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Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
Discover how shifting our mindset toward nature’s intrinsic value can help solve the biodiversity crisis.
Climate finance after COP29: challenges and opportunities
Explore reflections from Metabolic’s Finance Team on COP29’s outcomes and opportunities for systemic change.
Principles of a New Economy
Discover how purpose-driven economic models promote sustainability and equity, guided by the principles of Metabolic…
We depend on nature
Explore the critical relationship between nature and the economy. This article delves into how understanding…
How to Design a Successful Theory of Change: A Guide for Entrepreneurs
A practical guide to design theory of change and create deep and lasting impact.
Applying Material Flow Analysis to develop Circular Cities
Ever since Metabolic was founded in 2012, we have looked at how we can achieve…
Your journey to a sustainable value chain starts here
Getting organizations ready for compliance with sustainability regulations is not simple. This page explains the…
A benchmark for the cities of the future: Metabolic’s Circular Urban Scan
The Circular Urban Scan: a holistic benchmarking tool evaluating sustainability of cities. Based on systems…
New partnership charts a path for systemic change in the EU
The Systems Transformation Hub is a pioneering venture designed to drive systemic solutions for Europe.
Unlocking the potential of circular makers in urban development
The EU CENTRINNO project highlighted the need for comprehensive policy for sustainable urban development that…
Development of new Cities’ Science-Based Targets for Nature launched at COP28
This program will create a framework that covers the impact of cities on both climate…
Our hopes for COP28
Despite the criticisms surrounding COP28, we cannot afford to skip this important moment of dialogue…
New white paper explores how the best companies manage both nature and business risks
With Systemiq, we explored how businesses can build off frameworks to connect “nature” into core…
Spectral to scale its operations with significant new investment
With its holistic approach, Spectral will use new funding to further its mission on the…
Unlocking the circular economy with data
Digital Product Passports have the potential to solve some of the biggest challenges in transitioning…
Tailored mapping tools for circular regeneration
How can (Fab) cities use the CENTRINNO Cartography to transform into circular urban ecosystems?
Introducing the Artichoke Theory of Risk
How can layered vegetables help us understand the risks of transformative ventures? A Silicon Valley…
Circular Buildings Coalition paves the way for a circular transition in the European built environment
Through research and funding Blueprint Projects, the Circular Buildings Coalition aims to accelerate the transition…
From polluted shipyards to a green district: 10 years of circularity in Amsterdam Noord
Over the past decade, Metabolic has been a driving force in redeveloping Buiksloterham into a…
New guidelines help companies set science-based targets for nature and climate
Metabolic collaborated with the Science Based Target Network to develop guidelines that help businesses make…
Science-based targets for nature: Setting ambitious and effective goals for biodiversity
Discover how science-based targets (SBTs) can help businesses set measurable goals for biodiversity conservation and…
Creating a nature-positive business: introducing a software solution for nature impact assessments
Link, by Metabolic Software, provides nature impact and risk assessment to support businesses setting nature…
Five ways your company’s relationship with nature drives your success
Protecting and restoring nature ensures not just a thriving planet, but a thriving business too.
New research: 6 strategies for building homes in the Netherlands within planetary boundaries
How can the Netherlands build hundreds of thousands of new homes while also reducing its…
How Regenerative Agriculture Can Help Us Achieve a Truly Circular Economy – A WCEF2023 Accelerator Session
The transition to a circular economy goes hand in hand with the transition towards a…
Metabolic and Cognizant collaborate to scale impact measurement for sustainability strategies
The collaboration is set to help clients turn their sustainability commitments into meaningful action.
Tools for Systemic Venture Building
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary…
Celebrating a decade of positive change
As Metabolic turns 10 this year, we marvel at how our team and our impact…
Cleveland’s Approach to Closing the Loop through Collaboration
The City of Cleveland is beginning an ambitious journey towards becoming North America’s leader in…
Metabolic and PwC join forces in ESG collaboration
Helping organizations accelerate their ESG strategies for sustainability Metabolic and PwC have embarked on a…
Staff picks: Seven thought-provoking sustainability books
Our team shares their favorite thought-provoking sustainability reads.
