Ellen Macarthur Foundation. Rethink the future

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Point of view: Treat emissions as resources, By Braungart & Mulhall

A wave of recent developments has rendered emissions trading schemes and EU carbon emissions taxes impotent. 

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Skills for a New Economy

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?

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Upcoming seminar with the Aldersgate Group: skills for a new economy

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and The Aldersgate Group are running a seminar on the 29th November 2011 for UK businesses to offer their perspectiv...

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Circular Economy MBA Network

In an important step in the growth of a circular economy dialogue, we are happy to announce the formation of a Business Schools Network. This netwo...

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Point of View: on long-term prospects & property development

“Does the sustainable property market require a new business model to evolve and prosper?”, asks Tom Watkinson.

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Point of view: Re-thinking business structures

"It is time, I believe, to start experimenting with the corporate structure", writes Patrick Andrews, a former lawyer who has been working on socia...

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Rethinking the Economy

Roland Clift and Julian Allwood outline how industrial ecology, applying chemical engineering thinking to the management of material flows in the e...

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Desso, 10 years to close the loop

Stef Kranendijk, CEO of Desso – one of Europe’s leading carpet tiles manufacturers – has decided his company would have fully closed the loop by 20...

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Bradford 10+1 international conference

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is joining forces with Bradford University to run a two day international conference on closed loop thinking, from t...

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The Energy Debate - Do you have the facts to make your choice informed?

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 ...

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Renewable energy, the impact of legislation (Part II)

Since the 2003 Energy White Paper, high demand for policy which legislates to improve the renewable energy industry and actively encourage its upta...

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Energy and emissions: legislation affecting Industry

An overview of the principal legally binding measures at work in the UK

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Sustainable Information Technology and Electronics

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.’ Techn...

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Renewable energy, the impact of legislation (Part I)

A technical look at the Clean Energy Cashback Scheme: what impacts upon the UK photovoltaic & wider energy market can be expected?