- As Halloween approaches, could you run a Pumpkin Rescue event and highlight the issue of food waste where you are?
- Should I be nervous about lab-grown meat? asks Time magazine – a question a few people are asking at the moment.
- Not many of these around – an MP willing to ask postgrowth questions while still in office. “Denmark is rich enough” says Uffe Elbæk.
- Speaking of growth, the Degrowth Budapest conference happened earlier this year. Videos of all the sessions are now online if you’d like to catch up.
The Earthbound Report 
Bad news for your favoured idea of modular phones. Google has cancelled it’s project Sea phone.
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN118065
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t seen that. Shame that Google’s dropped it, but if it’s got manufacturers thinking more about modularity, it may have done all the good work it was going to. A fully modular phone isn’t really necessary, just the ability to replace the parts that break or need to be upgraded most often.
Something to warm the cockles of your heart.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/waste-not-want-not-sweden-tax-breaks-repairs
Indeed, a practical circular economy measure. I’d bookmarked that one for next week’s roundup.