By Rohit Lahia The average person produces about 4.4 pounds of trash each day. The United States alone produced 268 million tons of trash in 2021....
Archive for category: Circular Economy
Can Dutch Circularity Lessons Be Applied to Northern Virginia?
By Brandon Licata In June 2022, Leaders in Energy (LE), the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, and Circular Friesland co-hosted a webinar on “The Place-Based Circular...
Building Back Greener: Annual Clean Energy Extravaganza Recap
By Eghe Herrmann Clean Energy in Our Future: Panel 1 Recap Article The first panel focused on Sustainability and Clean Energy and was...
Working Circular: Incorporating Circular Economy Principles at Work
By Jess Parker On June 24th, 68 guests attended a virtual discussion hosted by Leaders in Energy Circular Economy Working Group, DC EcoWomen, and...
Circular Economy: Fashion Edition
By Beth Offenbacker I’m in Germany visiting friends in Kisslegg (near Munich) this week – watch for my posts from the road about trends and...
Technology: A Key Driver to a Sustainable Future
By MIRIAM ACZEL Environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly mainstream in business operations and in investing. ‘Impact investing’ and other forms of environmentally and socially conscious...
‘Zero is the Hero’: International Symposium Educates Students on the Concept of Zero in Math and Minimizes Environmental Impact
By DEBRA ACZEL and MIRIAM ACZEL Convened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Amir D. Aczel Foundation, in collaboration with the math department of the Royal University...
Sustainable Fashion: Closing the Clothing Loop
By MIRIAM ACZEL Our consumption and use of resources arguably need a rethink: Earth Overshoot Day, the date when our resource consumption for the year surpasses the...
From Plastic to Fantastic: Promoting the Circular Economy in Cambodia
By DEBRA ACZEL and MIRIAM ACZEL Our plastics problem is BIG and growing A landmark study that measured global production, use and ultimate disposition of plastics found that we’ve...
Transforming Waste into Energy to Advance the Circular Economy: Canada – USA Event Recap
By DINA MANSOUR On October 25th, 2018, Leaders in Energy (LE), in partnership with the Quebec Government office in Washington and the Embassy of Canada, held...