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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.
- Biodiversity ·
Climate finance after COP29: challenges and opportunities
Explore reflections from Metabolic’s Finance Team on COP29’s outcomes and opportunities for systemic change.
- Finance ·
Principles of a New Economy
Discover how purpose-driven economic models promote sustainability and equity, guided by the principles of Metabolic…
- Ventures ·
We depend on nature
Explore the critical relationship between nature and the economy. This article delves into how understanding…
- Economics ·
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.
- Ventures ·
Applying Material Flow Analysis to develop Circular Cities
Ever since Metabolic was founded in 2012, we have looked at how we can achieve…
- Cities and Regions ·
Your journey to a sustainable value chain starts here
Getting organizations ready for compliance with sustainability regulations is not simple. This page explains the…
- Industries ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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.
- Institute ·
Unlocking the potential of circular makers in urban development
The EU CENTRINNO project highlighted the need for comprehensive policy for sustainable urban development that…
- Institute ·
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…
- Built environment ·
Our hopes for COP28
Despite the criticisms surrounding COP28, we cannot afford to skip this important moment of dialogue…
- Circular Economy ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
Spectral to scale its operations with significant new investment
With its holistic approach, Spectral will use new funding to further its mission on the…
- Ventures ·
Unlocking the circular economy with data
Digital Product Passports have the potential to solve some of the biggest challenges in transitioning…
- Circular Economy ·
Tailored mapping tools for circular regeneration
How can (Fab) cities use the CENTRINNO Cartography to transform into circular urban ecosystems?
- Institute ·
Introducing the Artichoke Theory of Risk
How can layered vegetables help us understand the risks of transformative ventures? A Silicon Valley…
- Ventures ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Biodiversity ·
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.
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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.
- Finance ·
Tools for Systemic Venture Building
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary…
- Ventures ·
Celebrating a decade of positive change
As Metabolic turns 10 this year, we marvel at how our team and our impact…
- Media ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Metabolic and PwC join forces in ESG collaboration
Helping organizations accelerate their ESG strategies for sustainability Metabolic and PwC have embarked on a…
- Finance ·
Staff picks: Seven thought-provoking sustainability books
Our team shares their favorite thought-provoking sustainability reads.
- Climate change ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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 —…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Industries ·
Our systems approach, the power behind our sustainable solutions
From Thailand to Burkina Faso, here are two examples of how we use systems thinking…
- Circular Economy ·
The interconnected city:
Imagining our urban lives in 2050
By the year 2050, we will be interconnected with our planet, our communities, and our…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
The interconnected city: Interconnected communities vital to healthy cities
Strengthening the connections in our communities turned cities into affordable, communal places for everyone.
- Cities and Regions ·
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.
- Cities and Regions ·
Systemic Venture Framework
At Metabolic Ventures, we believe that addressing our shared societal challenges will require evolving our…
- Ventures ·
Rethinking concrete to build more sustainable cities
Concrete has transformed the world as a durable and affordable construction material. To create a…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Climate change ·
Stubborn optimism at COP26
As our team joins some of the dialogues and events surrounding the UN Climate Change…
- 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…
- Metrics & Tools ·
Insights from spatial data
As society’s reliance on a healthy natural system becomes increasingly clear, more and more companies…
- Agrifood ·
How the public sector can use DLTs for good
Distributed Ledger Technology, the parent technology to blockchains and cryptocurrency, can play an important role…
- Technologies ·
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…
- Ventures ·
How to put regenerative agriculture into practice
Regenerative agriculture is about farming in nature’s form, and nature is complex. Here's how companies…
- Agrifood ·
Bringing consumption within planetary boundaries
Metabolic has collaborated with Dayrize.com, a new e-commerce platform in the UK, to develop a…
- Circular Economy ·
Organic vs regenerative farming: What’s the difference?
When it comes to the question of making our food systems more sustainable, organic farming…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Ventures ·
How to create a sustainable bioeconomy
The bioeconomy is an increasingly important part of our world today, touching everything from food…
- Institute ·
Regenerative agriculture: Farming in nature’s form
Regenerative agriculture is about reimagining our relationship with land. Let’s start at the bottom: with…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
14 questions to guide entrepreneurs towards deep and lasting impact
Designing solutions and organizations that provide the best chances for success.
