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Waste – getting our house in order

19 September 2019

Roxana-Claudia Tompea speaks to Martine Postma about the benefits of giving appliances an extended life

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged AMsterdam, circular economy, community, Martine Postma, repair cafés, resources, skills, tools | 1 Response

A shift in the production paradigm

23 July 2019

Interview with UNIDO’s Manuel Albaladejo on the circular economy and industry 4.0 in Latin America

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged 3D prinitng, additive manufacturing, Building Information Modelling, chile, circular economy, circularity, green industry, incentives, industrial policy, industry 4.0, latin america, Manuel Albaladejo, public policies, UNIDO, Uruguay, waste management systems | Leave a response

CSR: a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

22 July 2019

How many of same brands and corporations that arguably helped create many of our environmental issues are now touting themselves as our planetary saviours?

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged advocacy, Apple, built-in obsolescence, Coca-Cola, consumption, credibility, CSR, deposit laws, Earth Overshoot Day, environment, Gina Wu Lee, greenwashing, lobbying, plastic bags, production, Recycling, right to repair, sustainability, Upcyclers, waste | Leave a response

Making it circular: on the way to a circular economy in Latin America

27 May 2019

Petar Ostojic sees an opportunity to leapfrog directly to a circular economy

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged circular economy, design, developing countries, Industrial Development, industrialization, Latin America and Caribbean, Petar Ostojic, private sector, sustainability, sustainable economic growth, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization

“Development aid does not prevent migration”

22 March 2018

Hein de Haas on the misleading idea that poverty and violence are the main drivers of South-North migration

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged aid, development, emigration, Hein de Haas, immigration, International Migration Institute, migration, University of Amsterdam

Refugees: another side to the story

20 October 2017

There is great potential for refugees to create value and contribute to their new countries

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Building Markets, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, immigration, innovation, migrants, refugees, Syria, Turkey

Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a ‘circular economy’

11 September 2015

Can a more sustainable economy also deliver the gains in prosperity we’ve grown used to?

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged circular economy, economic productivity, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, linear economy, Mark Esposito, rebound effect, recycled, remanufactured, resource efficiency, reused, sustainability, Terence Tse

Nurturing an industrial cluster in Nigeria

26 August 2015

The Panteka Market cluster in Yola

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged clustering, Daniel Barkley, Economics On The Move, industrial cluster, Nigeria, Panteka, Panteka Market Association, Yola

Why privatize water?

24 August 2015

Anna Lappé believes that private sector engagement in water provision brings greater disparities in access and higher costs

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Anna Lappé, Bechtel, Corporate Accountability International, corporate equity, failing infrastructure, Focus on the Global South, International Finance Corporation, municipal water, Nagpur, Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union, private sector engagement, public-private partnership, Shayda Naficy, water privatization, water provision, World Bank Group