The TUM Senior Excellence Faculty's book on the circular economy is intended as a stimulus and source of ideas for greater sustainability. Image: KW NEUN Grafikagentur
The TUM Senior Excellence Faculty's book on the circular economy is intended as a stimulus and source of ideas for greater sustainability. Image: KW NEUN Grafikagentur - The sustainable circulation of materials and products, powered by regenerative energy sources, in order to bring about a healthy future: that is the underlying vision of the circular economy. Universities have a key role to play in making it a reality. A new book on the circular economy compiled by the TUM Senior Excellence Faculty highlights suggestions and potential sources of inspiration for a sustainable and rationally managed economy. "We are paying for today's economic structures and consumption habits with the destruction of nature and the loss of biodiversity in the air, on the ground and below the water surface, and are thus undermining the very foundations of our existence," says TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann. "Those with the least access to the benefits of human development are suffering the most from the negative side effects of our actions. We are jeopardizing our own future.
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