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2: Can a city act like a forest?

2: Can a city act like a forest?

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For billions of years natural habitats have thrived by producing vast quantities of materials for growth without creating landfill or waste. Materiom have been taking notes. By turning the abundance of materials around us into the building blocks for new growth — and sharing that data open-source — they are helping us rethink our relationship with waste.

Recorded remotely in March 2021

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Materiom’s website https://materiom.org/

Materiom’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/materiom_/

Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things, a 2002 book by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart about circular economies https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/108/1083868/cradle-to-cradle/9780099535478.html

Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

 
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