Project ReDesign blog archive
July 2011
We’ve got Cisco in our Systems
Innovation, profit, and future are all words we have ringing in our heads from dawn until dusk this week. Our time at Cisco has really begun to focus our minds on putting a concept ‘the circular economy’ into practice.
Creative thinking at BT internship
During our internship at BT, our task is to create a TV, Phone and Broadband package for young adults, particularly new graduates, that aims to use recyclable materials and move away from the existing linear economy. We have to bear in mind it has to be a sound business proposal and it has to be cost effective. This is a real challenge that the company is currently facing.
Is ‘Less’ the new ‘More’?
Welcome to Brockenhurst College, winners of the western region ReDesign Challenge. Below they describe a future scenario where businesses and homes engage democratically in the use and production of power from renewable sources. Coupled with this would be a drive for energy eficiency to lower demand and save money. But there is a dielmna here. What if the savings made by producing some of our own power locally are directed back in to a linear system? What if the money is used to buy more stuff made from declining natural resources and delivered and disposed of using the last viable oil reserves? What needs to happen to make the brave plans put forward by the Brockenhurst team come to fruition in a fully circular economy?
ReDesign internships: Re-thinking mobility
In a world of rising material and energy costs, could the electric car, with the right infrastructure, contribute towards achieving a circular economy?
June 2011
ReDesign blog: a look at vertical farming
At a time when a billion people go to sleep hungry every night can we really imagine a future where we can feed a predicted population of 9 billion in 2050? Welcome to Rainey Endowed School, Londonderry, the winners of the Northern Ireland ReDesign workshop who will be hosting the ReDesign blog for the next two weeks. They believe that vertical farms can provide the solution.
May 2011
Outwood Grange Academy Kick Off the ReDesign Blog
Welcome to Outwood Grange Academy, the winners of the north of England ReDesign Challenge. They will be hosting this blog for the next two weeks. Below they describe a host of activities inside and outside the classroom designed to make the school more sustainable. They are keen to hear your thoughts about how these practical projects might be developed and whether you have similar initiatives in your schools. We’re interested not only in how these projects might be extended in the present but also how the issues of food, energy, transport and materials might be addressed in a mature Circular Economy of the future. The trick is in turning the waste cycle on its head and to use closed loop systems thinking.
April 2011
Continuing the ReDesign Dialogue
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation ReDesign programme has provided the opportunity for more than 600 young people from schools and colleges across the UK to work together with our founding partners on some of the key challenges of the 21st century.
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