We believe that circular economy can help build local resilience in cities for future crises, and that circular economy has a role to play in recovery from the current pandemic. But don’t just take our word for it. Today’s post is a podcast from one of our friends and partners in this work, Amsterdam-based Metabolic.

One of the critical necessities that has come to light with COVID-19 is the need for dynamic structures, changing with the uncertainty of this virus and how we usebuildings. Globally, architects and planners are figuring out ways to take this into account in construction and building (especially as the fight against coronavirus is expected to continue for the foreseeable future) coming up with flexible, quickly assembled, mobile, and simple structures.

A circular economy is underpinned by renewable energy. Solar energy is one renewable, clean energy source but suffers from some ethical and supply chain issues. Nuclear fusion still has a long way to go but it could be another renewable solution.

The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area has considerable issues when it comes to air pollution and that affects our resilience to pandemics like coronavirus.

Circular Triangle, along with partners Don’t Waste Durham and Sustainable Duke, published an advocacy brief summarizing research on sterilizing personal protective equipment (PPE) and localizing supply chains as a solution to the critical shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 crisis.