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Beyond fast fashion: A circular future for textiles
02 June 2025 - Are 19 kg of new clothing, shoes and household textiles consumed per person per year in Europe too much? How do we make the textiles system more circular and sustainable? The European Environment Agency has recently published a briefing Circularity of...
11 June 2025 - The world is facing a "polycrisis." Climate change, economic inequality, environmental degradation, food and energy shortages, geopolitical conflicts, political instability, and the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic aren't separate problems – they all ...
04 June 2025 - How did you get involved with The Club of Rome?
When I joined in 2012, The Club of Rome was a pretty homogenous group. The co-presidents asked me to join to disrupt the comfortable nature of this. I’m good at that, so I joined. I was then asked to join the ...
02 June 2025 - Are 19 kg of new clothing, shoes and household textiles consumed per person per year in Europe too much? How do we make the textiles system more circular and sustainable?
The European Environment Agency has recently published a briefing Circularity of the EU ...
28 May 2025 - What was the driving force in your career shift towards looking at inner transformation and systems change?
I started out as a medical doctor, working on health at an individual level. Gradually I started expanding my view to consider larger populations. As ...
26 May 2025 - We are relational beings, constantly engaged in the exchange of information, meaning making and intricacies of imagining the future. Trust is foundational to these processes. On a microlevel, it shapes how we move through the world. On a macrolevel, it determines ...
19 May 2025 - Many crises face us, but two are existential: the climate crisis and the threats to democracy around the world. For 30 years, the world’s governments, working through the United Nations, have negotiated to keep global warming within “safe levels” of temperature ...
14 May 2025 - We are in a dramatic period of genuine darkness of reason and the human world now seems to find itself in a strange and complex situation of instability and precariousness, I would venture to say above all, of mental and cultural health.
What is completely ...
07 May 2025 - When something happens beyond our control, we react to the circumstances and we also try, maybe later, to make sense of it. On 28 April 2025, Monday, for the first time in history, Spain suffered a massive electricity outage, which also affected Portugal. Power ...
26 April 2025 - On this Earth Day, we’re called to reflect not only on our relationship with the planet but also on the systems of thought that shape how we live with it. The challenges facing Earth today—climate chaos, ecological degradation, social inequity—are symptoms of a ...
22 April 2025 - Rumours swirl that the US administration plans to symbolically undermine environmental NGOs and philanthropic organisations, possibly on Earth Day, mirroring its recent heavy-handed threats against Colombia and Harvard University and continuing its onslaught on ...
07 March 2025 - As the world faces growing environmental challenges, the circular economy transforms a linear "take-make-dispose" model to a regenerative system focused on reuse, repair and resource efficiency. We can build a more sustainable and equitable future by redesigning ...
07 March 2025 - The Draghi report warns of stagnation, but does Europe need more growth—or a new economic vision?
The recent Draghi report on European Union competitiveness highlights the structural weaknesses that have contributed to the bloc’s relatively low economic growth ...
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