A wave of recent developments has rendered emissions trading schemes and EU carbon emissions taxes impotent.
How do we ensure that both the workforce of today and future generations are equipped with the skills needed to move towards a new, circular economy?
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and The Aldersgate Group are running a seminar on the 29th November 2011 for UK businesses to offer their perspective on the future skills required to build a new economy.
The Foundation’s Business Schools Network has been established with the vision to create a new approach in business schools and through MBA curricula that engages with the key ideas and priorities of a circular economy.
“Does the sustainable property market require a new business model to evolve and prosper?”, asks Tom Watkinson.
“It is time, I believe, to start experimenting with the corporate structure”, writes Patrick Andrews, a former lawyer who has been working on social enterprises and innovative business ventures such as the forward-thinking Riversimple car company.
Roland Clift and Julian Allwood outline how industrial ecology, applying chemical engineering thinking to the management of material flows in the economy, can point the way to a more sustainable economy.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is joining forces with Bradford University to run a two day international conference on closed loop thinking, from the 29th of November the the 1st of December
Rob Sauven, Managing Director of Vestas Wind Technology UK, sits on the board of Directors of RenewableUK. He gives us his views and invites us to play a little game.
Since the 2003 Energy White Paper, high demand for policy which legislates to improve the renewable energy industry and actively encourage its uptake has been seen.
An overview of the principal legally binding measures at work in the UK
Technology. This word no longer conjures up images of men with beards and lab coats huddled round a room-sized machine known as a ‘computer.’ Technology is now sleek, fast, fashionable and above all highly integrated into our lives. As we increasi…
A technical look at the Clean Energy Cashback Scheme: what impacts upon the UK photovoltaic & wider energy market can be expected?
The first macroeconomic report series into the size of the prize for business in the transition to a circular economy
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