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Stockholm water weekCircular economy and water

What kind of world do you want to live in?

Wealth is created and natural systems thrive

System thinkers

Cradle to CradleMichael Braungarten and William McDonough

The Performance EconomyWalter Stahel

Industrial EcologyThomas E Graedel

Natural CapitalAmory Lovins

BiomimicryJanine Beynus

Huge economic opportunities

Global $1 tn (2 sectors)

Europe $900bn (3 sectors)

India $500 bn (3 sectors)

2012 2015 2016

Circular EconomyModel

Design out waste and externalitiesKeep products and materials in useRegenerate natural capital

Wealth is created and natural systems thrive

CE Principle Water connection

Regenerate Natural Capital

Think in systems

#Idea 1

CE Principle Water connection

Keep products and materials in use

Design looped systems

#Idea 2

CE Principle Water connection

Design out waste Cascade value from wastewater

#Idea 3

Wastewater plants Biorefineries

THINK in systemsDESIGN in loopsCAPTURE value

Circular economy and water

“After I learnt about the circular economy, I wanted to go out and redesign the world”

Overheard by student on Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship program