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The Anthropocene Project
The Anthropocene Project took place as a two-year program between the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Max Planck Institute for the History of Sci
Circular Economy: Ancient Populations Pioneered the Idea of Recycling Waste
No 14
The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s rampant consumerist hunger, which are then thrown away. The idea of the circular economy only took off in the 1980s, but this doesn’t mean that the practices at the core of a circular economy, such as repairing, recycling, refurbishing, or repurposing, are equally novel. All of these strategies have the aim of keeping materials in use—whether as objects or as their raw components—for as long as possible. And all are hardly revolutionary.
Maikel Kuijpers
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Circular Economy: Ancient Populations Pioneered the Idea of Recycling Waste
No 14
The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s rampant consumerist hunger, which are then thrown away. The idea of the circular economy only took off in the 1980s, but this doesn’t mean that the practices at the core of a circular economy, such as repairing, recycling, refurbishing, or repurposing, are equally novel. All of these strategies have the aim of keeping materials in use—whether as objects or as their raw components—for as long as possible. And all are hardly revolutionary.
Maikel Kuijpers
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International Conference Energy and Scale: Trans-scalar and Multi-scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions
Conference on "Energy and Scale" with Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary
Dec 10, 2018International Conference Energy and Scale: Trans-scalar and Multi-scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions
Conference on "Energy and Scale" with Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary
Dec 10, 2018Artikel zum Anthropozän-Projekt von Christoph Rosol, Benjamin Steininger, Jürgen Renn und Robert Schlögl
Zum ArtikelArticle on Anthropocene project by Christoph Rosol, Benjamin Steininger, Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl
Go to ArticlePostdoktorandin Giulia Rispoli in El País über den sowjetischen Klimatologen Vladimir Alexandrov
Zum Artikel (auf Spanisch)Postdoctoral Fellow Giulia Rispoli in El País article on Soviet climatologist Vladimir Alexandrov
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