  The Circular Economy (CE) is regarded as a solution to the environmental
crisis. However, mainstream CE measures skirt around challenging the ethos of
ever-increasing economic growth, overlooking social impacts and
under-representing solutions such as reducing overall consumption. Circular
Societies (CS) address these concerns by challenging this ethos. They emphasize
ground-up social reorganization,address over-consumption through sufficiency
strategies, and highlight the need for considering the complex
inter-dependencies between nature, society, and technology on local, regional
and global levels. However, no blueprint exists for forming CSs. An initial
objective of my thesis is exploring existing social-network ontologies and
developing a broadly applicable model for CSs. Since ground-up social
reorganization on local, regional, and global levels has compounding effects on
network complexities,a technological framework digitizing these
inter-dependencies is necessary. Finally, adhering to CS principles of
transparency and democratization, a system of trust is necessary to achieve
collaborative consensus of the network state.
