Generative Art & Science - Celestino Soddu. China's eco-cities: Sustainable urban living in Tianjin. It takes less than an hour on the new high-speed train line to travel the 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast from Beijing to Tanggu, the dirty coastal port town of nearby Tianjin – the world's fifth biggest port. Here, you can see signs of the past and present: fine colonial architecture built by European settlers a century ago nestle among the gleaming modern high-rises.
But for a glimpse of the future, I am driving a few minutes up the coast from Tanggu to see a city so new that most of it is still being built. Few things can be certain about the future, as philosophers wiser than I have pointed out, but one trend that is likely to continue is urbanisation. The Anthropocene will be populated by city dwellers, in contrast to the rural demography of the past millennia, and this has profound implications for human society.
Nowhere will this be felt more keenly than in China, home to more than 1.3 billion people. Building a blueprint Sustainable living. Search Results for circular economy. There’s a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. ‘Re-Thinking Progress’ explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works – designing products that can be ‘made to be made again’ and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and […] President Obama bypassed the Congress on Tuesday and signed the much maligned but anticipated cybersecurity executive order. He made the announcement during the State of the Union address, stating: ‘We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private email. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Continue reading … Let’s Go FORWARD Tell someone you are going to a convention of accountants and you might get a few yawns, yet money and how it works is probably one of the most interesting things on earth.
Continue reading … Eco-efficiency as the Appropriate Measurement of Circular Economy--《China Population Resources and Environment》2006年05期. ZHU Da-jian QIU Shou-feng(School of Economics & Management of Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China) Circular Economic Theory and a Comprehensive Fairly-Well-off Society in China--《Journal of Tongji University Social Science Section》2003年03期. Research on the Circular Economy Evaluation Index System in Resource Based City--《Science of Science and Management of S.& T.》2005年08期. Sustainable future for Scotland - Glasgow City Council. Dame Ellen MacArthur looks to boost sustainable future for Scotland Businesses are set to work together to build a sustainable future for Scotland thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between the University of Strathclyde and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Dame Ellen MacArthur will visit the University on Friday (June 1) to speak at a one-day conference to raise the profile of the circular economy - an industrial economy that invites businesses to transform their approach to the use of materials and energy. Although best known as a yachtswoman, and particularly for breaking the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, Dame Ellen is now making waves in the business world.
The Foundation aims to inspire people to re-think, re-design, and re-build a more sustainable future through the vision of a circular economy. "Dame Ellen MacArthur is an inspiration in this area and the support of the Foundation is a fantastic coup for Strathclyde. Circular governance by Douwe Jan Joustra. Stubbs Rich | Architects in Bath | Building The Circular Economy. All days sustainable, towards a circular economy - EGM architects. 02-12-2013 All days sustainable, towards a circular economy World premiere for sustainable Reinier de Graaf Hospital with Pharmafilter as a practical example On November 29 Eric Schoones' book "Alle dagen duurzaam, op weg naar een circulaire economie" was presented in the Amsterdam Art Center.
In this book, Schoones presents interviews with inspiring circular experts, including Eric Wendel architect of the Reinier de Graaf Hospital and Robert-Jan van Ogtrop, the founder of Circle Economy. Sustainable Reinier de Graaf Hospital Eric Wendel, partner architect at EGM architecten : 'I have designed a facade for the building of the hospital - partly premanufactured - which can be recycled and easily mounted. That was applauded for cost efficiency, you build faster and cheaper.
The first plans for the new hospital date from thirteen years ago. Then they wanted to demolish all the existing and build houses. With Pharmafilter eventually a smaller building will do. Circular Economy: Thomas Rau at TEDxZwolle. Circular economy | OPAi | oneplanetarchitecture institute. We face a real transition in the economic system: from the actual ‘linear’ to a ‘circular’ system. That brings some different needs for enhancing the change.
We could wait and see, but we know from the transitiontheory that you can speed up the process, through transitionmanagement. The change has to take place on all kinds of levels: as well as scale levels, as organisational levels. The real question is: “what do we need for speeding up this transition?” A far too complex question for one clear answer. We will need new businessmodels, new concepts of ownership, new models of value creation, new perspectives on clients and the provided performances. OPAi cooperates with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Another good source of information on strategies for the Circular Economy is the report made by the Aldersgate Group, find it here: It is called ‘Resilience in the Round, seizing the growth opportunities for the Circular Economy’. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.