Bamboo and The Circular Economy

06/26/23 • 58 min

The circular economy is a set of principles which serve as a guide in how we use our resources in an efficient and sustainable way. Felix Bock is the CEO and the Founder of ChopValue and we are honored to have him as a guest on today’s episode, to talk about turning waste into a resource and building a movement around the circular economy.
In This Episode We Discuss:

What is Chopvalue and Why Chopsticks?
The Scale Of Waste
Building A Movement Around The Circular Economy
Starting A Microfactory
The Connection Between Profit And Impact
Non-Toxic Resins
Creating Modular Components
Creating Cradle To Cradle Products
From Raw Material To High-Value End Product
Developing A Market
Creating Long Term Partnerships
No Bad Ideas
Employee Engagement
Growing Responsibly
Using Franchising As A Tool For Growth
Hungry For Change
Redefining Waste To Resource
Scaling and Doing Good

Learn more about ChopValue and Felix’ work: https://chopvalue.com/

Felix is also a resident speaker and facilitator of The Bamboo U Online Course: The Fundamentals Of Building With Bamboo: https://www.bamboou.com/courses

What is Chopvalue and Why Chopsticks?
The Scale Of Waste
Building A Movement Around The Circular Economy
Starting A Microfactory
The Connection Between Profit And Impact
Non-Toxic Resins
Creating Modular Components
Creating Cradle To Cradle Products
From Raw Material To High-Value End Product
Developing A Market
Creating Long Term Partnerships
No Bad Ideas
Employee Engagement
Growing Responsibly
Using Franchising As A Tool For Growth
Hungry For Change
Redefining Waste To Resource
Scaling and Doing Good

Learn more about ChopValue and Felix’ work: https://chopvalue.com/

Felix is also a resident speaker and facilitator of The Bamboo U Online Course: The Fundamentals Of Building With Bamboo: https://www.bamboou.com/courses

Previous Episode

Starting A Bamboo Industry From Scratch

Sanne is a Bamboo U Alumni and an architect from Amsterdam. Together with her team, she is working on building an entire bamboo industry in Uganda- from plantation and harvesting to government support and building structures.

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In This Episode We Discuss:

4:05 Sanne’s First Bamboo Building Project

6:16 Building With Sustainable Materials In Uganda

7:20 Establishing The Overall System For A Bamboo Project To Be Possible

8:06 The Clients And Organisations Wanting To Build With Bamboo In Uganda

10:47 Setting Up A Bamboo Supply Chain

12:32 INBAR And Bamboo Seedlings

13:37 Setting Up A Database For Bamboo Uganda

14:43 Bamboo Species Of Africa

16:00 How Does Growing Bamboo Influence Your Designs

18:31 Bamboo Species Influencing Design

20:55 Opening A Bamboo Factory

22:18 Bamboo At The Nyege Nyege Music Festival

22:45 Building a 9000 sqm Bamboo Structure Over The Old Taxi Park In Uganda

25:35 Training Local Carpenters

28:18 Designing Within Constraints

31:35 Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are

32:40 Bringing The Right People Together

Learn more about Sanne and her team’s work:

@bkvvarchitecten

@sanneeekel

Sanne is an alumni of both Bamboo U’s The Fundamentals Of Building Bamboo Online Course and our 11 Day Build and Design Course: https://www.bamboou.com/courses

Next Episode

Building Green School Tulum

An exciting episode and topic for the future of bamboo architecture in the Americas. Jules De Laage is an architect, former Program Manager at Bamboo U and currently leading the team building Green School Tulum in Mexico. In this episode, we talk about what it’s like to bring bamboo designs into a new context that faces environmental challenges like hurricanes, which requires an entirely new design vocabulary to emerge as a response.

In This Episode We Discuss: