AI summarizes my circular economy work in 13 minutes

I’ve been at it a long time. Working on the circular economy. From advising the Swedish Circular Economy Delegation, to working on the circular region at the university in Gävle, Sweden, to creating an online education for county administrators. Thinking to put it all in a book, I started collecting fragments into Google’s experimental NotelbookLM. Of course, it offered to do a podcast summary of it all.

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The podcast is based on just under a dozen blog posts and papers on the subject of circular economy, especially seen from a real capital perspective. It covers

Supply chains. How to describe them in a way suitable for circular economy analysis.
Using the Swedish Standard Industrial Classification (SNI) to model supply chains, focusing on the flow of materials and energy.
Multi capital types (natural, built, human, social) to assess the environmental and economic impacts of industries.
Applying the Asset-Liability-Equity (ALE) framework, heretofore exclusive to economics, to policy analysis.
Evaluation of industry performance against circularity targets.
Creating more effective policy tools and strategies for transitioning to a sustainable circular economy.

The analysis leans on understanding the maturity of the technology embedded in the built infrastructure of a nation. The diagram below shows a way of measuring the capability of installed infrastructure against a normative, circular model. 100% represents full circular capability.