Since the launch of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, through our work in education, catalysing businesses and through the media we estimate that we have touched over 100 million people with the idea of a positive, circular economy.
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 a series of five hands-on workshops around the UK. A week’s …
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-national reach. So maybe it’s not such a surprise to see regions fr…
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.
The Chale Community Project – a partnership between the people of Chale on the Isle of Wight, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Southern Housing Group – has recently been awarded a Gold category Green Apple Award for environmental best practice f…
An exhibition currently held in the French capital shows how the city could adapt to a 2° C temperature rise and integrate sustainable solutions. Created by a group of architects and urban planners, as part of the Parisian Days of Energy and Clim…
Diversifying sources of energy is key, but when it comes to renewable sources, plants are often set in remote locations and getting the power to the end users can be a challenge in itself.
Futurefarms, established in 2004, is a non-profitmaking operation, and all proceeds from the sale of the food are used to cover costs and to build up the business.
Arguably the most famous “eco-neighbourhood” of Europe, the Vauban District in Freiburg, Germany, has been used as an example for over 10 years.
Opened on 24th November 2009, the world’s first osmotic power plant operated by Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy company
The first macroeconomic report series into the size of the prize for business in the transition to a circular economy
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