Circular Economy Network (CEN) Event: Waste Not, Want Not: Rethinking Value in the Circular Economy 28 Nov 2018

Please note this event took place in 2018.

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Join us on Wednesday November 28, 2018, from 6:30-8:30pm for the Circular Economy Network's latest event: Waste Not, Want Not: Rethinking Value in the Circular Economy. We'll hear from three thought leaders about the innovative and exciting ways they're redefining value in the circular economy.

• Jennifer Russell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain at Bard College and Author of UNEP IRP report 'Re-defining Value - The Manufacturing Revolution'
  
• Austin Lee, Founder and CxO of bettercorp
• Peter Schon, Industrial Designer, Chair of IDSA-NYC

ABOUT THE THEME

“Value” is one of the most important concepts in the discussions on circular economy. You will find it in the definitions of a circular economy: “A circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design, and aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all times.[1]”. A 3,5min podcast on circular economy by McKinsey & Co, mentions value 36 times[2]. But do we all have a shared understanding of what value means? What do we value in the products we use? What do we value about the businesses that deliver the products and services that satisfy our needs?

In this event organized by the Circular Economy Network (CEN), speakers of diverse backgrounds will make us rethink our notion of value, changing our perspective on the economics of a circular society.

AGENDA

6:20-6:30 pm - Arrival/Check-in

6:30-7:20 pm - Speaker Presentations

7:20-7:40 pm - Q&A

7:40-8:15 pm - Small Breakout Discussion Groups

8:15-8:30 pm - Networking

Light refreshments will be served. Bring your own cup/glass if you can!

Please note that seating is limited and is on a first-come first-served basis.

SPEAKER BIOS

Jennifer Russell

Jennifer Russell teaches Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. Her primary research involves innovation in Circular Economy through market transformation and market access, including the barriers and enabling mechanisms that may affect a firm’s decision to engage in more sustainable and circular manufacturing processes, including remanufacturing. Jennifer received her PhD in Sustainability from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She also holds B.S. and MBA degrees, and has more than 10 years of consulting experience in corporate sustainability programming and policy, and material diversion program design, throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Peter Shon

Peter is a product designer with over 16 years of experience researching, designing and developing products for the healthcare market. As the NYC chapter Chair of Industrial Designer’s Society of America he has worked to engage the NYC design community in building a more sustainable New York. In 2017 he co-developed Hack:Trash:NYC, a hackathon style event challenging a diverse array of New Yorkers to develop innovative waste reduction solutions using the theme of “reuse”. He’s also worked with the DSNY to develop the current BetterBin competition which has engaged designers from around the world in developing a next generation litter basket for the streets of New York.

Austin Lee

Austin: "At bettercorp we connect systems of aligned capital. We do this by guiding businesses along the path toward B Corp Certification and through outreach of impact investing; what it is and how to get involved. Both of these act as levers on the economy, allowing us to contribute to the future through informed choice, while also signaling to others how to earn our business and a place in a fair and equitable future.'

VENUE SPONSOR

The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York City is part of a U.S.A.-wide network of diplomatic representations. CGNY aims to facilitate Dutch companies doing business in the New York area, to expand Dutch Culture in the U.S.A. and provides consular services. The Consulate is proud to host this program of the Circular Economy Network.Website / Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn

#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ClosedLoop #Bcorp #Design #ImpactInvesting #SupplyChain #Operations #Waste #ZeroWaste #Reuse #Repair #Remanufacturing

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[1] V. Moreau, et al.Coming full circle: why social and institutional dimensions matter for the circular economy J. Ind. Ecol., 21 (3) (2017), pp. 497-506

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability-and-resource-productivity/our-insights/why-the-circular-economy-is-all-about-retaining-value

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Circular Economy Network (CEN) Event: "Closing the Loop" Film Screening 17 July 2018

The Circular Economy Network (CEN) -- co-founded by Tessa Vlaanderen and Sarah Bloomquist -- is pleased to announce our summer event! Join us Tuesday, July 17, 6:30-9:00pm, at WeWork in Manhattan to view Closing the Loop, the first feature-length documentary on the #CircularEconomy, and get inspired by numerous examples of game-changing businesses and cities! After the film we'll break into small groups to discuss the film and we'll rejoin as a full group to share our thoughts. Light refreshments will be served. Please bring your own cup if possible! Registration is required.

