Duncan Baker-Brown is a practicing architect, academic and environmental activist. He has practiced, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development for more than 25 years and founded BBM Sustainable Design in 1994 with his partner Ian McKay. Since then he has worked on hundreds of projects considering many aspects of sustainable design and closed-loop systems.

Foreword Preface PART 1 Setting the Waste Scene Chapter 1 Resource matters Chapter 2 What a waste! Chapter 3 The political narrative PART 2 - Circular Inspirations Step 1 - Recycing Waste Case Study 1 - Gumtech Case Study 2 - ReWorked/SMILE Case Study 3 - Net-Works Case Study 4 - Overtreders-W Case Study 5 - Local Works Studio Case Study 6: a:gain Step 2: Reusing Waste Case Study 1 - Rural Studio Case Study 2 - SuperUse Studio Case Study 3 - Hub 67 by Lyn Atelier Case Study 4 - Rubber House & RecyclingHaus Case Study 5 - Super Local Case Study 6 - Entopia CISL HQ Case Study 7 - Cleveland Steel Case Study 8 - Cycle Station Case Study 9 - Cork House & Stone House Case Study 10 - Resource Rows Step 3: Reducing Case Study 1 - Rotor Case Study 2 - Lacaton & Vassal Case Study 3 - Rented House Life Case Study 4 - RAFT Case Study 5 - Samual Becket Theatre Case Study 6 - No.1 Triton Square Case Study 7 - Jo Tailieu Paddenbroek Education Centre Case Study 8 - de Ceuval Step 4: The Circular Economy Case Study 1 - Prof Dirk Hebel Case Study 2 - Francis Kere Case Study 3 - Enterprise Centre Case Study 4 - Orsman Road Case Study 5 - Cepezed Case Study 6 - Housing by BHCC Case Study 7 - Overtreders-W People's Pavilion Case Study 8 - GS8 Housing Orford Mews Case Study 9 - Biohm Case Study 10 - Work of Hans Hammink PART 4 Looking Forward Chapter 4 Product Moments, Material Eternities Chapter 5 The Wiki-Waste Workshop Chapter 6 It's all change now...isn't it?