The Circular Toolbox delivers resources on sustainability in the built environment
From design to demolition, materials passports to circular revenue models, sustainability is a hot educational…
New multisector coalition to spearhead the regenerative and equitable circular transition in cities across the globe
Washington, DC/ Amsterdam, NL (May 18, 2022) — Five international organizations with a shared vision…
Preserving nature with science-based targets: How companies can track their impacts on nature and operate more sustainably
Metabolic has worked with companies and partners, including Bel Group, to reduce biodiversity damage —…
Big flows, big impacts: the economic, environmental, and social benefits of industrial symbiosis
Companies can form a system that optimizes their use of materials in a way that's…
Our systems approach, the power behind our sustainable solutions
From Thailand to Burkina Faso, here are two examples of how we use systems thinking…
The interconnected city:
Imagining our urban lives in 2050
By the year 2050, we will be interconnected with our planet, our communities, and our…
The interconnected city:
A nature-inclusive city allows species to thrive
Our nature-inclusive cities are green oases where all species thrive and planet is healthy once…
The interconnected city: Interconnected communities vital to healthy cities
Strengthening the connections in our communities turned cities into affordable, communal places for everyone.
The interconnected city: Reconnecting to resources brought our operations within planetary boundaries
Cities closed resource loops, adopted transparency as a core value, and reduced their footprints.
Systemic Venture Framework
At Metabolic Ventures, we believe that addressing our shared societal challenges will require evolving our…
Rethinking concrete to build more sustainable cities
Concrete has transformed the world as a durable and affordable construction material. To create a…
Starting small can go a long way: how living labs enable circular innovation
As the world urbanizes, cities are both vulnerable to climate change and in a powerful…
Circular strategies protect critical metal supplies — and our renewable energy transition
To transition to a renewable net-zero economy, we need vast amounts of specific metals to…
Stubborn optimism at COP26
As our team joins some of the dialogues and events surrounding the UN Climate Change…
World’s largest nature policy tracker launches at COP26
Nature-based solutions can help reduce emissions by one-third by 2030 if investment triples during that…
Insights from spatial data
As society’s reliance on a healthy natural system becomes increasingly clear, more and more companies…
How the public sector can use DLTs for good
Distributed Ledger Technology, the parent technology to blockchains and cryptocurrency, can play an important role…
Steward-ownership: Rethinking ownership for mission-driven ventures
Working with a razor-sharp focus on achieving their goals, mission-driven ventures are key to the…
How to put regenerative agriculture into practice
Regenerative agriculture is about farming in nature’s form, and nature is complex. Here's how companies…
Bringing consumption within planetary boundaries
Metabolic has collaborated with Dayrize.com, a new e-commerce platform in the UK, to develop a…
Organic vs regenerative farming: What’s the difference?
When it comes to the question of making our food systems more sustainable, organic farming…
Fresh is on a mission to fix the food system
Fresh Ventures Studio, a new venture builder from Metabolic and Impact Express, kicks off its…
How to create a sustainable bioeconomy
The bioeconomy is an increasingly important part of our world today, touching everything from food…
Regenerative agriculture: Farming in nature’s form
Regenerative agriculture is about reimagining our relationship with land. Let’s start at the bottom: with…
A roadmap for public and private sectors to build regenerative, circular cities
Thought leaders from the private and social sectors discussed the potential and the limitations of…
14 questions to guide entrepreneurs towards deep and lasting impact
Designing solutions and organizations that provide the best chances for success.
Circular Cities Program Poland develops strategies for unique cities and neighborhoods
Uncovering actionable insights and systemic strategies to drive the transition to a circular economy in…
How the right data supports a circular built environment
With data on the availability of reusable or recycled materials, architects and the construction industry…
Recycling Unpacked Webinar: Maximizing Circularity in U.S. Beverage Packaging
During Circular City Week New York, Metabolic hosted the webinar ‘Recycling Unpacked: Maximizing Circularity in…
New mechanisms for cities and finance to drive Dutch circular economy innovation
New research reveals a large funding gap for circular economy initiatives in the Netherlands, particularly…
If you can measure it, you can manage it: how the agri-food sector can protect biodiversity
The effects of agriculture on nature go far beyond the carbon footprint. To paint a full…
Rotterdam’s circular remedies treat the cause, not the symptoms
There’s a popular expression around the city of Rotterdam that describes trying in vain to…
Recycling, downcycling and the need for a circular economy
Not all recycling is created equal. We explore the differences between recycling, upcycling, and downcycling…
From Buildings to Resources: The Role of Urban Mining in Circular Cities
Why do we extract, produce, and transport scarce primary materials from mines around the world,…
Envisioning urban food systems: a journey through Amsterdam in 2050
Chris Monaghan travelled to 2050 to see how a circular urban food model and smart…
Cities must actively shape development to combat climate change
As we recover from the COVID-19 crisis, we have a responsibility to change things for…
Circular Cities Webinar: Denver, Boulder and Beyond
‘Denver, Boulder and Beyond’ during Circular Cities Week, a webinar designed to explore circular cities…
Using data-driven logistics to collect waste streams separately
First published on Amsterdam Smart City The circular economy is becoming the new normal, and data…
Cities should track emissions from the goods they import
First published on Greenbiz By only measuring and reducing emissions within their borders, cities are…
4 systemic hotspots for circular waste management: A Danish case study
In a recent analysis for the Capital Region of Denmark, we unpacked four key hotspots…
COVID green recovery: Which European nations are showing promise?
