Designing Closed-Loop Cities
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The circular economy 😍 is a model of production 💪 and consumption🛍️, which involves sharing👯♀️, leasing🫣, reusing🥰, repairing🔨, refurbishing💯 and recycling❤️🔥 existing materials and products as long as possible 😍 send to 5️⃣ people who won’t shut the fuck‼️ up about walkable cities, so they have something new 🤓 to go feral about💞💝
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Obsessed with walkable cities?
New hyperfixation just dropped: The Circular Economy
Circular Case Study #1: A world in which one industry’s trash is another industry’s treasure
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[meme] I bring a sort of shut down the extractive consumerism economy and replace it with one where resources cycle vibe to the workplace that capitalists don’t really like
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In nature, there’s no such thing as ‘waste’. Everything that dies or is discarded, like falling leaves, will decompose and return to the Earth as nutrients for more life to grow. For thousands of years, humans built complex societies in which resources cycled, just like they do in nature.
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Capitalists built a ‘linear’ system: one in which resources are extracted from nature, turned into products, and then disposed of and replaced with something new.
That idea was, obviously, fucked: The global economy is 5x larger than it was 50 years ago, and that growth has been accompanied by the degradation of 75% of the world’s ecosystems.
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Is it possible for our cities to operate without waste?
In Chicago, an old firehouse has been repurposed into a small-scale collaborative economy that has housed a vertical garden, restaurants, a composting facility, aquaponics, a business incubator, kombucha + beer breweries, fungi research, and more.
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Plant Chicago, while a small project, can serve as a model for how cities can function on the large scale with drastically less waste.
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Is it possible for our cities to operate without waste?
Coffee grounds from the café are used in the bakery’s oven as fuel for making bread, and fish are fed compost from the restaurants while their waste provides nutrients for crops growing in the aquaponics system.
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Different systems of production creatively working together to minimize waste and make the most out of a small amount of resources is not a brand new technosave – it’s simply a return to our ancestor’s practices.
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[meme] Me learning that humans don’t have to be bad for the planet and that salvation lies in Indigenous knowledge
My ancestors who have been waiting for me to overthrow the colonizers since chrissy first sailed the oceans blue
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
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