Further Resources
Further Resources
Further Resources
- Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. (n.d.). Cradle to Cradle Certified®. https://c2ccertified.org/the-standard
- Explains the standard’s five categories: material health, product circularity, clean air and climate protection, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.
- Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. (n.d.). Product circularity, verified. https://c2ccertified.org/
- Useful for framing Cradle to Cradle as a product-level certification system supporting safe material cycles and circular-economy principles.
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (2021). The butterfly diagram: Visualising the circular economy. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy-diagram
- A clear visual resource for explaining biological and technical material cycles.
- Biomimicry Institute. (n.d.). Biomimicry design toolbox. https://toolbox.biomimicry.org/
- An introductory resource for understanding biomimicry as a design approach inspired by nature.
- Biomimicry Institute. (n.d.). Nature’s unifying patterns. https://toolbox.biomimicry.org/core-concepts/natures-unifying-patterns/
- Connects biomimicry with cycles, adaptation, resilience, resource efficiency and working within ecological limits.
- Textile Exchange. (2022). Regenerative agriculture landscape analysis. https://textileexchange.org/knowledge-center/reports/regenerative-agriculture-landscape-analysis/
- Applies regenerative thinking to the textile sector, particularly fibre sourcing, soil health, biodiversity, farming communities and livelihoods.
RESOURCE INSIGHT: Circular Design Toolbox — Global Fashion Agenda, 2020. When 94 companies representing 12% of the global fashion market signed the 2020 Circular Fashion System Commitment, its first action point was implementing design strategies for cyclability — confirming design as the entry point for circularity. The toolbox guides brands through five phases (Getting Informed, Strategy, Implementation, Communication, Evaluation) and stresses that training designers is the first step, offering practical steps, best practices and cases on designing clothing that lasts longer and can easily be repaired and reused. Source: https://globalfashionagenda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GFA_2020_Circular-Design-toolbox-1.pdf.
- RESOURCE INSIGHT: The Circular Design Guide — Ellen MacArthur Foundation & IDEO, 2016. A free practical resource for innovators: 24 methods and mindsets that take designers from circular-economy theory to daily practice, covering user research, materials selection and circular business models. It reframes design ambition from products to companies to whole economic systems, drawing on tools such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things and biomimicry. Source: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-design-guide/overview.
- RESOURCE INSIGHT: Schools of Thought That Inspired the Circular Economy — Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2023. The circular economy synthesises ideas from Cradle to Cradle (McDonough & Braungart'stechnical and biological 'nutrients'), biomimicry, industrial ecology, the performance economy and the blue economy. Understanding these roots helps designers see why materials must either safely return to nature or circulate at high value in closed technical loops - the logic behind the butterfly diagram. Source: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/schools-of-thought-that-inspired-the-circular-economy.
- PARTNER CASE STUDY: IRCEM - Institute for Research in Circular Economy and Environment — Romania. Topic: Circular Design & Ecodesign. IRCEM is a Romanian research institute dedicated to circular economy and ecodesign, developing methodologies, training and pilot projects that help companies put circularity into product development. It shows how research organisations support SMEs in choosing and applying circular design approaches.
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