500 materials under the lens
When we talk about products, and thus about materials, renewability must be thought as a material’s ability to regenerate in time (months or years) to be again available for the system. With ...
An Opportunity to Rethink the Role of Foundations
“The circular economy can become an opportunity to systematise and restore meaning to many actions that the former banking foundation system in Italy carries out to catalyse and re-c...
Bioeconomy: The Virtuous Cooperation between National Cluster and Regions
A national platform to promote a model of circular economy focussed on innovative, integrated and multisector value-chains: this is how the Italian National Technological Cluster of Green Chemistry ...
Sustainability is Worth More
$22.890.000.000.000. Almost $23 trillion’s worth of banknotes. That’s the value of sustainable investments, as it’s been recorded at the end of 2016, the latest year for which we h...
Green Economy: Exporting Italian Know-How
There is an “Italian way” towards Green Economy that’s establishing in global markets. Ecomondo, the event organised by Rimini Fiera, that reaced the 19th edition, is a model able ...
Circulating Capital
These are the questions that for over a decade Jamie Butterworth has tried to answer. The former Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO has become one of the founders and partners of Circularity C...
Bottom-up Funding
Funding the circular economy is not easy. Funding a start-up in the circular economy is complicated. Funding a start-up with a circular business model (product-as-a-service) becomes almost prohibiti...
The 4 Vital Elements of a Viable Circular Service Model
While the circular economy is gaining momentum all across the world, the urgency to develop and implement viable circular business models is crucial to its success. One business model that is very p...
A Winning Agreement
BBI JU is a public-private partnership between the EU and the Bio-Based Industries Consortium. It has funded as much as 65 projects in the past 3 years, playing therefore a fundamental role in enhan...
It all Started in Helsinki
It might well have been the largest circular economy gathering to this day. We are talking about the first ever World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF), that took place in Helsinki, Finland, on 5-7 June...
This is How We Recycle Nappies
It is the first technology able to 100% recycle materials making up nappies and absorbent products. A plant built from scratch in Lovadina di Spresiano (Treviso), which transforms otherwise landfill...
Upcycle and the Atomic Bomb
Elliptical, philosophical, rarely obscure and always enlightened with solid, simple concepts. Talking for more than an hour with one of the XXI century design guru is a revealing trip in e...
Thinking with Our Hands
Terms such as “biobased, sustainable, circular materials” are at long last starting to be part of the layman’s vocabulary. Indeed, characterizing an object by its material is a lev...
The Planet We Will See
In your latest book, The Great Transition, you discussed how we are starting our transition out of fossil fuel. Which technology you see trending right now and which have the highest hope ...
The Future Is in the Hands of Corporations
Pavan Sukhdev - Photo by Beatrice Törnros How much are ecosystem services worth in monetary terms? How much are rain, oxygen, climate, biodiversity – s...
Capital is Natural
Graphic elaboration of Karl Marx (engraving), by Robert Diedrichs, 1970 Capital is still a term thought to be confined to the realm of economics and finance. However, ...
70% Recycling Can Be Achieved. Not Enough? I Would Be More than Happy
Talking about separate collection while strolling early in the morning along Trastevere lanes with Daniele Fortini (born in Orbetello in 1955), CEO of AMA (Azienda Municipale Ambiente, Mun...
Natural Recall
The Natural Recall is an international non-profit project. Officially opened in May 2014 within Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise at Milan’s Superortopiù, it is n...
Championing the Circular Cause
There has been an overwhelming interest in the circular economy, from industry to NGOs to member state officials – why do you think this is? I think it’s because many people, ...
The New Chemistry Is Worth $80 Trillion
Let us begin with your book, regarded as the Bible by those in the know. Will you help us understand where the world’s chemical industry is heading for? Over the last ten years, the chemical ...