Zipping around town on tiny two-wheelers seems like the green thing to do — but there’s more to sustainability than saving energy.
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Accelerate at Circularity 19 is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Revolv’s Forrest Carroll pitches from the main stage.
Accelerate at Circularity 19 is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Re-Nuble’s Tinia Pina pitches from the main stage.
Accelerate at Circularity 19 is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Re-Nuble’s Tinia Pina pitches from the main stage.
Accelerate at Circularity 19 is a fast-pitch competition featuring entrepreneurs with innovative technologies, products and services advancing a circular economy. Kudoti’s Matthieu de Gaudemar pitches from the main stage.
While business has contributed to the mass destruction of our resources, it also holds the key to the solutions.
Circular Economy Fellow at WRI, Mathy Stanislaus, is exploring, “what are the key levers, specifically policy levers, to accelerate the circular economy?” He’s found some key points: value retention processes (extending life and enabling second life of products) and creating and optimizing a secondary materials system (a market for using used materials in safe, healthy and effective manners). Doing so can reduce new resource extraction by 80 percent and GHG impacts by 80-90 percent. The incentives are high — and so prioritization is imperative.
Lauren Yarmuth is a systems thinker — and she’s thinking in terms of how to unlock the challenges that prevent the transition to a circular economy.