Kategoriearchiv: Waste becomes Resource

Leading up to XMAS and during the holidays we will turn off our TVs 😉 following Noam Chomsky´s good advice (see video below) to have more time to ourselves and to gain fresh insights for the new year. Join us if you like. (Thank you David McConville for sharing and The Juice Media Rap News for […]

Zack Hirschfeld, an activist in our campaign, pointed me to this very powerful concept of cradle-to-cradle design. Imagine what it is like when „Waste becomes Resource“ is not an afterthought but already part of the initial design process!!! How!!! Underneath you find William McDonough´s TED talk in half (for people with little time). The full […]

Following our article of the „Crowd-starting dancer“ I like to present what I believe is part 2 to this story: The dancer or the dancing crowd being inspired by another crowd or dancer. Chris Anderson in his TED Talk below makes a very strong case for „Video Driven Innovation“. One dancer being inspired by the […]

Makespace, Coworking Space in Singapore, opening in January 2012 has joined our campaign. The latest pictures are very promising. Boon Teck Tan writes:“We had to do up our coworking space, quite a bit as it was a pretty old space. We had been able to reuse some of the 20 year old light fixtures and supplement […]

Thank you Bert-Ola Bergstrand for sharing!!! Wow this is very instructive!!! First followers get into the groove, join the dance. This movement is about sharing news about coworking!!! It is about collaboration, joint consumption, exchange of ideas and projects that rock!!!

Following the train of thought of Prof. Dan Ariely „Irrational Behaviour“ in the form of trust or revenge is beneficial for our society. What do you think?

After watching two very sickening videos on plastics (Video A, Video B)  in our oceans, I thought to myself, there must be a way to solve this problem. Well, how can we stop to produce so much rubbish and consume more products that are packaged in a sustainable way? Collaborative Consumption could be one very powerful […]

Rasheed22, Coworking Space in Cairo joined the „Waste becomes Resource“ Campaign on Facebook to make a point:“We are experimenting in our recently added groundfloor space with getting more or less nothing new. We’ve succeeded even with the toilet. Still missing are chairs, doorhandles, more desks, shelv…es, etc. No need to send from abroad – but […]

When you start to focus in a certain direction, it is amazing what you can find. Put together the idea of clean cooking and „Waste becomes Resource“ Thinking you find a product like the „BioLite“ stove: „BioLite has created a biomass cookstove that, by converting waste heat into electricity, reduces smoke emissions by 95% for […]

In line with our „Waste becomes Resource“ Campaign we like to give our support to the following statement of currently about 300 economists: “ We are economists who oppose ideological cleansing in the economics profession. Equally we oppose political cleansing in the vital debate over the causes and consequences of our current economic crisis.“  „We support […]