CIRCULAR ECONOMY FNQ | HELPING BUSINESS TO:

REDUCE  ⭕️ REDESIGN ⭕️ REGENERATE ⭕️

What we do up to 2030 will make an impact to those who live on this planet for the next 1000.  STEM and predictive analytics tells us.   This is the WHEN


We can actually get a lot done in a short amount of time if we work together. 

Business & Designers will develop the next generation jobs in a circular economy as we re-establish Manufacturing back on Australian soil but with a different resource.

AKA Waste [inputs].  HOW

WHO We need STEEM kids and Elders [kindy's], WHAT Economics, COMPULSORY Product Stewardship Certification & feedback loops via ISO59000 which will help us execute the Slavery Act of 2018.  The ripple effect will impact economic, environmental and social systems.   WHERE; We believe that decentralised systems and manufacturing is the key to reducing Scope 3 Emissions on our every day products. Product Stewardship Certification is the policy that will change Trade & SAVE THE OCEAN. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

BE THE CHANGE

We are going for GDR statues for Education.  We are working systems analysis and measuring via feedback loops on the relevant Industry 5.0 jobs that can be road tested in FNQ.  Product Stewardship Certification and Slavery Act 2018 are the two core policies that drive our projects.


Our chair has started a for profit business so that the profits can further our work while building an economic model that Circular Economy FNQ can deliver in the region. For Product Stewardship Certification in FNQ.


It is centred around MicroFactories and Industry that is owned by the people through tried economic models. 

There are 3 systems in Circular Economy; Social, Environmental and Economic are also key feedback loops that gives us patterns and trends on what is working and what isn't.  Right in the middle of a World Heritage Sandwich. 


The Economic System is based on an economic framework that services the Producer Liability Policy that is a cornerstone policy of Circular Industrial Economy   is the framework designed by Walter R. Stahel, a Swiss Architect who saw how to reduce transport and carbon emissions by designed a decentralised framework that would see economical development in regional and remote areas.   His key regional strategy is Microfactories.


People = Social. Planet = Ecological. Economical = reManufacturing.
These systems need our undivided attention.


We believe that moving from Sustainable to Regenerative systems achieved by downsizing, community and intergenerational learning.  More natural, less plastic. 


On-demand manufacturing is a key manufacturing strategy that has a huge impact on  = REDUCE.  No minimum orders.


We also need to focus on REPAIR we are going to miss the Paris Agreements' global temperature increase limit of 1.5 degrees, that means we also have ADAPTION in our roadmap to 2030.  This Blue Carbon Project is the result of 3.5years of research by our Chair that is focused on Phytoplankton a key environmental lever in Climate Change.

KEY THINGS WE'RE DOING IN 2026

Les Robinson advised that every revolution started with a conversation.  So this is how you can join us in our yarns.

  1. Join our Book Club we are starting in February 2026 with the book Awe by Julia Baird.  It will feed your soul and it's about respecting Nature and treating trauma at the same time.
  2. Register for our viewing of Ocean that will be before school starts in 2026 Ocean - By David Attenborough will have discussions and next steps for getting involved in our Blue Carbon project.
  3. We help deliver on the social purpose of our main sponsor we made it better for the planet trauma informed education pathways so that we have an inclusive table (fire side yarns) of the Circular Industrial Economy.

Product Stewardship Certification

Well we thought we'd give it a crack.


We have an idea.  We are all in and we are going into research and development land while going straight to market.


We have KAOSPilot and STEEM Education as our education deliverables for extra curricular activities that help cross the knowledge barrier while providing roll models and mentors that fix the ripple effects of the Baby Bonus and Housing codes, micro grids, micro factories and economic models that have worked for over 100 years in the pockets they've been allowed to thrive but up until now, never been allowed to scale.

Updates Through The Blog

Data Driven Road Map

In order to make all this work we really do have to understand systems.


And t
hat is what Trash Talk is about.

Discussing where there is
an insane amount of waste in systems and how might we see opportunities where there is a problem.


