Illustration from "On Measuring Sustainability"
tag > Regenerative
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U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data (reuters)
U.S. Farm bankruptcies have increased every year for the past five years--with farmers retiring or selling their farms due to financial strains. This trend is changing the economics of Midwestern towns as land ownership concentrates into fewer hands.
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"Industrial ecology principles and system linkages" - graphics from the paper "Industrial ecology in integrated assessment models" - by Stefan Pauliuk et.al (video)
"Vision for integrating IE and IAM perspectives"
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Overview of Industrial Ecology
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Circado - The first cross-industrial trading platform for industrial side streams.
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Quantitative spatial upscaling of categorical information: The multi‐dimensional grid‐point scaling algorithm - by Daniel Gann (2019)
A new scaling algorithm for categorical data generates representative classification system and reduces information loss.
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Scotland Is on Track to Hit 100 Percent Renewable Energy This Year (Gizmodo)
A report shows Scotland renewables provided 76% of the electricity consumption based on 2018 data, and the percentage is expected to keep rising and will reach 100% soon.
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Cancel Earthworms - The “crazy worms” remaking forests aren’t your friendly neighborhood garden worms. Then again, those aren’t so great either (The Atlantic) (Art by Myriam Wares)
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ODYM - An open software framework for studying dynamic material systems: Principles, implementation, and data structures - by Stefan Pauliuk & Niko Heeren (2019) (Code)
The ODYM model framework is a software library for dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) for modeling biophysical stock-flow relations in socioeconomic metabolism.
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Reflow - Co-creating circular and regenerative resource flows in cities.
REFLOW is an EU H2020 funded project, from 2019 to 2022, that seeks to understand and transform urban material flows and to co-create and test circular and regenerative solutions at business, gov and citizen levels.
Who creates the circular economy? - by Sally Bourdon from @REFLOW_project
One piece of inspiration comes from Alexander Lemille who advocates for not Circular economy but a ‘Circular Humanosphere,’ a Circular Economy 2.0 which emphasises the need for intergenerational and interspatial decision-making. That’s what we’re doing with REFLOW: bringing together representatives from a variety of organisations, initiatives, lines of thought and work to co-create the holistic definition of the circular economy – in short, society.
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Coactlab.org - an open-source environmental tech incubator in Barcelona.
Focus Areas of Coactlab "Use of technology has separated us from nature and destabilized the balance of our climate. Technology must find a new purpose; to repair our natural systems, help life to thrive, and connect as many humans as possible to the process of change. Short-sighted tech helped cause this dilemma, far-sighted tech can help fix it."
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China moves to phase out single-use plastics (reuters)
China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner said on Sunday, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which issued the new policy, said plastic bags will be banned in all of China’s major cities by the end of 2020 and banned in all cities and towns in 2022. Markets selling fresh produce will be exempt from the ban until 2025. By end of 2020, the restaurant industry will be banned from using single-use straws. By 2025, towns and cities across China must reduce the consumption of single-use plastic items in the restaurant industry by 30%.
China starts 10-year fishing ban on Yangtze River (xinhuanet)
Starting from this year, the ban will be observed in 332 conservation areas in the Yangtze River basin, which will also be expanded to all natural waterways of the river and its major tributaries from no later than Jan. 1, 2021. Fishing will also be prohibited on natural waterways of large lakes connected to the Yangtze such as the Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake for 10 years starting from no later than Jan. 1, 2021.