AGENDA

6:30-6:40pm -- Welcome
6:40-8:15pm -- Film screening
8:15-8:40pm -- Small group discussions
8:40-9:00pm -- Full group discussion

FILM SYNOPSIS

Going “circular” refers to the necessary change from our current take-make-waste linear economy to a borrow-use-return circular economy (sometimes also referred to as the zero-waste or cradle-to-cradle economy).

The film is directed by A two-time Telly® Award and Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Graham Sheldon and presented by global sustainability expert, Prof. Dr. Wayne Visser. And despite its dire warnings – John Elkington, famous for coining the “triple bottom line” of sustainability says in the film: “if we continue with the linear economy if we’re to use a technical term totally screwed” – it is an optimistic film about innovative solutions.

In support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (especially Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production), the documentary explores five key strategies for achieving circularity – reduce, reuse, recycle, renew and reinvent – by showcasing examples from Europe, Latin America and Africa and featuring insights from experts from the likes of the World Economic Forum and the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard.

FEATURED CASES

• Barloworld – a South African industrial conglomerate, with the second-largest Caterpillar equipment remanufacturing plant in the world
• Biogen – a UK renewable energy company which generates all its energy and bio-fertilizer from food waste
• Dutch Awearness – a pioneer in circular textiles from The Netherlands, including workwear and suits that can be recycled 8 times
• Interface – a U.S. carpet manufacturer with an ambitious Mission Zero strategy for eliminating negative environmental impacts by 2020
• Novamont – an Italian bio-plastics company, renowned for making the Lavazza compostable coffee capsule
• Quito City – with solutions ranging from Tetrapak up-cycling and zero-waste car assembly to sustainable farming and eco-tourism in the tropical cloud-forests

In addition to these featured cases, the film also captures the views of business practitioners like Mike Barry, Director of Sustainable Business (Plan A) for Marks & Spencer and Christopher Davis, International Director of Corporate Responsibility and Campaigns for The Body Shop.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Prof. Wayne Visser

Prof. Dr Wayne Visser holds the Chair in Sustainable Transformation and is Professor of Integrated Value at Antwerp Management School. He is also Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. His work as a strategy analyst, sustainability advisor, CSR expert, futurist and professional speaker has taken him to 74 countries in the past 30 years to work with over 150 clients. Dr. Visser has been recognized a Top 100 thought-leader in trustworthy business and a Top 100 global sustainability leader. Some highlights of Wayne’s work include co-producing the climate change documentary Sinking Nation and authoring 28 books – including for example Sustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change Through Business, Leadership, and Innovation.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Graham Sheldon

A two-time Telly® Award and Emmy® Award winner, Graham Sheldon resides in Southern California USA, where he works as a producer, DP and writer in the television and video game industries. Throughout his career, Sheldon has produced dozens of documentary projects in Turkey, Croatia, Ukraine, Peru, Cuba, and across the continental United States — including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. Some highlights of Graham’s work include Sinking Nation, Echoes from Chernobyl, Cuba: An Island Apart, The Agency: Inside the CIA, and his Emmy award-winning expose on migration: Crossing Borders. He attended Indiana University and double majored in Telecommunications and Theatre.

ABOUT THE CEN

The CEN aims to convene a multitude of stakeholders to actively engage in discussing solutions to transition towards a more circular, regenerative world. Follow the CEN on Twitter for the latest on our monthly events.

SPONSORS

Terrapin Bright Green is a sustainability consulting firm committed to creating a healthier world. We believe in finding solutions that reconnect people with nature and mimic natural systems, offering boundless opportunities to improve the quality of life for all. We also believe that high-performance design means fundamentally improving human health, alongside economic and environmental performance.

WeWork is a platform for creators, providing over 120,000 members around the world with space, community, and services through both physical and virtual offerings. WeWork currently has more than 150+ physical locations in 50+ cities and 15 countries around the world. WeWork's mission is to create a life where people work to make a life, not just a living. To learn more about the WeWork locations in New York City, send an email to joinus@wework.com.