These European countries are promising to “build back better” with substantial investments in a green…
Living within planetary limits: impact assessment tools for cities and regions
Is your city or region doing enough to reduce carbon emissions and ecological impacts? The…
How cities can build healthier relationships with lifeline river basins
Some of the world’s most prolific cities rely on nearby rivers to sustain them, but…
What kind of growth? More countries are now measuring wellbeing indicators
Principles of a ‘wellbeing economy’ are being put into action, with new frameworks and indicators…
U.S. recycling system deep dive: High circular economy potential for aluminum cans
The average U.S. citizen consumes 800 beverages packaged in disposable containers each year. Despite current…
New tool helps guide sustainable packaging decisions in Asia Pacific
Making sustainable packaging choices can be a challenge. Is biodegradable better than recyclable? How was…
DLT4EU launches accelerator for circular economy and digital citizenship
“This is an opportunity to construct a really European stack of technology, which I think…
To truly ‘build back better,’ a systems approach is key
As nations juggle COVID peaks and troughs and attempt to reopen their economies, world leaders…
Save the date: Two urban farming hackathons with FoodE
In late October and early November, the Metabolic Institute will be hosting two online hackathons…
Can a circular economy bring the Baltic Sea back to health?
Today WWF launches the Baltic Stewardship Initiative, convening organizations in the agricultural sector to tackle…
Webinar: Circular economy opportunities for construction
A webinar that brings together a panel of experts to explore circular economy strategies in…
DLT4EU launch event: Exploring DLT for public good
Join us to explore how blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT) can contribute to…
Rethinking mobility systems with critical raw materials in mind
The global shift away from fossil fuels presents us with an opportunity. In redesigning systems…
Can Europe thrive within planetary boundaries?
Is Europe living within the limits of our planet? A recent report by the European…
Data-driven tools to accelerate and scaleup solutions for circular cities
For cities working on impactful sustainability strategies, the right data can assist in critical cost-benefit…
The Sustainability Agenda podcast: COVID-19, resilience, and systems thinking
Metabolic’s founder, Eva Gladek, was recently interviewed by Fergal Byrne. The podcast explores some of…
Impact Report 2019 – Letter from Eva Gladek, Metabolic Founder and CEO
As we approach the midpoint of 2020, we can see that our organizational mission –…
Synergies between industrial ecology and service design
Liveworks hosts a webinar to dive into circularity from a design, environmental, and organizational perspective,…
Peer-to-peer product sharing stimulates owning less, while connecting more
An interview with the founder of Peerby provides insight into how the organization became the…
Mapping ocean ecosystems to understand environmental impacts
Find out how different components of a system affect each other, and the knock-on effect…
Discussing zero emission cities of the future
Climate One facilitates a webinar on why every city will be carbon neutral by 2050.…
8 sustainability books that will challenge your thinking
Adapting to new routines and more time at home over the coming weeks, we've gathered…
Boulder circular economy report lays out opportunities for climate action
The City of Boulder has ambitious 2050 targets for both waste and greenhouse gas reduction.…
Rewarding sustainable actions at work with ECO coin
What holds value in our society? When a tree is cut down for wood, it’s…
Ready to stock up on food waste? Instock puts rescued produce back on the table
Instead of delicious food being thrown out, InStock redirects it onto a plate. In this…
Circular textiles are on the rise in the Amsterdam area
The textile industry is among the world’s most harmful. Textile production can pollute rivers, use…
Closing the loop with circular sweaters: an interview with Loop.a life
The world is producing more and more clothes, double what we produced 15 years ago…
Circular mattresses put the linear economy to rest, a Dutch initiative
Each year, consumers discard enough mattresses in the Netherlands to fill the entire Amsterdam Football…
Dutch upcycling hub creates value out of ‘waste’
This interview with Upcyclecenter explains how innovative startups are re-using, recycling and upcycling citizen waste.
