The Great Recovery - Redesigning the future

Janet Gunter, the co-founder of The Restart Project, and a communications specialist who works in global development, gives us an insight into their brilliant volunteer ‘Restarters’. Continue reading →

Written for the Guardians new Resource Efficiency Hub, Great Recovery project leader Sophie Thomas explores how waste is a design flaw and how we need to rethink products to ensure fewer end up on the mountain of e-waste. Continue reading →

Tagged with: circular economy / design / e-waste

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Teresa Anderson, the International Advocacy Co-ordinator for the Gaia Foundation, introduces the foundations new report ‘Short Circuit’, and discussed the effects our short lived but much lusted after gadgets. Continue reading →

Tagged with: e-waste / Guest Blog / rare earth metals

Alexie Sommer, Director of Communications for Thomas.Matthews, recounts her experience volunteering for a beach clean up in Hawaii. Continue reading →

Tagged with: Guest Blog / plastic

Lewis Foster is a designer/filmmaker and a recent graduate of LCC. He is particularly interested in what goes into the products we consume on a daily basis. Here he tells us about his project, I, Pencil. Continue reading →

Tagged with: design / education / elements / Guest Blog

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