The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) just released their 2022 Agricultural Census. While this report predominantly serves as a guide for federal farm programs, policy, and funding decisions, it also provides us with valuable data that has cross-sector implications in urban…
Dr. Christina Clamp Selected for the Cooperative Hall of Fame
Dr. Christina Clamp, ASBN co-coordinator of the Catalyzing Community Well-Being Initiative and co-editor of Humanity@Work & Life, has been selected for induction into the U.S. Cooperative Hall of Fame
American Businesses Support the EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standards
American Businesses Support the EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standards On June 14th, 2023 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a virtual public hearing on the proposed rule to cut climate pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. American Sustainable Business Network’s (ASBN) Director of Climate…
Glasgow Agreement Text Released and a Surprise Announcement
During the high-level announcements earlier this week, COP 26 President Alok Sharma (UK) called for turning high-level rhetoric into action, urging a “change in gear” in the negotiations to reach an ambitious outcome. Several parts of a recently released draft text step up to the moment while there…
The Circular Economy and Circularity: Unpacking Furniture and Beyond
ASBN hosted on Wednesday, June 2 at 1pm ET The Circular Economy and Circularity: Unpacking Furniture and Beyond, a panel discussion with L. Christina Cobb (UrbisEco) and Sustainability Consultant; Simonil Rustomji (mebl | Transforming Furniture), and Tone Søndergaard (Circular City Week New York and Danish Cleantech Hub).
The session explored how sectors can embrace circularity and the circular economy, through the lens of the furniture industry. We’ll identify circular solutions to the problems of waste, deforestation, and toxic pollution. We’ll also delve into circular approaches including: keeping products in use through sharing, renting, reselling and extended producer responsibility; keeping materials in use through reclaiming, recycling, and upcycling; and regenerating natural systems. We will highlight organizations and businesses leading the way, and the challenges to large-scale adoption of circularity in furniture and other industries.
This session was co-sponsored by mebl | Transforming Furniture and UrbisEco.
In partnership with JumpScale, The Accountkeepers, Bromberger Law, SustainVC, GoodCarts, Impact Makers,Trillium Asset Management, Perlman & Perlman, CNote, Junxion, and Hanson Bridgett.