#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ClosedLoop #Materials #Lifecycle #ClosingTheLoop

Circular Economy Network (CEN) Event: "Atoms & Bits: Tracking Materials and Data In the Circular Economy" 10 April 2018

Circular Economy Network (CEN) co-founders, Tessa Vlaanderen and Sarah Bloomquist, are excited to announce our next event! Join us Tuesday, April 10, 6:30-8:30pm, at Grand Central Tech in Manhattan for the Circular Economy Network's latest event: Atoms & Bits: Tracking Materials and Data In the Circular Economy. We'll hear from three thought leaders about their work in using data and information technology to stimulate a circular economy. Speakers include:

• Christopher Cooke, Director of Technical Development at The Sustainability Consortium -- Speaking on metrics and the circularity of supply chain
• Louisa Durkin, Co-Founder of Future Culture -- Speaking on blockchain for a circular economy, it’s potential & current limitations
• Jeff Simpson, Blockchain Specialist at Cisco Systems -- Speaking on best practice circular solutions developed by Cisco

Registration is required.

ABOUT THE THEME

The urgency and opportunity of shifting from a linear take-make- dispose economic model to a circular economy in which value is created utilizing existing and renewable goods and materials is on the rise. This transition comes with a broad range of changes. Changes in culture; in how companies, supply chains, and markets are organized; in how consumer needs are addressed; in how value creation opportunities are identified; and in how people, machines, and goods are interconnected and interact. While these changes can seem daunting, digital tools enable achievable and manageable solutions through:

• Platform technologies to enable marketplaces, sharing, product-as- a-service
• Data Analytics to increase supply chain transparancy
• Track and trace technologies to enable identification and monitoring of goods through the value chain and through their lifetime (sourcing, usage)
• Big data and AI to identify new potential demand and supply connections in secondary markets, or uncover underlying needs and ways to create value
• Blockchain to enable data security in digital interactions and transactions, increasing trust

This event, brought to you by the Circular Economy Network(CEN), will dive into a few of these digital solutions and explain how they address the challenges of transitioning from a linear to a circular economy. The speakers will present their vision of a circular economy and the practical implementation of it, after which participants will build on these perspectives in small break out groups.

AGENDA

6.20-6.30 pm -- Arrival

6:30-7:20 pm -- Speaker presentations

7:20-7.40 pm -- Q&A

7.40-8.15 pm -- Creative workshop

8.15-8:30 pm -- Report backs

The CEN aims to convene a multitude of stakeholders to actively engage in discussing solutions to transition towards a more circular, regenerative world. Follow the CEN on Twitter for the latest on our monthly events.

SPEAKER BIOS

Christopher Cooke

Christopher Cooke is the Director of Technical Development at the Sustainability Consortium where he oversees the creation TSC's tools for sustainability measurement and reporting. Prior to joining The Consortium, Christopher developed an energy sustainability strategy and action plan for the government of Hawaii Island. While with the New York Academy of Sciences, he investigated clean technology policy for New York State. Christopher holds a Master of Environment Science degree from Yale University, where he studied industrial ecology and conducted research in life cycle assessment. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from New York University. @TSC_News

Louisa Durkin

Louisa started her career in public health and the plant science field, where she gained significant experience learning the intricacies of farming, gardening, and permaculture through organizations like the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast and Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory at the New York Botanical Garden. Her interest in blockchain technology began in 2015, moving to New York City and researching blockchain technology and its capacity for exchange in different community types. Louisa is a co-founder of Future Culture a non-profit partnership of community developers, tech entrepreneurs, and social engineers focused on intelligent activism. Our aim is to empower communities through development of fair and cooperative systems. Future Culture has a recognized stance on the implications of blockchain technology for reputation, identity, and international regulation. Members are key speakers at tech forums and conferences, advise in blockchain related security and identity projects, and are deeply involved in local community development programs. @Future__Culture

VENUE SPONSOR

The Hub@GCT is a one-of-a-kind space purpose-built to support and materially advance the prospects of entrepreneurs and companies seeking to address New York City’s most pressing urban challenges in sectors such as energy, waste, sustainability, transportation, agriculture, and water. Selected companies will benefit from brand new, custom office space provided at well-below-market rates in addition to bespoke programming and resources to serve their needs.

https://www.hubatgct.com/
@GCTech

#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ClosedLoop #Digital #Tech #Technology #Blockchain #Materials #SupplyChain #Lifecycle

Circular Economy Network (CEN) Event: "Circularity in the Built Environment" 8 Feb 2018

Circular Economy Network (CEN) co-founders, Tessa Vlaanderen and Sarah Bloomquist, are thrilled to announce our next event! Join us Thursday, February 8, 6:30-8:30pm, at Häfele Showroom in Manhattan for the CEN's 2018 kick-off event: "Circularity in the Built Environment." We'll hear from three New York based thought leaders about their work in creating a more circular built environment

