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Circularity Infrastructure and Procurement: Tools for a Just Transition
Sustain Our Future Foundation's community benefits agreement model aligns circular procurement with mechanisms that improve material conditions for communities, not just materials flows within supply chains.
Weaving the Threads of the Reuse Economy Tapestry
Coalfield Development’s work on a just transition to a viable, sustainable economy in Appalachia. Part of Upstream’ s series on Reuse and a Just Transition.
image: Coalfield Development
The Role of Reuse in a Just Transition: Crafting Just Reuse Policy
Exploring the role of policymaking as it relates to a just transition to a reuse economy.
Building the New Within the Old: Indigenous Voices and Corporate Sustainability at the Grand Canyon
Lessons in applying Just Transition principles to Upstream’s reuse project at Grand Canyon National Park.
image: National Park Service
De-Colonizing Branding & Marketing
Part III of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.
Joy & Connection in the Past, Present, and Future of Reuse
Part II of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.
image credit: Society of Native Nations
Centering Community Expertise to Build a Just Reuse Economy
Part I of a conversation with Jo Banner and Frankie Orona, an installation of Upstream’s project exploring the role of reuse in a Just Transition.
The Role Of Reuse In A Just Transition: Workforce & Economic Development
How reuse can meet the objectives of a just economy as well as provide safe, healthy, dignified jobs.
The role of reuse in a Just Transition
We know reuse plays a crucial role in a just transition to a more sustainable economy—but we’ve not yet explicitly stated how and why this is so.