Our oceans are changing: what does this mean for people and profit?
A new report commissioned by WWF explores the financial risks driven by changing ocean patterns…
Four pillars of a sustainable food system
The World Bank estimates that the global population is predicted to grow from 7.6 billion…
On the journey to a circular economy, don’t forget your materials passport
If the construction sector is to become sustainable, urban mining is key. But how do…
How Fairphone is reducing e-waste while improving working conditions
Over 1.5 billion mobile phones are sold every year, according to tech research company Gartner,…
Eight steps to set science-based targets for your organization
Organizations are trying to do better when it comes to the environment, but how can…
Metabolic Institute launches into an open-data approach to sustainability
This week marks the public launch of the Metabolic Institute, a non-profit think tank working…
Sustainable food and beverage trends: a world hungry for change in 2020
This World Food Day, our Agrifood and Biodiversity Team Lead Brian Shaw provides an overview…
Solutions for the nitrogen emissions crisis
Nitrogen emissions too often fly under the radar as an environmental problem, but a recent…
Circular economy solutions for e-waste: headphones as a service
The World Economic Forum estimates that the world generated 50 million tonnes of e-waste in…
Taking classes on circular cities: no room for climate anxiety
Grappling with ‘climate anxiety’, student Annebel Dommer sought out The Circular City Summer School, a…
How circular solutions can sustain Spaceship Earth
This year marks half a century since man landed on the moon. The Apollo program…
Video: Circular Cities in Practice: From the Netherlands to North Carolina
Metabolic founder and CEO Eva Gladek presented at Circularity 19 on how we developed our…
Constructing a circular built environment: new event on the block
A less wasteful, more resourceful construction sector is critical. We spoke with Frazer Stokes, founder of…
Turning over old ground: recycling the land beneath our feet
When most people think of recycling, they think of tossing glass bottles and plastic containers…
Devouring waste, nourishing the world: how insects can feed a circular economy
When it comes to the role of insect protein in the transition to a sustainable…
Largest wind farm battery in the Netherlands scales up the energy transition
In a country where windmill technologies were once pioneered to reclaim land from the sea,…
Floating communities rise to the challenge of climate change
It is one of the defining questions of our age: do we focus on reducing…
Are organic cotton totes really worse than plastic bags?
Which has a greater environmental impact: cotton bags or plastic? Our industries consultant Parkpoom Kometsopha…
China recycling import ban: two cities not letting crisis go to waste
China’s bid to end all waste imports by 2020 has plunged the global recycling network…
Why data visualization is critical to driving sustainable change
It is difficult to put into words just how wasteful our current economic system is.…
JTC, Witteveen+Bos and Metabolic explore industrial symbiosis on Jurong Island
The Jurong Island Symbiosis and Circularity Scan project has kicked off with a sharing session…
Podcast: Eva Gladek on Circular Cities
In a new episode of the Pakhuis de Zwijger podcast, Metabolic founder and CEO Eva…
Alpro and WWF pilot new science-based targets for sustainability
An innovative pilot project, commissioned by WWF and plant-based food and drink producer Alpro, gives…
How lost plastics could help us find a circular economy
With a new report finding plastic pollution on the planet is expected to double by 2030 if…
A neighborhood with brains: UN Studio’s Brainport smart district
Circular, safe, healthy, and featuring high-tech transport and energy innovations, a new district in the…
Measuring the circular economy: the Dutch pioneers leading the way
Three Dutch governing bodies are each working on their own approaches to measuring the transition…
Get to know the neighbors: local context the key to industrial symbiosis
By understanding the needs of those around them, businesses can harness the power of industrial…
New geo-design tool helps cities turn waste into value
A new geo-design spatial mapping tool connects waste streams to circular business opportunities, giving city…
COP24: circular economy the missing link in global climate plan
At the COP24 climate summit in Katowice on December 7, our founder Eva Gladek presented Metabolic…
‘Socio-Technical City’: a design vision for the city of the future
A concept for a new green district built above rail infrastructure in the city center…
Kick-start 2019 with a Circular Cities Masterclass
‘Designing the Circular Cities of the Future’ features case studies from Amsterdam, other cities and…
What cities can learn from human bodies
Our urban ecology consultant Nadina Galle recently spoke on the Oslo Urban Arena stage to…
Coding recipes and 3D printers: Aruba’s mobile makerspace hits the road
Was your primary school ever visited by a bookmobile? On the Caribbean island of Aruba,…
Raw Materials Week: 27 critical resources to safeguard
This week policymakers and industry stakeholders are gathering in the city of Brussels for the…
How a Circular Charlotte could end waste and poverty
The City of Charlotte has unveiled a strategy for a new, regenerative economic model designed…
Ecosystem services: is it wrong to put a price on nature?
