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Circular Economy - And Open Source + Hacking As Paths To It
The document discusses the importance of the circular economy, open source principles, and hacking as essential pathways to sustainability. It highlights issues such as environmental degradation, the increase in global population and wealth, and the challenges of industrialization, emphasizing the need for innovative business models and community collaboration. The author advocates for transparency, knowledge sharing, and open source hardware to facilitate repairs and recycling, ultimately aiming to shift towards a more sustainable and circular system.
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- 1. CIRCULAR ECONOMY & OpenSource & Hacking as Paths to it Lars Zimmermann @bricktick
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- 41. Recycle Without loosingany quality of the material same material
- 42. Recycle Without loosingany quality of the material same material
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- 64. WELL ... These ideaswe know for decades
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- 67. WHY ? do peoplethink we need it?
- 68. 1. 6 %of all people that ever lived live right now. (Worldometers) 2. Global wealth is growing; ‚3 billion new customers will enter the market in the next 20-30 years’ (Mckinsey) 3. 2016 was the hottest year on record (NASA), 4. Industrialization pollutes and poisons the environment: Biodiversity is in decline, 58 000 animal species die every year = 160 a day (Der Spiegel) 5. Globalization: Air traffic and seafreight increasing constantly! 6. Our economy is still largely based on non renewable resources like oil, gas, rare metals... That are ever harder to get... +
- 73. 1. 6 %of all people that ever lived live right now. (Worldometers) 2. Global wealth is growing; ‚3 billion new customers will enter the market in the next 20-30 years’ (Mckinsey) 3. 2016 was the hottest year on record (NASA), 4. Industrialization pollutes and poisons the environment: Biodiversity is in decline, 58 000 animal species die every year = 160 a day (Der Spiegel) 5. Globalization: Air traffic and seafreight increasing constantly! 6. Our economy is still largely based on non renewable resources like oil, gas, rare metals... That are ever harder to get... +
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- 76. 1. 6 %of all people that ever lived live right now. (Worldometers) 2. Global wealth is growing; ‚3 billion new customers will enter the market in the next 20-30 years’ (Mckinsey) 3. 2016 was the hottest year on record (NASA), 4. Industrialization pollutes and poisons the environment: Biodiversity is in decline, 58 000 animal species die every year = 160 a day (Der Spiegel) 5. Globalization: Air traffic and seafreight increasing constantly! 6. Our economy is still largely based on non renewable resources like oil, gas, rare metals... That are ever harder to get... +
- 77. 1. 6 %of all people that ever lived live right now. (Worldometers) 2. Global wealth is growing; ‚3 billion new customers will enter the market in the next 20-30 years’ (Mckinsey) 3. 2016 was the hottest year on record (NASA), 4. Industrialization pollutes and poisons the environment: Biodiversity is in decline, 58 000 animal species die every year = 160 a day (Der Spiegel) 5. Globalization: Air traffic and seafreight increasing constantly! 6. Our economy is still largely based on non renewable resources like oil, gas, rare metals... That are ever harder to get... + / + | ° ° ° ° |
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- 83. Examples Some early exampleslooking for new ways:
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- 98. Ok. So muchfor the design of products.
- 99. Ok. So muchfor the design of products. Let‘s now go one level up
- 100. Ok. So muchfor the design of products. Let‘s now go one level up & look into the design of
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- 115. It is muchharder to hack (repair, reuse, recycle) black boxes And it is much harder to do it alone...
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- 118. Open source hardwareis hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it. . . . definition at: oshwa.org/definition
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- 122. RapRap 3d Printer TV-B-Gone WikiHouse Poppy– Open Source Robot Open Energy Monitor OS-Vehicle Arduino Open Wheels Open Source Ecology FarmBot OS-Vehicle Open Desk SparkFun Open Source Hardware Examples
- 123. OPEN SOURCE enablesTRANSPARENCY and still or therefore! allows to run stable projects and businesses!