SPEAKERS & THEMES

• Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant, Colden Corporation. Theme: The Circular Economy and Disclosure – Surprising Lessons from the Field
• Marc Gee, Principal at GLUCK+. Theme: Modular Building and How a Design-Build Approach Enables Innovation in the Built Environment
• Tiffany Broyles Yost, Energy, Sustainability & Building Physics Associate at Arup. Theme: Circularity Lab Partnership with Google

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/circularity-in-the-built-environment-tickets-42641529964

The event is open to all experience levels. The speakers will present their vision of a circular economy and the practical implementation of it, after which participants will build on these perspectives in small break out groups.

The CEN was founded in 2017 by Tessa Vlaanderen and Sarah Bloomquist to convene a multitude of stakeholders to actively engage in discussing solutions to transition towards a more circular, regenerative world. Follow the CEN on Twitter for the latest on our monthly events. The CEN aims to convene a multitude of stakeholders to actively engage in discussing solutions to transition towards a more circular, regenerative world. Follow the CEN on Twitter for the latest on our monthly events.

AGENDA

6.20-6.30 pm -- Arrival

6:30-7:20 pm -- Speaker presentations

7:20-8 pm -- Creative workshop

8-8:30 pm -- Report backs and Q&A

SPEAKER BIOS

Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant, Colden Corporation

Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant with the health, safety and environmental firm of Colden Corporation, has delved deeply into the chemical composition of building products. She conducts air monitoring in manufacturing facilities and offices. Catherine consults with architects, sustainability consultants and manufacturers on sustainable design, including LEED, Living Building Challenge and WELL, integrating chemical restrictions, certifications and test protocols, for informed selection of lower impact building products. Through Clean Production Action, Catherine achieved accreditation as an Authorized GreenScreen PractitionerTM for chemical hazard assessments. She has collaborated with Building Product Ecosystems, and serves on the Technical Committee of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, committed to continuous improvement through transparency, openness and innovation in the product supply chain.

Marc Gee, Principal at GLUCK+

Marc Gee is a principal at GLUCK+, an architecture, construction and development firm in New York City. The practice is committed to crafting bold and conceptually unique architecture, with most work constructed by the firm’s unique Architect Led Design Build (ALDB) approach. Consistently recognized through national and international design awards and publications, GLUCK+ has been featured in Architectural Record’s “The New Master Builders,” by The Architect’s Newspaper with “Inside Architecture’s One-Stop Shop” and named by Fast Company in 2014 as one of “The World’s Top 10 Innovative Companies in Architecture,” ‘for taking control of the entire building process.’ Mr. Gee has been involved in projects as architect and on-site construction manager including the recent award-winning Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, a $26 million public/private initiative in Crotona Park, Bronx, which The New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman hailed in April 2017 as "one of the city's best new works of public architecture;" The Stack, New York’s first prefabricated steel and concrete modular residential building development, which received a 2015 AIANY/BSA Housing Honor Award; and currently, 150 Rivington, a luxury condominium development in the Lower East Side. He was also on-site construction supervisor for The East Harlem School, which won an AIA Architecture Honor Award in 2010, and received a Citation of Excellence from BusinessWeek/Architectural Record’s ‘Good Design is Good Business’ Award in 2009. Mr. Gee earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic University and State University. Website: www.gluckplus.com. Twitter & Instagram: @gluck_plus

Tiffany Broyles Yost, Energy, Sustainability & Building Physics Associate, Arup

Tiffany Broyles Yost is an architect and sustainability specialist with over 15 years of experience working on a diverse range high performance buildings and sustainable master plans. She is an Associate at Arup where she leads sustainable buildings consulting within New York’s Energy and Sustainability group. Her work focuses on sustainable and circular design and looks to create buildings and environments that add to the comfort and wellbeing of their occupants. Tiffany holds a Masters of Architecture in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London and a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Kentucky.

VENUE SPONSOR

Häfele America on Social Responsibility: Our stated goal – and an integral part of our philosophy – is to take responsibility, think holistically and act in the best interests of our planet and its inhabitants. On a social level we seek to enhance quality-of-life for our employees, their families and the communities in which they live. Globally, we follow practices that support environmental safety and sustainability. That’s because our responsibility is to future generations as well as the present.

Thanks and see you there!

