Circularity – Ken Pucker http://kpp.active-interactive.com Writer, Investor, Advisory Director, Berkshire Partners - Professor of Practice, Fletcher School Tufts University Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:48:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 http://kpp.active-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-PhotoKP-32x32.jpeg Circularity – Ken Pucker http://kpp.active-interactive.com 32 32 Planning Your Holiday Wardrobe? Ask Yourself If You Really Need Another Fast-Fashion Polyester Dress http://kpp.active-interactive.com/media/planning-your-holiday-wardrobe-ask-yourself-if-you-really-need-another-fast-fashion-polyester-dress/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:21:42 +0000 http://kpp.active-interactive.com/?p=481 With summer comes plastic–polyester dresses, synthetic bikinis, water bottles, and so on. I wonder how many of you are thinking about the repercussions of all of that. I know that today’s fashion motto is “circularity will save us all.” I embarked on a quest a couple of years ago in the form of a short documentary Fashionscapes: A Circular Economy, but I am sorry to break it to you: a recent conversation with former Timberland COO Ken Pucker (and his brilliant analysis in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared) posited fashion and circularity as an oxymoron.

https://en-vogue-me.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/en.vogue.me/fashion/holiday-wardrobe-fast-fashion-polyester-dress-livia-firth/amp/

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For Ken Pucker, circularity is just another win-win fantasy & distraction for the fashion industry.

]]> 454 Further Reflections on Fashion’s Circularity Reckoning http://kpp.active-interactive.com/articles/further-reflections-on-fashions-circularity-reckoning/ Sun, 28 May 2023 17:54:32 +0000 http://kpp.active-interactive.com/?p=435 Further Reflections on Fashion’s Circularity ReckoningKen Pucker responds to his readers’ critiques of his Up for Debate article “A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared” and reiterates his call for a systemic shift in how the fashion industry does business.

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/further_reflections_on_fashions_circularity_reckoning

]]> 435 Circularity Is a Fashionable Fantasy http://kpp.active-interactive.com/articles/circularity-is-a-fashionable-fantasy/ Fri, 26 May 2023 17:16:23 +0000 http://kpp.active-interactive.com/?p=429 The buzzy concept is a chimaera that distracts from the root cause of fashion’s worsening environmental impact: overconsumption, argues Kenneth Pucker

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/op-ed-circularity-is-a-fashionable-fantasy/?utm_source=newsletter_dailydigest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Digest_260523&utm_term=3PNLIJGNHNEHBCFER4M45JG3V4&utm_content=top_story_3_title

 

]]> 429 A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared http://kpp.active-interactive.com/articles/a-circle-that-isnt-easily-squared/ Thu, 25 May 2023 20:05:18 +0000 http://kpp.active-interactive.com/?p=425 Industries ranging from soft drinks to furniture to electronics to fashion follow a one-way path of “make, take, and waste.” This linear operating system is straining resources, polluting oceans, and generating mountains of waste. Unrelenting pressure for growth continues to stress biodiversity and accelerate atmospheric warming, thereby increasing the intensity and incidence of drought, flooding, and migration. As a result, the public’s consent to resource-consumptive industries is increasingly at risk.

 

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/a_circle_that_isnt_easily_squared

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