Fresh from a six month placement with Metabolic, Nina de Haan explains why her study…
How a circular economy is key to averting catastrophic climate change
The IPCC report on the consequences of exceeding 1.5 degrees of warming has rippled out…
Report reveals how to integrate circular building into BREEAM sustainability certification
Metabolic has contributed to a new framework for circular building practices that could help inform…
Could a rare metals shortage disrupt the global renewable energy transition?
The world urgently needs to safeguard supply of the rare metals needed to build enough…
World Cleanup Day is every day for Aruba’s Plastic Beach Party
On September 15 millions of volunteers in 150 countries will join forces for World Cleanup…
How SIDE systems can unlock an energy revolution
Our energy systems engineer Florijn De Graaf has unveiled his report on Smart Integrated Decentralised…
Staging a revolution: Why DGTL continues to dominate festival sustainability
World-renowned electronic music festival DGTL welcomes some 40,000 visitors to the NDSM-Docklands in Amsterdam North…
Earth Overshoot Day: Forget carbon budgets, we need a planet Earth budget
Humans have felled rainforests, emitted carbon and depleted freshwater reserves at record speed in 2018…
Circular City Summer School Week Three: How to implement
The first year of the Circular City Summer School, jointly run by UvA and Metabolic,…
Circular City Summer School Week Two: Design and Planning
Week two of the Circular City Summer Programme at UvA saw students putting their design…
Pillars of the circular economy: seven cities showing the way
By 2050, the UN estimates that 70% of all people will live in cities –…
First week of Circular City Summer School a great success
Last week, we kicked off an exciting new addition to University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) annual…
Rotterdam: a circular economy powerhouse?
A report released as part of the City of Rotterdam’s ambitious bid to become a…
Why indirect impacts are indeed your business
Our biggest social and environmental impacts often lie beyond the company gates. Pieter van Exter…
Amsterdam’s circular living Lab: What organisations can learn from De Ceuvel
If you hop on the ferry from Amsterdam Central Station to the city’s northern suburb…
Housing corporations at the heart of a circular Amsterdam
Housing corporations own just under half of Amsterdam’s homes. Helping them achieve sustainability goals can…
Masterclass: Designing Circular Cities of the Future
What kind of city would you like to live in – five, ten, fifteen years…
Advancing aquaponics at the Metabolic greenhouse
Not many workspaces have a testing ground for urban farming techniques that could change the…
Why we should focus on circular areas, then circular buildings
Circular construction is often associated with how we design and develop individual structures, focusing largely on…
Using Systems Thinking to Transform Society: A Guidebook
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is known for its work with governments, the public and…
Urban Mining and Circular Construction – what, why and how it works
Construction is critical to the healthy functioning of our economy. However, it is also one…
Adapting to a changing planet: The next chapter in Dutch water history
The Netherlands has a long and fascinating history with water. With much of the country…
Metabolic Circular Cities Program Launches
By 2050, 70% of us will live in cities. To meet the challenges of today…
Rotterdam Targets Circular Future with Metabolic and Partners
The city of Rotterdam – the second largest in the Netherlands – has asked Metabolic…
Looping the thread: Highlighting circular innovation in textiles
The textiles sector is one of the least sustainable industries worldwide, producing huge amounts of…
Watch Metabolic at the Disruptive Innovation Festival
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is a 3-week online event that asks the question: what…
Metabolic Masterclasses For a Circular Economy: Expanded Program
Since launching last summer, Metabolic Masterclasses have been helping individuals and organizations to understand and…
Towards a Circular Vlieland: lessons in island sustainability
As closed ecosystems with exceptional challenges, islands are the perfect playground to test circular economics.…
Zero-Waste Festivals of the Future: A How-To Handbook
Festivals are the perfect playgrounds for testing circular design, responsible upcycling and waste-free strategies. Together…
Thinking Circular: a look back at our 2017
It’s been an eventful year for circular economy practitioners and we’re pleased to have played…
