Buffalo.network
Circular economy as a service
Hey there. You’re reading this online, and chances are you have another tab open where you were looking to buy stuff online. It’s the 2019 way of accessing things. When we need something, we order it, and it comes to us. We (might) use it for a while, throw it away or store it to throw it away a few years later. So here’s the case: throwing out stuff is dumb. What would happen if we, instead of throwing it out, let someone else use it? What if re-use was as easy as getting it, as easy as ordering stuff online?
We’re team Buffalo. And in this year’s biggest Blockchain & AI hackathon in the world, we’re redefining what ownership is for resources. We’re making it obsolete by guaranteeing re-usability of all resources. Think this is impossible? We’ve done it before. Think Spotify. Think Spotify for resources.
The problem to solving this is not in the resources. We have enough stuff. It’s just not in the right places, at the right time. So here’s the deal. The problem to solving this is in starting at a different design, while introducing a protocol to Track, Commonize and Distribute.
The current method of designing products around us, is to throw it out. We call that planned obsolescence: designing for wasteful consumption. This current economic trajectory will create a world of depletion and scarcity. This also makes it that we don’t value things that we cannot recycle anymore.
Changing this design at the very start of the production would be easiest, but that might be out of our control. So we’re starting from the here and now, changing the design for the future.
Track
(Automatically) registering resources you do not need or value anymore and giving it up for other people being able to use this.
Commonize
By doing so, we transform garages from a physical location of things to a database of resources. These resources can move around to fulfill a functional need. Over time, a critical mass of resources will lead to the ability to detach value from these resources, while abundance would remove the need of owning them. As a result, we shift from material to functional wealth.
Distribute
Resources get shared and repurposed in the circle. When a resource breaks down, first humans and over time machines take it out to deconstruct and repurpose it: creating lego blocks for an unlimited loop of re-usage.
In doing this, Buffalo.network introduces the commons. We standup for guaranteed re-usability. From this starting point we can begin to construct our new world order. We are constructing the circular economy as a service.
Imagine a world with Buffalo.network where you can still order online what you want when you want it. But while doing this, think back of 2019 when we were wasting enormous amounts of resources in the process, when we already had everything we needed right there under our noses.
