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The SEP encourages schools to make cross-sectoral collaborations an integral part of school life, creating enhanced educational and personal development opportunities for everyone involved.

By most people’s standards, Sweden is a paradise for liberated women. It has the highest proportion of working women in the world, and women earn about two-thirds of all degrees. Standard parental leave runs at 480 days, and 60 of those days are reserved exclusively for dads, causing some to...

Future in kids toys?!

Biofoam - sustainable alternative to expanded polystyrene

Microsoft's Concept - Future vision 2020

"The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture."

In a new speculative project, IDEO has come up with three wild concepts to show the potential of automobility over the next 15 years.

Medical nanobots -

Diseases like cancer are easy to target and to fight against. With the use of nanobots, it will be possible to detect tumours earlier and target them with more precision. Even the terminally patients will be saved.

Bag&Buy

No packaging anymore in supermarket: you bring your own pot/bag/bottle

Population will peak in 2055 and then decrease.

The world population will peak at 8.7 billion people in 2055 and then decline to 8 billion by 2100.

Future prediction lists on various topics, with reference links!

Products & technology

Ken Webster - Head of Learning from The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (UK) introduces the concept of a circular economy. The end of the era of cheap fossil fuel...

Zero Marginal Economy

While producing and sharing virtual and physical goods at near zero marginal cost in the sharing economy on the Collaborative Commons vastly improves the economic quality life of millions of people, and decreases the amount of the earth’s resources needed to sustain a healthy society, it reduces the GDP at the same time.

#http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/07/30/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-and-End-GDP

It will change how we consume

"Our relationship with the products and services we purchase could be radicalised under a circular economy. What if we didn't buy the goods we use, but instead favoured access and performance over ownership? The 'pay per use' contractual agreements associated with smartphones for example could be extended to standard goods such as washing machines, clothes and DIY equipment. Philips, Kingfisher Group andMud Jeans are already piloting product-as-service models, which would see us become users rather than consumers. Such a shift would not only allow companies to retain product ownership for easier repair, reuse and remanufacture, but might result in producer responsibilityobligations being extended to users as part of the purchase agreement."

#futureproblem #consuming #http://www.circulareconomyaustralia.com/blog1/

Designing for a circular economy

Gone are the days of sustainable design. Now we have to learn to think about lifecycles, and designers have a key role to play.

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We need to all start getting curious about product lifecycles. Where did the Tantalum come from in my phone, and why were people fighting over it? When I put a biodegradable plastic bottle in the recycling bin, where does it actually go? Start doing this and you’ll never look at an object in the same way again. Look out for products that you can lease, upgrade or take back, and start talking to your clients about product lifecycles before they start rewriting your briefs. You’ll not only be helping our society change to a life-saving circular economy, you’ll be future-proofing your career as well.

#mindsetchange

#http://www.greatrecovery.org.uk/designing-for-a-circular-economy/

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