- Ventures ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
How the right data supports a circular built environment
With data on the availability of reusable or recycled materials, architects and the construction industry…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Circular Economy ·
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…
- Finance ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Recycling, downcycling and the need for a circular economy
Not all recycling is created equal. We explore the differences between recycling, upcycling, and downcycling…
- Circular Economy ·
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,…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Circular Cities Webinar: Denver, Boulder and Beyond
‘Denver, Boulder and Beyond’ during Circular Cities Week, a webinar designed to explore circular cities…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Circular Economy ·
Cities should track emissions from the goods they import
First published on Greenbiz By only measuring and reducing emissions within their borders, cities are…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
COVID green recovery: Which European nations are showing promise?
These European countries are promising to “build back better” with substantial investments in a green…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Economics ·
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…
- Products and Services ·
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…
- Metrics & Tools ·
DLT4EU launches accelerator for circular economy and digital citizenship
“This is an opportunity to construct a really European stack of technology, which I think…
- Technologies ·
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…
- Economics ·
Save the date: Two urban farming hackathons with FoodE
In late October and early November, the Metabolic Institute will be hosting two online hackathons…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Metrics & Tools ·
Webinar: Circular economy opportunities for construction
A webinar that brings together a panel of experts to explore circular economy strategies in…
- Media ·
DLT4EU launch event: Exploring DLT for public good
Join us to explore how blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT) can contribute to…
- Institute ·
Rethinking mobility systems with critical raw materials in mind
The global shift away from fossil fuels presents us with an opportunity. In redesigning systems…
- Industries ·
Can Europe thrive within planetary boundaries?
Is Europe living within the limits of our planet? A recent report by the European…
- Industries ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Media ·
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 –…
- Media ·
Synergies between industrial ecology and service design
Liveworks hosts a webinar to dive into circularity from a design, environmental, and organizational perspective,…
- Industries ·
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…
- Economics ·
Mapping ocean ecosystems to understand environmental impacts
Find out how different components of a system affect each other, and the knock-on effect…
- Climate change ·
Discussing zero emission cities of the future
Climate One facilitates a webinar on why every city will be carbon neutral by 2050.…
- Cities and Regions ·
8 sustainability books that will challenge your thinking
Adapting to new routines and more time at home over the coming weeks, we've gathered…
- Education ·
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.…
- Cities and Regions ·
Rewarding sustainable actions at work with ECO coin
What holds value in our society? When a tree is cut down for wood, it’s…
- Economics ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Textiles ·
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…
- Textiles ·
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…
- Textiles ·
Dutch upcycling hub creates value out of ‘waste’
This interview with Upcyclecenter explains how innovative startups are re-using, recycling and upcycling citizen waste.
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Finance ·
Four pillars of a sustainable food system
The World Bank estimates that the global population is predicted to grow from 7.6 billion…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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,…
- Industries ·
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…
- Metrics & Tools ·
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…
- Institute ·
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…
- Agrifood ·
Solutions for the nitrogen emissions crisis
Nitrogen emissions too often fly under the radar as an environmental problem, but a recent…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Economics ·
How circular solutions can sustain Spaceship Earth
This year marks half a century since man landed on the moon. The Apollo program…
- Technologies ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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,…
- Energy ·
Floating communities rise to the challenge of climate change
It is one of the defining questions of our age: do we focus on reducing…
- Built environment ·
Are organic cotton totes really worse than plastic bags?
