Circle Economy is a social enterprise organised as a cooperative that works with businesses and cities, to accelerate the practical and scalable implementation of the circular economy. www.circle-economy.com

Startup: Mycelium-based Furniture and Packaging from RongoDesign

RongoDesign combines mycelium technology and the recycling of agroindustrial waste to create safe and durable interior design products with biophilic characteristics, which help build healthy spaces...

Startup: FixFirst, an Operating System to Extend the Life of Products

Founded in 2019, German startup FixFirst offers companies a software as-a-service that aims to be the OS (operating system) for circular services and products, focusing especially on repair. A soft...

Sustainable Tourism and Green Certifications: an Overview

Tourism, like other sectors, is experiencing a boom in green certifications. Globally, there are 150 certificates assessing the sustainability of tourism activities such as hotels, resorts, res...

Startup: biobased and home compostable plastics with Traceless Materials

Germany-based Traceless Materials offers an alternative to single-use, fossil-based plastics thanks to its biobased and home compostable plastics. With special technology developed by the Hamburg-ba...

Hans Bruyninckx: beyond the green city, the future is in integrated cities

Innovation, creativity, cooperation, vision: cities have always been the place where change begins and future is built. The path mapped out by the European Green Deal, then, can only start in t...

Startup: Vertical Protein Production from Insects with Tebrito

Tebrito is the Swedish insect production company that uses the protein produced by the Tenebrio molitor, also known as the mealworm or miller's tenebrion, native to continental Europe, as an al...

UN Water Conference: Towards a Global Water Agenda?

The 22nd of March marks World Water Day, and this year the focus will be on accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. On the same day, in New York, the United Nations will kick o...

Circular water in the Netherlands: an example of resilience, innovation, and cooperation

Climate change increases the risk of flooding in regions around the North Sea due to rising sea levels, increasing river flows, and more intense precipitation. People and economies are at risk, but ...

A new EU industrial plan for the net-zero age

This week, the European Commission published the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. This is the EU’s first move in response to US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction ...

The Doughnut Comes to Amsterdam: How to Create a Thriving City for a Thriving Planet

Applying principles from Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, more than 40 officials from the city are collaborating with circular economy experts to re-imagine the future for cities. The partic...