Circular Business Podcast

Circular Economy Principles & Applications Part 1 | Ep. #52


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This episode is Part 1 of the three part series.

Our guest for today is Jannis Kempkens is one of the coolest instructors of the course Circular Economy: Principals & Applications by the popular online climate school Terra.do.

He is a designer, material researcher & furniture carpenter who has soiled his hands with countless experiments on materials such as plastics, organic wastes etc. and him & his team have shared those learning on their open source platform, which empowers global audience to carryout their own DIY circular project which even includes blueprints for developing small machines that aid those experiments. In fact if any of you are in final year of engineering and you are hunting for project ideas, then make sure to check out the links for Jannis’s profile -> https://www.jannis.world/.

Show Notes:

  • Product & industrial design often go hand in hand;
  • The role of the designer is dangerous, because you are convincing people that this product is going to solve your problem;
  • Circular Economy in German translates to Kreislaufwirtschaft;
  • Jannis got associated with Terra.do via their Climate Change course;
  • Topic of circular economy is only formalizing concepts that so far was only informal ..circular economy takes it a step further;
  • The link between climate change, climate action and circular economy is often overlooked;
  • About the course:

    Circular Economy: Principles and Applications is focused on the actionable, real-life examples, practitioner guest speakers, building your circularity toolbox, and working on a capstone project relevant to your work. If you're curious, here's a copy of the course syllabus - it is slated to start on July 15 and runs for 6 weeks. They're hosting an Ask Us Anything (https://bit.ly/econcircle) ! 

    Expert course creators are Austin Evarts and Jannis Kempkens.

    Oh and one more thing, Terra.do has extended a generous offer to all you listeners. In case you are interested to sign-up for the course, then use the code CircularPodcast to avail 25% discount on the course fee.

    Make sure to tune into the next episode to understand some dark and interesting realities of bio plastics / compostable plastics and green washing that lures you around plastics..

    Keywords : What is a circular economy? ; Circular Economy Podcast ; Circular Business Models ; Circular Design

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