Which has a greater environmental impact: cotton bags or plastic? Our industries consultant Parkpoom Kometsopha…
- Textiles ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Why data visualization is critical to driving sustainable change
It is difficult to put into words just how wasteful our current economic system is.…
- Metrics & Tools ·
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…
- Industries ·
Podcast: Eva Gladek on Circular Cities
In a new episode of the Pakhuis de Zwijger podcast, Metabolic founder and CEO Eva…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Metrics & Tools ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Climate change ·
‘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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Kick-start 2019 with a Circular Cities Masterclass
‘Designing the Circular Cities of the Future’ features case studies from Amsterdam, other cities and…
- Education ·
What cities can learn from human bodies
Our urban ecology consultant Nadina Galle recently spoke on the Oslo Urban Arena stage to…
- Cities and Regions ·
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,…
- Education ·
Raw Materials Week: 27 critical resources to safeguard
This week policymakers and industry stakeholders are gathering in the city of Brussels for the…
- Economics ·
How a Circular Charlotte could end waste and poverty
The City of Charlotte has unveiled a strategy for a new, regenerative economic model designed…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Economics ·
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…
- Climate change ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Technologies ·
How SIDE systems can unlock an energy revolution
Our energy systems engineer Florijn De Graaf has unveiled his report on Smart Integrated Decentralised…
- Technologies ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Economics ·
Circular City Summer School Week Three: How to implement
The first year of the Circular City Summer School, jointly run by UvA and Metabolic,…
- Education ·
Circular City Summer School Week Two: Design and Planning
Week two of the Circular City Summer Programme at UvA saw students putting their design…
- Education ·
Pillars of the circular economy: seven cities showing the way
By 2050, the UN estimates that 70% of all people will live in cities –…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Education ·
Rotterdam: a circular economy powerhouse?
A report released as part of the City of Rotterdam’s ambitious bid to become a…
- Cities and Regions ·
Why indirect impacts are indeed your business
Our biggest social and environmental impacts often lie beyond the company gates. Pieter van Exter…
- Economics ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Masterclass: Designing Circular Cities of the Future
What kind of city would you like to live in – five, ten, fifteen years…
- Cities and Regions ·
Advancing aquaponics at the Metabolic greenhouse
Not many workspaces have a testing ground for urban farming techniques that could change the…
- Technologies ·
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…
- Built environment ·
Using Systems Thinking to Transform Society: A Guidebook
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is known for its work with governments, the public and…
- Agrifood ·
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…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Metabolic Circular Cities Program Launches
By 2050, 70% of us will live in cities. To meet the challenges of today…
- Cities and Regions ·
Rotterdam Targets Circular Future with Metabolic and Partners
The city of Rotterdam – the second largest in the Netherlands – has asked Metabolic…
- Cities and Regions ·
Looping the thread: Highlighting circular innovation in textiles
The textiles sector is one of the least sustainable industries worldwide, producing huge amounts of…
- Textiles ·
Watch Metabolic at the Disruptive Innovation Festival
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is a 3-week online event that asks the question: what…
- Media ·
Metabolic Masterclasses For a Circular Economy: Expanded Program
Since launching last summer, Metabolic Masterclasses have been helping individuals and organizations to understand and…
- Education ·
Towards a Circular Vlieland: lessons in island sustainability
As closed ecosystems with exceptional challenges, islands are the perfect playground to test circular economics.…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Media ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Take Part in Metabolic Masterclasses in Circular Economy Week
The Dutch Week of the Circular Economy (15th to 19th January) is an annual celebration…
- Education ·
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…
- Built environment ·
How alternative currencies can enable a circular economy
The way we engage with money is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of the…
- Economics ·
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…
- Industries ·
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…
- Climate change ·
Metabolic a finalist for DAM Prijs sustainability award
Metabolic has been nominated for the 2017 DAM Prijs sustainability award. This prize is awarded…
- Media ·
Designing out waste: five guidelines for a circular festival
Drawing on her work with DGTL and Welcome to the Village festivals, Nadina Galle shares…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
‘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…
- Education ·
Circular clothing: the next step in sustainable fashion
It is an unfortunate fact that clothes, even those made of organic, low impact or…
- Textiles ·
Metabolic and AMS Institute launch strategic Circular Cities partnership
Metabolic and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) are proud to announce…
- Cities and Regions ·
Eva Gladek named as one of top ‘Sustainability Leaders’
