Welcome. Maak zelf je schoonmaakmiddelen. LiquidGold – More that just waste. Voor de Wereld van Morgen. Ladies – HoodLamb. Open Source Ecology. Generatie transitie. Onze visie. French Home Appliance Wants You to 3D Print Spare Parts. Major French brand Boulanger wants customers to 3D print spare parts, launches new website, “happy3D” to host and share their own exclusive brand designs.
Cults 3D announced a new platform that will have many people saying “Finally!” The digital marketplace is partnering up with Boulanger, a major home appliance and multimedia specialist in France to help customers 3D print spare parts quickly and efficiently via their new happy3D website. Boulanger is a huge company in France, making this development that much more exciting. The 60-year-old institution boasts 9,000 employees selling and servicing 20,000 products around the country. For customers, this change means getting more out of machines and spending less doing it.
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Bartering was the original means of exchanging goods and services, predating the invention of money as we know it.
Garden bounty was traded for sheep’s cheese; mead was swapped for a woven blanket. Today, a resurgence in bartering is underway, as people turn away from our culture’s dominant “buy more stuff” paradigm, and instead take pride and satisfaction in the goods and services they provide, the handiwork of their friends and neighbors, and in helping make their communities more self-reliant. The growth of this direct-trade economy is accompanied by an emergence of several other exciting economic trends that diverge from business as usual. Options include seed libraries, bike-sharing programs, local currencies and socially responsible investment plans. Here’s how you can join in and be a part of the change. Self-Reliance Through DIY Projects Barter and Trade For What You Need One way you can get off the money train is to barter for some of the things you need. Bank your time. Welcome to the Community Exchange System.
Appropedia. Dorfgeist - Startseite. Home. Independent think tank and strategy consultancy. Federaal instituut voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling. Moving toward a circular economy. The circular economy aims to eradicate waste—not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components.
Indeed, tight component and product cycles of use and reuse, aided by product design, help define the concept of a circular economy and distinguish it from the linear take–make–dispose economy, which wastes large amounts of embedded materials, energy, and labor. In the first exhibit of this narrated slideshow, McKinsey alumnus Markus Zils explains how a circular economy works. In the second, he uses the example of a market for power drills to detail four scenarios in which circular-economy principles are applied: In the status-quo scenario, 1,000 power drills are made in China and sold in the European Union.
In the refurbishment scenario, 800 drills are sold at the original price, and 200 are refurbished and sold at 80 percent of it. About the author. Foodquake. Functional Subgrouping the core method of SCT®, developed by Y. Agazarian (Dutch) Systems Thinking with Peter Senge of The Fifth Discipline; ExIn041111. The Donella Meadows Institute. TED Talk Tim Jackson Economics Of Climate Change. The Long Now Foundation - Fostering Long-Term Thinking. Leading the Sustainability Insurgency. Experts Weigh In I asked readers to comment on my post above and got some terrific feedback.
Here’s what Dave Stangis, vice president of corporate responsibility at the Campbell Soup Company, Antonini Ballabriga, global head of corporate responsibility at banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), and Michael Jacobson, CSR Director at Intel have to say. - Gregory Unruh, March 26, 2014 Does Sustainability Require Revolution — or Leadership?
Dr. Many in CSR and sustainability view their job, their role, through the lens of right versus wrong, good versus evil. I often describe my job as doing everything in my individual power to make the Campbell Soup Company the best company it can be — period. My personal mantra is driving from “people” to “process.” Can we solve the sustainable prosperity paradox? We’ve arrived at the perfect storm of economic, environmental, social and political challenges aimed squarely at the status quo.
Much of the industrial era type work is falling victim to technological unemployment. Add to that the problem that business as usual is usually bankruptcy bound and best practice is often an ecological disaster, what can we do to solve the apparent contradiction that is sustainable prosperity? A hundred years ago, the 99% were entrepreneurs and it looks like an entrepreneurial revival is the only thing that’s going to make life prosperous again.
There is a common misconception that an entrepreneur is a label for somebody who creates new businesses, when really it’s a set of behaviours. Entrepreneurial skills are innate but are industrialised out of people from an early age by top down hierarchical management systems. I call the traits of entrepreneurialism the ‘If in doubt…SOAR!’ Nudge - duurzaam consumentenplatform. Built Environment | Shared Resources.