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Building regenerative
circular cities
It is time to build local resilience, take control of our resources, and develop a human and sustainable driven society built from within our communities.
Within our cities.
We are a community interest company providing science based, ground up solutions to develop regenerative local entrepreneurial communities and guide businesses towards circular revenue models, to create more resilient circular cities.
Circular Sheffield
Mottainai Institute is based in Sheffield, UK and focuses on fostering a regenerative, thriving, resource efficient city, through liberating solutions for local development projects, research, and business and community growth.
We guide local businesses towards regenerative design, and circular revenue models, we foster partnerships through industrial symbiosis to increase resource efficiency, and we drive entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment opportunities as a local business hub
The institute provides actionable, expert-led education programs that equip you to design and implement circular economy solutions. We further drive demonstrator projects, and public forums to expand communication to foster a thriving people centred community
The Circular City Framework
With raw material inputs coming into – and being created in - a city, the framework captures opportunities to draw more value from them. We focus on 5 keys Focus Areas:
1. Food systems
2. Circular revenue models
3. Ecological regeneration
4. Built environment
5. Consumer goods
The Circular City Hub
A collective knowledge bank created through partnerships across the city network to come together in building a circular city.
The institute focuses on community development by engaging in local data driven research, demonstrator projects, and public forums to expand communication and provide tools and education programs to foster a thriving people centred community
717 Ecclesall Road
Sheffield
S11 8TG
+447745920694
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