Nature-Based Solutions: The New (Green) Kid On The Block
As urban populations grow, and societal and environmental challenges facing cities become more apparent, nature-based…
Take Part in Metabolic Masterclasses in Circular Economy Week
The Dutch Week of the Circular Economy (15th to 19th January) is an annual celebration…
A walk through the Het Ware Noorden Light Festival
The annual Light Festival has become one of the most eye-catching events in Amsterdam. Come…
How alternative currencies can enable a circular economy
The way we engage with money is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of the…
Turning waste gas into chemicals to reduce emissions and help biomass challenges
Metabolic has completed a study that looks at the potential to turn waste gases from…
One Planet Approaches: new guidance to help organizations operate within planetary boundaries
We have begun to cross the safe boundaries within which the world operates. These boundaries…
Metabolic a finalist for DAM Prijs sustainability award
Metabolic has been nominated for the 2017 DAM Prijs sustainability award. This prize is awarded…
Designing out waste: five guidelines for a circular festival
Drawing on her work with DGTL and Welcome to the Village festivals, Nadina Galle shares…
The potential of nature-based solutions to help engineer resilience into Sint Maarten’s redevelopment
Metabolic has partnered with Utrecht University to explore the role nature-based solutions (NbS) can play…
‘Values’ drive business success – here’s how to bring them to life
On World Values Day, we are looking at how values drive our organizational success and…
Circular clothing: the next step in sustainable fashion
It is an unfortunate fact that clothes, even those made of organic, low impact or…
Metabolic and AMS Institute launch strategic Circular Cities partnership
Metabolic and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) are proud to announce…
Eva Gladek named as one of top ‘Sustainability Leaders’
Eva Gladek, the founder and CEO of Metabolic, has been named one of the leading…
Tackling Beijing’s Freight Challenges through Systems Thinking
Freight in Beijing is essential to provide goods to the city’s 20 million residents. Yet…
New tendering tools driving circularity in building construction
As organisations across the Netherlands embrace the transition to a circular built environment, Metabolic and…
Spectral and Alliander launch blockchain-based renewable energy sharing token
Spectral, a smart energy services company established by Metabolic, is on a mission to accelerate…
Empowerment: why inspiring, educating and resourcing a new generation of changemakers is essential for driving change
Our mission at Metabolic is to transition the global economy to a sustainable state. That…
Ending hunger: as the SDGs turn 2, how we can we realise one of its biggest challenges?
The second global goal for sustainable development (SDG) calls for us to not only end…
How to set up your own plastic recycling plant: lessons from Metabolic Foundation’s Plastic Beach Party in Aruba
The Caribbean island of Aruba imports more than 6,000 tons of plastic each year. With…
Metabolic and University of Amsterdam (UvA) launch ‘Circular Cities’ summer school
Applications are now open for an exciting new addition to UvA’s annual summer educational programming.…
Metabolic launches Masterclasses for a sustainable economy
From designing circular cities to shifting the global food system, and from understanding the new…
Metabolic software tool in running for €500.000 prize
Metabolic has developed a new software tool – ChemDSS – to help enable large-scale sustainable…
Islands as living labs for circular economics
Islands have fascinated scientists for centuries as key hotspots of change. Now, economists are taking…
Metabolic 2022: celebrating five years and sharing plans for the future
Metabolic was founded in 2012 to respond to the runaway exponential growth of our society…
Why Metabolic’s 150-strong alumni community is a powerful tool for change
For Metabolic’s recent five year celebrations, we hosted our first alumni reunion party to reconnect…
From Waste to Resources: How to Transition to Circular Festivals
Following our partnership with DGTL – an electronic music festival in Amsterdam – Metabolic consultant…
The Netherlands northern provinces taking the lead for a circular economy
The local governments and businesses of the north of the Netherlands have started taking steps…
Over the Years: Lessons from Metabolic’s R&D
Since its founding, Metabolic has experimented with a variety of product design trajectories that have…
Laying the foundation for circular buildings
