{"id":509,"date":"2023-12-04T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=509"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:59:07","slug":"circular-economy-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/12\/04\/circular-economy-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular economy &#8211; prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Choose a kind of material object you regularly interact with that is not part a circular economic system. (Which is probably almost anything!) Speculate on how this kind of object could redesigned to be part of a circular economy, by changing its composition and connected infrastructures. In addition to the material components, what other social aspects that we\u2019ve discussed throughout the course would need to change as well for this to be a desirable future?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Readings from this week:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\">McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Waste Equals Food.\u201d In<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. 1st ed. New York: North Point Press, 2002, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\">92-117<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Visual Capitalist. \u201cVisualized: The Circular Economy 101,\u201d January 13, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/metals.visualcapitalist.com\/sp\/visualized-the-circular-economy-101\/\">https:\/\/metals.visualcapitalist.com\/sp\/visualized-the-circular-economy-101\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Genovese, Andrea, and Mario Pansera. \u201cThe Circular Economy at a Crossroads: Technocratic Eco-Modernism or Convivial Technology for Social Revolution?\u201d <i>Capitalism Nature Socialism<\/i> 32, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 95\u2013113. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10455752.2020.1763414\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10455752.2020.1763414<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Also feel free to include the utopian readings from last week, or any others that are relevant!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a kind of material object you regularly interact with that is not part a circular economic system. (Which is probably almost anything!) Speculate on how this kind of object could redesigned to be part of a circular economy, by changing its composition and connected infrastructures. In addition to the material components, what other social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circular-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}