Neoclassical or Ex Novo?
Biobased neoclassical and ex novo materials. These are the neomaterials representing the new scenarios of matter. Plant or bio-based, extracted from urban mines or recovered from waste, th...
Sustainable Ambition
A need and an opportunity – this is what the bioeconomy is for the government of Spain, that, in March 2016, was the first of the big Mediterranean countries to present its own national strate...
United We Stand
edited by Institut de l’économie circulaire, Parigi www.institut-economie-circulaire.fr Adrian Deboutière and Laurent Georgeault ...
Paper and Cardboard Become Smart
Packaging (just think of ancient urns) has long been made to contain, transport and, above all, store food. Or even to avoid food waste. These days, in rich countries, the wide availability o...
How Cans Have Changed
Tracing the history of a can of our favourite beverage would be sufficient to realize how the world of packaging in the food sector has changed. Starting from the creation of a new product, from the...
Steel: A Safe of Nature
In the collective imagination, steel is the indestructible metal (an alloy to be more precise) par excellence. As a matter of fact, it is no accident that it belongs to those materials, such as glas...
Water Resilience
When playing chess, thinking about the next move is not enough, it is necessary to look at least four or five moves ahead. It also means preventing the most improbable occurrences; creating a resili...
The Doughnut Age
The greatest challenge for humanity in the 21st century is fulfilling all humanity’s needs, within the planetary boundaries. How can we ensure everybody the pursuit of happiness, end...
Creating a Network
In the future economy, waste will be used to create materials, knowledge will be distributive and shared, jobs and manufacturing processes will be green and communication will keep on having a cruc...
A Treasure at the Bottom of the Sea
Outstanding network-creating research, no large industrial groups, great raw material availability, a highly-developed ocean sector and a government that has placed economy decarbonisation at the he...
When Small is Better
We eat fish at least once a week. We buy it mainly from the supermarket and we are willing to pay more providing it is from the Mediterranean, fished with sustainable methods and respecting the envi...
Twelve and Growing
The G7 ministerial summit on the environment – hosted in Bologna last June – was an opportunity to take off-schedule stock on the many themes that should be at the forefront of governmen...
A Sea of Opportunity
The context was symbolic, the island of Malta rightfully sitting in the middle of the Mediterrean basin, between the Southernmost European countries and Northern Africa. An ideal communication stepp...
Ocean SOS
Five days of talks to reach shared initiatives and commitments to stop the decline of the oceans, preserving them from threats and the serious environmental state they are in. This is, in short, the...
Circular Agriculture
edited by Institut de l’économie circulaire, Parigi www.institut-economie-circulaire.fr 21st century agricultural and agri-food systems are facing unprecedent...
Organic'Vall�e: A Local, Circular Agri-Business
edited by Institut de l’économie circulaire, Paris www.institut-economie-circulaire.fr Organic’Vallée was officially created as a cooperative of ...
Infrastructure: The Missing Link to Close the Loop on Textiles
A systemic transition is necessary for the textile industry to reclaim the human, economic, and environmental value lost in today’s linear system. Brands, retailers, innovators, and government...
Quality Second-Hand Goods
To innovate in order to achieve even higher performing products, without added costs for clients and enhancing the environmental value of the finished product. With such objectives, Viscolube &ndash...
Fair Smartphones
Can we build a smartphone that is made to last, without having to choose between quality and production-chain ethics? There is no doubt in the Dutch Fairphone offices: the answer is yes. For a numbe...
The Advent of Offsite Construction
There is a new and visionary way to conceive buildings bubbling up in Europe. Enough with costly and complex construction sites, managed with 20th century modalities and knowledge. The construction ...