discuss the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and where the concept of Sustainable Development came from. I'll talk about how for 32 years we've struggled to achieve "sustainability" and why the business response for over 27 years of "Eco-efficiency" is insufficient to the task. I'll introduce the concept of "Circular Economy" and begin to explain what it is.

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