Speaker: Audrey Bayens
Topic: Thinking for a Healthy Planet
Learn how the circular economy is gaining traction around the world, with new businesses popping up everywhere to make the planet healthier. We need to get on board! Based on three principles: Design out waste and pollution Keep products and materials in use Regenerate natural systems Looking beyond the current take-make-waste extractive industrial model, a circular economy aims to redefine growth, focusing on positive society-wide benefits.
It entails gradually decoupling economic activity from the consumption of finite resources, and designing waste out of the system. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how we can re-design the way our economy works -designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.
Our presenter :
Audrey Bayens, is a purpose-driven professional connecting community with GHG reduction and circular economy principles. As the leader for Circular Economy Clubs of Canada she inspires projects that strengthen relationships between citizens, municipalities and circular business. The purpose of weRcircular is to collectively shape circular economy community awareness nationally. Additionally, she works part-time for Windfall Ecology Centre as the ClimateWise Building Challenge Program Manager. This position utilizes her Greenhouse Gas Inventory Accounting Certification and and NRCan Registered Energy Advisor certification.