We are more alike then we think. But different worldviews is the only way that the theory of Collective Intelligence can come up with something that fosters divergent thinking. A muscle that went untrained through our education years but the trick is we never stop learning.

In fact the more we keep learning the less Alzheimers and other brain degradation happens. Unless you live near a farm that uses Paraquat.

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Education - Environmental Science

Did you know that the Ocean is starving ATM, it needs Iron, biogenic Iron Dust. 


exOIS is a 10 year Ocean Science Research that needs 100tonne per day for 100 days for 5 Ocean Iron Seeding sites and we have two in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, ACC, that is also somewhere we can monitor for 30x30 Ocean Treaty goal he mentions in Ocean.


The Blue Carbon project increases Phytoplankton through safe Diatom Blooms that creates lipids that gives the Surface Micro Layer a clean flush and gets rid of microplastics and causes micro iron rich poos to become a powerful carbon sink for 30% of the carbon in the atmosphere. 


We will be doing discussions and Q&As around Ocean Treaty with screenings of David Attenborough's Ocean AND

we have a Neurospicy STEEM Research Journal PT1 [7-12] being released on the 1st of 4 Screenings we are going in 2026.

Book Into Ocean Screening Jan

Support Us, Buy Tees For Yourself Or Your Business

This is how we stay self funded and also use the most valuable real estate you have, your chest.


The tees fund StEEM Education & Camps as a fundraising tool instead of chocolates.

Our tees are ONLY cotton, with non-toxic inks which means you can throw it in the compost bin at the end of their life.


Buying a shirt also gets you access to our online community for
Potluck Dinners, Book Club and other research and micro learning events we are building.

We are about Education and Data and Feedback loops.

Sustainable Development Goals

& Product Stewardship Policy Giddyups.
Reach out to us if you are a brand that wants to Flex Your Green - and get your brand on our
Trash Talk Tee.

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Want To Be A Carbon Neutral Human?  Join us in our Circular Citizen Challenge.

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Our Challenge Continues Till The 17th Of June 

We are developing Courses that will be included in your Circular Citizen Memberships

Did you know there are over 200 businesses in Cairns, Palm Cove and Port Douglas who already moving towards being a Zero Waste business?   

Join us in our Circular Citizen Challenge where you can show the businesses you buy from that you want them to also become a Zero Waste Business
so that you can be a Carbon Neutral Human while living in or visiting FNQ.

We believe that when we work together we can slow and even reverse climate change,
reduce the likelihood of 1billion Climate Change refugees and save the Daintree and Great Barrier Reef and all the wildlife that call both our World Heritage listed assets home, at the same time. 


We are doing this challenge in 2 ways.  Measuring your carbon footprint through the Reforest App.
We are asking those of you who have a great waste sorting system at home to share your waste sorting or reduction hacks on your Instagram or Facebook page so that we can curate those lessons in our Online Course we are building for our Circular Citizen membership. 

We believe in collective intelligence as the way to learn and overcome things faster, so we are bringing you out of socials and onto an online course where we can put those key lessons into a powerful checklist that we can share, over and over again. 

p.s. if you have any aunties, nanas or older gen who aren't tech aware, go over and film them too.  Learn more about the challenge by clicking the button below.  💚

#bettertogether

JOIN THE CHALLENGE

Support Local Kid Entreprenuers By Sorting Your Waste!

It Is What You Do At Home That Matters The Most.


Designing out single use in our products and having Product Stewardship Certification = the manufacturer pays for the end of life management of the stuff we buy. 

Means a better quality of life and more local jobs.

Recycling can be reManufacturing if we sort our waste.

When you measure something, you improve it, you change habits.




Keep Informed with CEFNQ

Articles and Resources

Transitions are full of pivots and we are doing Research and Development across Economic, Environmental and Social Systems and it is in relation to tropical and remote locations with a diverse cultural fabric as the background of the population.

We also happen to be the location where retired Botanists come to and they can be a source of intelligence for mentors and sounding boards on roadmaps.  Intergenerational education, bringing the family back into education.

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