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- 126. BUSINESS MODELS FORA CIRCULAR WASHING MACHINE 1. Longevity: As a selling point. You warrant. 2. Leasing: The manufacturer still owns the machine – so there is an interest for a longlasting and circular machine. 3. Sell washes: Not the machine: A manufacturer places a machine in the customers house and sells 10 000 washes. The manufacturer maintaines the machine. 4. Sell clean clothes: Not the machine: A company comes by and picks your dirty laundry and delivers clean clothes. They have an interest in longlasting, repairable machines running in their factory.
- 127. BUSINESS MODELS FORA CIRCULAR WASHING MACHINE 1. Longevity: As a selling point. You warrant. 2. Leasing: The manufacturer still owns the machine – so there is an interest for a longlasting and circular machine. 3. Sell washes: Not the machine: A manufacturer places a machine in the customers house and sells 10 000 washes. The manufacturer maintaines the machine. 4. Sell clean clothes: Not the machine: A company comes by and picks your dirty laundry and delivers clean clothes. They have an interest in longlasting, repairable machines running in their factory. + But these models do not work for everything ...
- 128. BUSINESS MODELS FORA CIRCULAR WASHING MACHINE 1. Longevity: As a selling point. You warrant. 2. Leasing: The manufacturer still owns the machine – so there is an interest for a longlasting and circular machine. 3. Sell washes: Not the machine: A manufacturer places a machine in the customers house and sells 10 000 washes. The manufacturer maintaines the machine. 4. Sell clean clothes: Not the machine: A company comes by and picks your dirty laundry and delivers clean clothes. They have an interest in longlasting, repairable machines running in their factory. + But these models do not work for everything ...
- 129. + 5. The OpenSource Model! – Build a circular washing machine Open Source – as a platform everyone can plug in and maintain, reuse, repurpose and recycle.
- 130. VIDEO series andTOOL about Open Source Business Models for Circular economy at: oscedays.org/b1 + a bunch of consultants happy to explain it to you. Find them by contacting: openitagency.eu
- 131. There is aproject (disclaimer: I am a part of it)
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- 136. But truth is, the‚circular economy‘ is mostly talk.
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- 138. QUESTIONS FOR YOU 1.Do you know circular products or processes around you? 2. What can you do to help the shift to a circular world? 3. If you were the CEO of a large company and you want it to become circular – what would you do? 4. (Look around you in this room. Do you see any circular things?) Pick one to think about and let‘s discuss for a while
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- 140. PART II ... &let‘s go back one more time into interstellar space ...
- 141. Apollo 8 IconicEarth Shot „Blue Marble“ !969
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- 144. BUT WHAT HASHAPPENED in terms of circularity? ... very little ... WHY!?
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- 146. LOCK-IN Ss EFFECT cars – universities– planes – balance board ... linear lock-in
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- 148. LOCK-IN Ss EFFECT cars – universities– planes – balance board ... linear lock-in
- 149. HOW TO GETOUT OF THIS ‚PRISION‘?
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- 151. HACKING = to breaka systems limitations & (completely) repurposing it with only small modifications to it
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- 157. BUILD THINGS EASYTO HACK!
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- 159. Circular Street WasteWorkshop with Kids & Adults mifactori.de
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- 161. Well... and openthings are easier to hack! as said before
- 162. 3 TAKE AWAYMESSAGES: 1. Circular Economy is a cool thing! 2. Open Source is the way to do it! (But we need to invent OS a lot further.) 3. Hacking is the way to get there!
- 163. 3 TAKE AWAYMESSAGES: 1. Circular Economy is a cool thing! 2. Open Source is the way to do it! (But we need to invent OS a lot further.) 3. Hacking is the way to get there!
- 164. – THANK YOU– For the Attention! LARS ZIMMERMANN Twitter @bricktick Facebook lars.zimmermann.716 Website larszimmermann.de PROJECTS Open Source Circular Economy Days oscedays.org Open It Agency openitagency.eu The City Is Open Source thecityisopensource.de Mifactori mifactori.de
- 165. – THANK YOU– For the Attention! LARS ZIMMERMANN Twitter @bricktick Facebook lars.zimmermann.716 Website larszimmermann.de PROJECTS Open Source Circular Economy Days oscedays.org Open It Agency openitagency.eu The City Is Open Source thecityisopensource.de Mifactori mifactori.de