Circular Economy

Moving beyond technical fixes to imagine regenerative futures grounded in degrowth, slow science, and resistance to systemic inertia.

Examining the spatial inequalities of the green transition and how the Global North's 'sustainability' depends on the Global South's vulnerability.

Examining how the promise of closed-loop recycling masks the reality of entropic loss and the rebound effect in battery production.

A critical exploration of the green energy transition's hidden costs, examining how lithium mining perpetuates colonial extraction while claiming sustainability.

Exploring how the promise of sustainable mining depends on rendering ecological and social costs invisible through 'entropic omissions.'

Exploring how the milkman model of reusable bottles compares environmentally to modern packaging, revealing the complexities of true circular systems.

Exploring the inconvenient truths of the circular economy, from thermodynamic limits to systemic barriers, and how to build a more realistic and just system.

A three-part series examining civilization through the lens of physics, tracing how energy transitions power societal leaps and how accumulated waste precipitates systemic collapse.

Investigates the principles for a next-stage civilization capable of maintaining complexity through renewable gradients and closed-loop materials management.

Analyzes the Industrial Revolution as a thermodynamic discontinuity, examining the unprecedented energy flux it unleashed and the corresponding waste crisis it generated.