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b"Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross recap major themes from the futurethink podcast miniseries on the circular economy, part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.\\n\\n\\u2022Overarching Themes\\n\\n\\u2022Circularity\\n\\u2022The biological system is circular (though you always have sun inputting energy from outside the circle).\\n\\u2022\\tThe circular economy model is gaining traction and we discussed its role in cities in an earlier episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-723097380/the-future-of-cities-and-the-circular-economy\\n\\n\\u2022People\\n\\u2022You can\\u2019t discount the role that people play in innovation. People are a significant factor in determining if a new technology will work and how it will be implemented. \\n\\u2022We can look at people on two scales: the broader social scale and also on an individual level. \\n\\n\\u2022Inclusion: We need to think about all communities' role in technological transition and how we can engage these communities.\\n o Heather mentions Martin Buber\\u2019s notion of \\u201cI and Thou\\u201d in the discussion of how we relate and understand to other people. Read more about Buber\\u2019s ideas here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/buber/#SH2b\\n\\n\\u2022There is a problem of capital in the energy transition. How do we ease the transition? \\no\\tGovernment incentives\\no\\tSocial acceptability of technological change\\no\\tCreating habits surrounding change"