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🌍 About Circularity Edge

 

We help leaders design businesses that grow profitably while sustaining the conditions required for life on Earth.


This is Sovereign Sustainability™ — and it is the foundation of Circularity Edge.

Why Circularity Edge Exists

  

For more than four decades, Ken Alston has pursued a single question:


What does it truly mean to sustain life — and what does that require from business?


This inquiry began long before sustainability became a corporate trend.
Long before ESG.
Long before “net zero” dashboards and compliance frameworks.


It began with a deeper realization:

Sustainability is not a program or performance metric.
It is the responsibility to sustain the conditions that make life possible — for all species, forever.
 
Modern sustainability has drifted far from this meaning.
It has become fragmented, performative, and predominantly 2D — a checklist layered on top of linear business models.

Circularity Edge was created to restore coherence:

  • semantic coherence
  • scientific coherence
  • systemic coherence
  • ethical coherence
  • economic coherence
     

And most importantly:


to restore the original purpose of sustainability: sustaining the conditions that allow life to continue.


This is the foundation of Sovereign Sustainability™.

The Problem: 2D Thinking in a 3D World

 Most companies are still operating on outdated assumptions:

  • that sustainability = reduced harm
  • that “life cycle” applies to non-living products
  • that “decarbonization” is a coherent strategy
  • that circularity means recycling on steroids
  • that ESG compliance = transformation
  • that business can thrive while ecological conditions collapse
     

These assumptions generate systemic risk — not resilience.

We call this:


Vitacide Risk™

The systematic destruction of the conditions required for life — and business — to continue.


Vitacide Risk™ shows up as:

  • supply chain breakdown
  • regulatory shocks
  • materials scarcity
  • Infraructure fragility
  • energy instability
  • increasing cost of doing business
  • brand incoherence
  • innovation stagnation
     

Companies cannot solve 3D problems with 2D tools.


Circularity Edge provides the 3D architecture.

Our Philosophical Foundation

Sovereign Sustainability™

Sovereign Sustainability™

Sovereign Sustainability™

 A worldview and operating logic rooted in the understanding that humanity’s highest purpose — echoed in Indigenous traditions and global religious texts — is to steward the conditions required for life.


This is not ideology. This is systemic reality 

Design Like Nature™

Sovereign Sustainability™

Sovereign Sustainability™

  Nature is the only known system that has sustained life for billions of years.

Its logic is cyclical, regenerative, and coherent.
DLN™ converts that logic into business design. 

The Tactical Tetrahedron™

Sovereign Sustainability™

The Tactical Tetrahedron™

 A proprietary 3D decision model exposing blind spots created by linear thinking.
Where 2D frameworks oversimplify, the tetrahedron reveals interdependence. 

Carbon Coherence™

Life Cycle → Use Cycle™

The Tactical Tetrahedron™

 A correction to widespread misinterpretation.


Carbon should not be eliminated — it should be in the right place, in the right form, in the right quantity, as William McDonough* has articulated.


Circularity Edge builds on this by defining the operational implications for business. 

Life Cycle → Use Cycle™

Life Cycle → Use Cycle™

Life Cycle → Use Cycle™

 Living things have life cycles.


Products and materials have use cycles.


Restoring this linguistic precision transforms design, policy, and strategy.


These concepts form the philosophical and functional backbone of Circularity Edge.

What We Do

  Circularity Edge helps CEOs, founders, and executive teams:

  • build resilience into their operating systems
  • redesign business models for profitable circularity
  • eliminate Vitacide Risk™ across the value chain
  • bring coherence to brand, product, and strategy
  • unlock innovation grounded in Nature’s logic
  • communicate with authority and integrity
  • realign decision-making to 3D, life-supporting principles
     

Our services include:

  • Sovereign Sustainability Diagnostic™
  • Business Model Circularity Mapping
  • Executive Strategic Advisory (Retainer)
  • Brand & Communication Coherence Audits
  • Product & Packaging Circularity Review
  • Keynote speaking and board briefings
     

Everything we do is grounded in Nature’s operating system — translated into business reality.
 

Leadership

Kenneth Alston — Co-founder & Chief Architect

Kevin De Cuba — Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead

Kevin De Cuba — Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead

  Ken Alston is one of the earliest and longest-practicing sustainability strategists in the world.
His contributions include:

  • Established one of the first corporate sustainability departments in the U.S. (1992)
  • Served 17 years with William McDonough and Michael Braungart, rising to CEO of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC)
  • Employee #2 of GreenBlue; started the Sustainable Packaging Coalition
  • Managed the creation of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and the first Cradle to Cradle® Product Certification (Version 1.0)
  • Senior Advisor and founding collaborator of the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas (CEPA)
  • Keynote speaker at all CEFA conferences from 2017–2025
  • U.S. State Department Earth Week Speaker (Germany, 2015)
  • Advisor to governments, universities, and multinational companies
  • Co-author of Real Circularity™
  • Host of the Circularity Catalyst Podcast
  • Creator of DLN™, Tactical Tetrahedron™, Vitacide Risk™, Carbon Coherence™, and Use Cycle Logic™
     

Ken’s life’s work is to restore sustainability to its original sovereign meaning, and to equip leaders with the structures required to build companies that sustain life — not degrade it.

Kevin De Cuba — Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead

Kevin De Cuba — Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead

Kevin De Cuba — Co-Founder, Circularity Edge & Americas Lead

 Kevin de Cuba has been a trusted collaborator for more than 15 years and is instrumental in advancing Sovereign Sustainability™ across the Americas.

His experience includes:

  • Sustainability Director for The Organization of American States (OAS)
  • Founder of CEPA — the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas
  • Creator and host of the Circular Economy Forum of the Americas (CEFA)
  • Regional & National  thought leader connecting governments, academia, and businesses
    Specialist in translating sovereign principles into actionable transformation across Latin America and the Caribbean


Kevin advances Circularity Edge as the primary lead for Spanish-speaking territories and regional partnerships — in alignment with the sovereign frameworks originslly authored by Ken. 

How to Engage

 

1. Take the Sovereign Sustainability Diagnostic™

Discover where Vitacide Risk™ is emerging inside your business.


2. Book a Strategy Call

 For CEOs and founders seeking clarity or a sovereign redesign of their business model. 


3. Explore the Frameworks

 Deepen your understanding of Sovereign Sustainability™ 


4. Invite Ken or Kevin to Speak

Bring Sovereign Sustainability™ to your leadership team, board, or event.

 

5. Be a Guest on the Circularity Catalyst Podcast

 Share your journey with an international community of change-makers. 


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Sustainability was never about saving the planet.

It was about sustaining the conditions that allow life — and business —to flourish.


This is the work of Sovereign leaders.
This is the work of Circularity Edge.

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Circularity Edge™,  Design like Nature™, Vitacide Risk™, Sovereign Sustainability™, Carbon Coherence™ and Use-cycle Logic™ are Trademarks of Circularity Edge, LLC 

 * https://mcdonough.com/new-language-carbon/ 

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