-Tessa and Sarah, CEN CO-Founders

Circular Economy Network (CEN) Event: "Designing a Human-Centered Circular Economy" 12 Dec 2017

We're excited to announce the lineup for the next Circular Economy Network (CEN) event on December 12th in Brooklyn! Thanks to those of you who were able to join us for our kick-off event in October at the Danish Cleantech Hub where we heard from four thought leaders in the Circular Economy (CE). We're thrilled to continue the energy and momentum at our next event where we'll hear from three new speakers on "Designing a Human-Centered Circular Economy." As with our first event, we'll hear from each speaker then form breakout groups for small discussion, followed by brief report backs and Q&A with the speakers.

Details below. Register here and we look forward to seeing you soon!

DATE: Tuesday, December 12, 2017

TIME: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST

LOCATION: Urban Future Lab, Hosted by the Danish Cleantech Hub, 15 MetroTech Center, 19th fl, Brooklyn, NY 11204

In this December gathering of the Circular Economy Network, three New York based thought leaders will cover three very different perspectives of a circular economy:

• Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor of Culture and Media at The New School, and author of, among others, Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy.Theme: business models for an inclusive sharing economy
• Mark Prommel, Design Director at Pensa, an industrial design and consultancy firm in NYC. Theme: product design
• Ranjith Annepu, Co-Founder of Be Waste Wise and Waste Management consultant. Theme: circular economy in developing countries

The event is open to all experience levels. The speakers will present their vision of a circular economy and the practical implementation of it, after which participants will build on these perspectives in small break out groups.

AGENDA

6.20-6.30 pm -- Arrival

6:30-7:20 pm -- Speaker presentations

7:20-7:30 pm -- Convene into small groups

7:30- 8 pm -- Small group discussions

8-8:30 pm -- Convene into full group for report backs and Q&A

SPEAKER BIOS

Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor of Culture and Media at The New School

Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016) develops an analysis of the challenges posed by digital labor and introduces the concept of platform cooperativism as a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance. His next book will focus on the prospects of the cooperative online economy. His edited volumes include Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory (Routledge, 2013), and Ours to Hack and to Own: Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (eds. with Nathan Schneider, OR Books, 2016). In 2009, Scholz started to convene the influential digital labor conferences at The New School. Today, he frequently presents on the future of work, solidarity, and the Internet to media scholars, cooperativists, lawyers, activists, designers, developers, union leaders, and policymakers worldwide. Scholz is a member of the Barcelona Advisory Council on Technological Sovereignty. His articles and ideas have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education,Le Monde, and The Washington Post.

Mark Prommel, Design Director at Pensa

Mark is a partner and the design director at Pensa where he leads and mentors a diverse group of multi-faceted designers working at the crossroads of design and invention. Throughout his 19+ years in product design, he has followed his passion for shaping the physical products that enhance everyday life. Mark has received numerous design awards including IDEA awards, CLIO, Fast Company Innovation by Design, Core 77 Design Awards, and Good Design Awards. He is also an inventor on dozens of design and utility patents. In addition to his many years of successful client-based work, he has led the design teams on Pensa’s award winning internal efforts such as Street Charge and the Merge Urban Bicycle.

Ranjith Annepu, Co-Founder of Be Waste Wise and International Waste Management Consultant

Ranjith Annepu is a Co-Founder of be Waste Wise and an International Waste Management Consultant. He builds tools, systems, and institutions which can foster and support long-term improvement in well-being on our rapidly changing planet. He holds a Master’s degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. He works in South and South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle East. He consults for the World Bank Group, and the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University to improve decision making in investments and governance through technology and policy analysis, life cycle analysis, capacity building and knowledge dissemination. He also manages a grant for waste management organizations in India and is the India Coordinator for the Global WTERT Council.

SPONSORS

The Danish Cleantech Hub engages with public and private New York stakeholders interested in learning from the Danish experience. They provide a forum for informational exchange on new approaches and solutions within energy efficiency, climate adaptation, and resiliency.

ABOUT THE CEN

The Circular Economy Network (CEN) is a new collaborative brought to you by circular economy catalysts Sarah Bloomquist and Tessa Vlaanderen. We aim to advance regenerative systems locally and globally through our monthly interactive forums comprised of CE pitches followed by small breakout group discussions. All experience levels welcome and a desire to learn and collaborate is required.

Twitter: @CircEconomyNYC @SBloomquist @TessaVlaanderen
Email: CircularEconomyNetwork@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12068372