Build on your community’s strengths, see local resources differently and develop opportunities that improve wellbeing, grow local prosperity and restore living systems.
Learn through our own practical stories and apply the concepts to your community. Explore how resources flow, how useful value can stay in circulation and how connected enterprises could strengthen your local economy.
Shared values, commercial analysis and learning through action guide the work. Each module contributes to a clearer opportunity and a practical next decision.
Explore the concepts behind the learningBuild your understanding of the wider economy, identify local opportunities and develop a practical path forward. Business-case evidence accumulates throughout the learning.
Explore climate change, resource use, economic resilience, food security and community wellbeing. Use CRISIS to understand what is changing, what matters locally and where improvement is possible.
Explore technical topic 01Indigenous knowledge, stewardship, reciprocity and seven-generation thinking. Build on local knowledge and strengths to move towards a more regenerative future.
Explore technical topic 02Recognising overlooked local assets, waste streams, skills, land, culture and economic opportunities, including energy, heat and water.
Explore technical topic 03Introduces COASTAL, STEWARD, the six stages of CIRCLE and the three outcomes: people, prosperity and planet.
Explore technical topic 04How healthy soil, composting, land restoration and regenerative agriculture support food production, ecosystems and local economies.
Explore technical topic 05Identifying local resource flows, infrastructure, stakeholders, underused assets and potential circular-economy opportunities across food, energy, water and materials.
Explore technical topic 06Composting, biochar, wood recovery, construction waste, metals, materials recovery and circular enterprise opportunities, including potential energy and heat applications.
Explore technical topic 07Local farms, greenhouses, forestry byproducts, mine reclamation and productive landscapes, including their connections to energy, heat and water systems.
Explore technical topic 08Commercial models, equipment, infrastructure, capital costs, operating costs, revenue, financing and partnerships. Uses OPPORTUNITY to bring evidence and assumptions together.
Explore technical topic 09Indigenous tourism, cultural experiences, land-based learning and opportunities to build local value through visitors.
Explore technical topic 10Prioritising opportunities, feasibility, funding, governance, implementation planning and creating a realistic first project.
Explore technical topic 11Developing a community roadmap, building momentum, measuring outcomes and establishing the next steps.
Explore technical topic 12The 12 modules provide the curriculum. CIRCLE connects the learning to context, vision, team alignment, solution design, implementation and continued development.
OPPORTUNITY helps you record commercial evidence and assumptions as you progress. Modules 9 and 11 bring that work into an initial business case and a realistic first project.
Every topic contributes evidence for a decision about what your community could build and how it could work.
Who needs the product or service? Will they pay? Are the inputs, land, infrastructure and skills available?
Assess revenue, operating requirements, capital and cash flow. Define ownership, governance, partners and responsibilities.
Identify assumptions, approvals, constraints and evidence gaps. Decide what needs investigation before committing.
Consider meaningful work, local economic value and ecological outcomes together. Agree measures and a practical first phase.
This technical library supports specific resource recovery and operational opportunities. Select relevant topics alongside the 12 core modules. The wider learning also considers food enterprise, energy and heat, water systems, tourism and cross-sector partnerships.
See the connections between resources, local enterprise and community wellbeing.
Explore technical topic 01Follow materials from forests and buildings into reuse and recovery opportunities.
Explore technical topic 09Understand the biological process behind producing stable compost.
Explore technical topic 02Explore how soil decisions connect to local food production and resilience.
Explore technical topic 05Build an informed understanding of biosolids and the decisions around their management.
Explore technical topic 06Connect healthy soils, forests and land restoration within the wider resource system.
Explore technical topic 07Explore practical uses for recovered wood and the decisions behind each pathway.
Explore technical topic 08Explore the daily decisions behind a safe and workable resource recovery operation.
Explore technical topic 03Explore technology choices that can support a growing operation.
Explore technical topic 15Explore how collection, processing and public participation fit together.
Explore technical topic 10Explore how people participate in a workable resource recovery system.
Explore technical topic 11Explore how stewardship, governance and long-term thinking shape regenerative enterprise.
Explore technical topic 12Connect resource recovery with useful products and viable markets.
Explore technical topic 04Bring material supply, market demand and operations into a practical business case.
Explore technical topic 13Build a useful view of both commercial performance and wider outcomes.
Explore technical topic 14