Cummins, the giant engine and powertrain maker based in Columbus, Indiana, turned 100 this year. Over the last century it’s become a dominant player in…
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This article is sponsored by BASF. Formulators working on cosmetics and related products are operating in a challenging environment today. Thanks to a rise in…
American Electric Power is asking state regulators for the second time in two years to approve a multibillion-dollar investment into wind power, as it races…
Why are national climate politics frozen? The conventional understanding is that Americans are deeply divided on the issue along party lines. Until recently, Democrats have…
What if the limitations to realizing a circular economy lay not only in new and innovative approaches, but also in enabling cultural conditions critical for…
What will it take to capitalize the circular economy? Circular supply chains offer investors an opportunity to reduce costs, provide pricing stability, mitigate risk and…
A Circular Economy is only good when it circulates “goods.” William McDonough discusses the importance of first ensuring that materials are safe and healthy when…
Biomimicry accelerates the kinds of breakthroughs we need to achieve a circular economy. But getting those breakthroughs all the way from concept to commercialization is…
What will it take to sieze the current moment, leverage the buzz around the circular economy and scale circularity across value chains and regions? This…
By 2030 the circular economy is estimated to be worth $4.5 trillion in economic output. But what if that’s an underestimate? For the last three…
Tendril and Simple Energy, two Colorado-based startups focused on utility customer data analytics and energy engagement, have merged into a one-stop-shop for utilities’ customer-facing software needs. Uplight,…
Momentum is growing for U.S. offshore wind, and expectations for China are sky high. But Europe is where the real market action is happening today,…
Sometimes the greatest clean energy innovations happen in your own backyard. That’s a wishful statement for most people in this country, but I live in…
Last week, Donald Trump stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered a speech on his “environmental leadership.” Onlookers called the speech…
How do we transform our linear, “take-make-waste” economic and cultural system into one that safely and equitably uses the resources it has? In many ways,…
The countries of Bhutan and Suriname are already carbon negative, meaning their economies absorb more greenhouse gasses than they admit, while Norway and Sweden have…
Conservation of the planet’s beautiful and scarce natural resources is a big part of sustainability. But the concept of conservation, as a wildlife photographer at…
The following is an extract from “The Trillion Dollar Shift: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” by Marga Hoek. The adoption of the SDGs and the…
Circular Economy Fellow at WRI, Mathy Stanislaus, is exploring, “what are the key levers, specifically policy levers, to accelerate the circular economy?” He’s found some…
The senior director of open innovation and circular economy for food at Danone North America at Danone, Merijn Dols, came to Circularity 19 to talk…