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Recycling and the circular economy
One of the biggest confusions around a circular economy framework is that sparked by the word ‘recycling’. Surely a circular economy just means more recycling, more of what happens alread...
Towns in transition: from Grytviken to Detroit
“There were ships filling the harbours, some of which still line the shores today, and spare propellers and patterns for producing engine parts (...) This was a massive industry with thou...
Ellen MacArthur signs expert crew
Ellen MacArthur unveiled a high-profile line-up of independent experts to help ensure her quest for a design and systems revolution stays on course.
Mining... out in the open?
Materials and energy are at the heart of the Foundation’s preoccupations and message - in a world of finite resources where the overall long term trend is rising prices, and on which trad...
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Walter Stahel on the Performance Economy
Professor Walter Stahel provides an insight into the opportunities posed by shifting towards a ‘performance economy’.
Point of view: Walter Stahel on taxation
"Taxing renewable resources is against the logic of a sustainable society. Human labour – work - is a renewable resource which has not been recognised as such by politicians so far."
An evening with Alex Steffen and Ellen MacArthur at the RGS.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the University of Bradford are happy to welcome Alex Steffen, editor of the best selling book WorldChanging and leading futurist, to an evening lecture...
Non-linear systems… and preconceptions.
Myths are powerful, neither true or entirely false, they point to sensitivities around how we think of ourselves. Its quite easy to spot them. If it’s got leverage, then it is probably pa...
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La récupération de chaleur : une solution innovante et prometteuse
Au regard des standards actuels, certaines centrales s’appuient sur des technologies quelque peu dépassées or, revoir l’ensemble des systèmes de production d’énergie et repartir de zéro n...
Project ReDesign launched today
The first Project ReDesign workshop has taken place on Tuesday March 1 in Glasgow. Over the next month Ellen and the team will challenge up to 1000 young people to re-think the future in ...
Facing future challenges together
It often has been said that the European Union would give power back to regional authorities by minimising the effects of centralisation, as a natural knock-on effect of its supra-nationa...
Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Nuffield Foundation launch Futures resource
Dame Ellen MacArthur and Cris Edgell launch the new skills-based cross-curricular Futures resources at the Association for Science Education Annual Conference, Reading 6 January 2011.