Tag: Bernadette Janssen
Club Circulair 2019
On the 10th of January 2019 I visited Club Circulair at Blue City Rotterdam. Blue City is a former tropical swimming pool. It closed over 10 years ago, because it didn’t make enough money to keep it running or guarantee the safety of its visitors. Now it facilitates research centers for making food out of waste, a circular restaurant and several spaces to organize conferences (mostly on topics about circular economy). I came here to build a network: to meet like-minded people and bundle our ideas, talents and efforts and share our knowledge. Circularity has nothing to do with keeping ones knowledge to oneself, but being open-source, sharing research and places where to find materials for our small businesses. When I arrived I soon found our that the majority of the people present worked for the Department Sustainability of the city Rotterdam. This was a public event, but also the…