Eva Gladek, the founder and CEO of Metabolic, has been named one of the leading…
- Media ·
Tackling Beijing’s Freight Challenges through Systems Thinking
Freight in Beijing is essential to provide goods to the city’s 20 million residents. Yet…
- Cities and Regions ·
New tendering tools driving circularity in building construction
As organisations across the Netherlands embrace the transition to a circular built environment, Metabolic and…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Ventures ·
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…
- Education ·
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…
- Politics ·
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…
- Ventures ·
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.…
- Education ·
Metabolic launches Masterclasses for a sustainable economy
From designing circular cities to shifting the global food system, and from understanding the new…
- Education ·
Metabolic software tool in running for €500.000 prize
Metabolic has developed a new software tool – ChemDSS – to help enable large-scale sustainable…
- Metrics & Tools ·
Islands as living labs for circular economics
Islands have fascinated scientists for centuries as key hotspots of change. Now, economists are taking…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Media ·
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…
- Media ·
From Waste to Resources: How to Transition to Circular Festivals
Following our partnership with DGTL – an electronic music festival in Amsterdam – Metabolic consultant…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Over the Years: Lessons from Metabolic’s R&D
Since its founding, Metabolic has experimented with a variety of product design trajectories that have…
- Technologies ·
Laying the foundation for circular buildings
Metabolic – together with our partners at SGS Search – has developed the world’s first…
- Cities and Regions ·
Spectral – reimagining and rebuilding the energy system
Spectral is a company that is revolutionizing the way we produce, share and store energy…
- Energy ·
Look Good, Do Good: accelerating sustainability in fashion
Metabolic has formed a partnership with Fashion for Good to help it reshape the fashion…
- Textiles ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
Metabolic’s top sustainability reads
Looking for a deeper understanding of sustainability and circular economics? Then we have the books you…
- Education ·
Improving the environmental performance of hotel linen
The textile sector contributes to 20% of the world’s industrial water pollution and, despite the…
- Textiles ·
Eva named in ABN AMRO ‘Sustainability 50’
Each year, the ABN AMRO Sustainable 50 (Duurzame 50 in Dutch) recognises people who have…
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Changing the food system through impact ventures
The Global Food System is one of the most complex and impactful systems on the…
- Agrifood ·
Applying Systems Innovations across Europe – SCREEN
SCREEN – short for Synergic Circular Economy across European Regions – is a project that brings together…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
10 ways to shift consumers towards sustainable diets
Whether you’re launching a product or campaigning for change, here are ten ways to intervene…
- Agrifood ·
InfraTech 2017: Eva’s keynote presentation
InfraTech is the biennial exhibition for the civil engineering industry in the Netherlands. Eva Gladek,…
- Built environment ·
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…
- Politics ·
The Seven Pillars of the Circular Economy
We can only define a circular economy if we look to the end state that…
- Media ·
Roadmap for Circular Housing Development Tendering in Amsterdam
Metabolic is proud to announce a new project that will help strengthen Amsterdam’s position as…
- Cities and Regions ·
Mining the mineral potential of Amsterdam
Metabolic has published a landmark report on urban mining for PUMA, outlining the potential mineral…
- Cities and Regions ·
Metabolic supports Dutch Government’s circular economy ambitions
The Dutch Government wants to achieve a fully circular economy by 2050 – one of…
- Politics ·
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…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Economics ·
De Ceuvel Finds the True North
Het Ware Noorden (True North) aims to help transform Amsterdam North into the the up-cycle…
- Technologies ·
Metabolic pioneers urban and regional approaches for Circular Economy
Metabolic has been pioneering an approach to urban and regional metabolism analysis that has resulted…
- Cities and Regions ·
Accelerating a Circular Economy in Taiwan
Although they’re located on opposite sides of the planet and have very different cultures and…
- Cities and Regions ·
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…
- Media ·
Collaboration key to transforming food system
Collaboration is key for our transition to a less impactful food system. Thomas Mason, who…
- Agrifood ·
Metabolic contributes to WWF Living Planet Report
In WWF’s landmark new report on global biodiversity, Metabolic outlines how a systems approach is…
- Media ·
News round-up: highlights of our recent projects
A round-up of some of the projects that have been keeping us busy: from circular…
- Media ·
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…
- Politics ·
Eva Gladek named in ‘Sustainability Top 15’
Eva Gladek, the founder and CEO of Metabolic, has been recognised for her pioneering work…
- Media ·
Spring Update, 2016
It has been another exciting quarter at Metabolic. We are very pleased to announce the…
- Cities and Regions ·
Metabolic features in film from The Economist
Metabolic plays a leading part in a new film from The Economist, the influential news outlet that…
- Media ·
BUILD in Bilbao
Gerard Roemers spent a week at the Bilbao Urban Innovation and Leadership Dialogues conference (BUILD). The organizer…
- Built environment ·
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