Metabolic – together with our partners at SGS Search – has developed the world’s first…
Spectral – reimagining and rebuilding the energy system
Spectral is a company that is revolutionizing the way we produce, share and store energy…
Look Good, Do Good: accelerating sustainability in fashion
Metabolic has formed a partnership with Fashion for Good to help it reshape the fashion…
Why cities and regions hold the key to accelerating the circular economy
As Metabolic launches three services aimed at helping cities and regions to transition to the…
Metabolic’s top sustainability reads
Looking for a deeper understanding of sustainability and circular economics? Then we have the books you…
Improving the environmental performance of hotel linen
The textile sector contributes to 20% of the world’s industrial water pollution and, despite the…
Eva named in ABN AMRO ‘Sustainability 50’
Each year, the ABN AMRO Sustainable 50 (Duurzame 50 in Dutch) recognises people who have…
Changing the food system through impact ventures
The Global Food System is one of the most complex and impactful systems on the…
Applying Systems Innovations across Europe – SCREEN
SCREEN – short for Synergic Circular Economy across European Regions – is a project that brings together…
Metabolic supports ambition of ‘world’s first circular music festival’
The electronic music festival DGTL, which next takes place this Easter weekend in Amsterdam, has…
10 ways to shift consumers towards sustainable diets
Whether you’re launching a product or campaigning for change, here are ten ways to intervene…
InfraTech 2017: Eva’s keynote presentation
InfraTech is the biennial exhibition for the civil engineering industry in the Netherlands. Eva Gladek,…
How the Dutch Government can realise its circular ambitions
Ahead of the Dutch national election in March, the magazine De Ingenieur asked ten opinion formers what…
The Seven Pillars of the Circular Economy
We can only define a circular economy if we look to the end state that…
Roadmap for Circular Housing Development Tendering in Amsterdam
Metabolic is proud to announce a new project that will help strengthen Amsterdam’s position as…
Mining the mineral potential of Amsterdam
Metabolic has published a landmark report on urban mining for PUMA, outlining the potential mineral…
Metabolic supports Dutch Government’s circular economy ambitions
The Dutch Government wants to achieve a fully circular economy by 2050 – one of…
Metabolism study of Schiphol and its surrounding ecosystem takes off
Metabolic has been appointed to undertake a metabolism analysis of Schiphol Airport and its surrounding…
Is this the year the world wakes up to the Circular Economy?
The years ahead will be bumpy, but could 2017 be the year the world wakes…
De Ceuvel Finds the True North
Het Ware Noorden (True North) aims to help transform Amsterdam North into the the up-cycle…
Metabolic pioneers urban and regional approaches for Circular Economy
Metabolic has been pioneering an approach to urban and regional metabolism analysis that has resulted…
Accelerating a Circular Economy in Taiwan
Although they’re located on opposite sides of the planet and have very different cultures and…
Eva Gladek explores ‘systems thinking’ in new video shorts
Metabolic Founder and CEO Eva Gladek explores Metabolic’s approach to systems thinking in a new…
Collaboration key to transforming food system
Collaboration is key for our transition to a less impactful food system. Thomas Mason, who…
Metabolic contributes to WWF Living Planet Report
In WWF’s landmark new report on global biodiversity, Metabolic outlines how a systems approach is…
News round-up: highlights of our recent projects
A round-up of some of the projects that have been keeping us busy: from circular…
Metabolic Lab: Latest news from our showcase facility
It has been a busy time at Metabolic Lab, Metabolic’s experimental showcase facility of applied sustainability…
Lessons in systems thinking – exploring unintended consequences
Erin Kennedy outlines how a systems approach is the only responsible pathway to sustainability decision…
Eva Gladek named in ‘Sustainability Top 15’
Eva Gladek, the founder and CEO of Metabolic, has been recognised for her pioneering work…
Spring Update, 2016
It has been another exciting quarter at Metabolic. We are very pleased to announce the…
Metabolic features in film from The Economist
Metabolic plays a leading part in a new film from The Economist, the influential news outlet that…
BUILD in Bilbao
Gerard Roemers spent a week at the Bilbao Urban Innovation and Leadership Dialogues conference (BUILD). The organizer…
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