Circular Economy Principles & Applications Part 1 | Ep. #52

<p>This episode is Part 1 of the three part series.</p> <p>Our guest for today is <a href="https://www.jannis.world/">Jannis Kempkens</a> is one of the coolest instructors of the course <a href="https://www.terra.do/building-a-circular-economy/">Circular Economy: Principals &amp; Applications</a> by the popular online climate school <a href="https://www.terra.do/building-a-circular-economy/">Terra.do</a>.</p> <p>He is a designer, material researcher &amp; furniture carpenter who has soiled his hands with countless experiments on materials such as plastics, organic wastes etc. and him &amp; his team have shared those learning on their open source platform, which empowers global audience to carryout their own DIY circular project which even includes blueprints for developing small machines that aid those experiments. In fact if any of you are in final year of engineering and you are hunting for project ideas, then make sure to check out the links for Jannis’s profile -&gt; <a href="https://www.jannis.world/">https://www.jannis.world/</a>.</p> <p>Show Notes:</p> <ul> <li>Product &amp; industrial design often go hand in hand;</li> <li>The role of the designer is dangerous, because you are convincing people that this product is going to solve your problem;</li> <li>Circular Economy in German translates to Kreislaufwirtschaft;</li> <li>Jannis got associated with Terra.do via their <a href="https://www.terra.do/climate-change-learning-for-action/">Climate Change</a> course;</li> <li>Topic of circular economy is only formalizing concepts that so far was only informal ..circular economy takes it a step further;</li> <li>The link between climate change, climate action and circular economy is often overlooked;</li> </ul> <p>About the course:</p> <p><a href="https://www.terra.do/building-a-circular-economy-business?utm_source=cecourse_pod_circbusiness&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Webinar" target="_blank">Circular Economy: Principles and Applications</a> is focused on the actionable, real-life examples, pract