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If you are a regular listener, you’ll know that every 10th episode, I zoom in on one or two of the common themes from the last series of interviews.
In the last series, we’ve heard from 4 businesses and 3 social enterprises, based in Australia, The Netherlands, France, Spain, the UK and the USA.
What stood out for me this time was how circular solutions develop as they mature – that might be evolving to improve the range of solutions, to strengthen the offer or the business model, and maybe even having to pivot when a major barrier or issue crops up.
Businesses and community initiatives might also want to expand their scale, so they can make a bigger positive difference.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- European Commision’s list of Critical Raw Materials https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/critical-raw-materials_en
- Article by Dr Jack Barrie and Dr Patrick at Chatham House: ‘As demand for critical raw materials rises we need a better plan to manage them’ https://greenallianceblog.org.uk/2021/11/24/as-demand-for-critical-raw-materials-rises-we-need-a-better-plan-to-manage-them/
- Trees for the Future https://trees.org/
- World Localization Day: https://worldlocalizationday.org/
- Small Businesses UK article on the benefits of shopping locally https://smallbusiness.co.uk/fifteen-reasons-choose-local-company-2542429/
- Local Futures page on why localization is a solution multiplier https://www.localfutures.org/learn-take-action/learning-guides/localization-is-it-the-solution/
- Latest book by Ken Webster and Craig Johnson – ABC&D: Creating a regenerative circular economy for all https://www.amazon.com/ABC-Creating-regenerative-circular-economy/dp/0955983134
Guests in this series
- Rob Thompson of Odyssey Innovations
- Gavin Fernie-Jones of One Tree at a Time
- Tom Szaky of Loop
- Charles Ross, specialist in performance sportswear design and sustainability
- Food and community activist Helena Norberg-Hodge of Local Futures
- Isolde de Ridder of Isolde de Ridder Sieraden
- Stephen Haskew of Circular Computing
- Colin Church of IOM3
- Jordi Ferre of Alvinesa
If you’re new to the circular economy, you might like the ‘getting started’ playlist. There’s also an interactive podcast index, making it easy to find episodes on each of the key circular economy strategies or for a specific market sector. And to dig deeper, please check out Catherine’s award-winning A Circular Economy Handbook, published by Kogan Page.
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