The Foundation has worked with some of the UK’s finest talent in communicating the concept of the circular economy through animation. Hear how the creators themselves got to grips with this concept.
Retail Week magazine provide extensive analysis into how the B&Q Youth Board have impacted on the company’s thinking.
Read, feedback and improve: an open source guide to the circular economy.
A wave of recent developments has rendered emissions trading schemes and EU carbon emissions taxes impotent.
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 already? It’s especially relevant in education where recycling has…
“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 thousands of tons of steelworks employing thousands of people an…
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.
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 traditional industrial practices put a pressure it won’t withsta…
What we know. In a circular economy energy flows through, but is increasingly based on current sunshine rather than fossil stocks; materials cycle as nutrients and by design; capital is rebuilt, whether this is the soils or upcycling materials or …
Consumption is, as we’re constantly told, what defines our modern western societies – not a very inspiring taxonomic place to be in, is it? Well, compared to being described as a hunter – gatherer or a farmer, one has to admit that simply falling …
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…
If only it were just about technology, y’know redesign a telephone for easy disassembly, perhaps shift to bioplastics for some of it, rework the components and choice of materials, develop a different relationship with suppliers and at the end of …
Artist Jacqui Jones and Harmless Packaging joined forces to “produce artwork that raises a dialogue about the importance of building sustainable future.”
Heading to Lille to attend the World Responsible Economy Forum had our little team reflect on an issue that tends to make the headlines more often than not these days – money, or rather the intricate and obviously flawed mechanisms that result in …
It’s a puzzling old world. No sooner has the IEA’s latest outlook on world oil (1) announced that as far as conventional and cheap-to-extract oil is concerned we are on a plateau of production and cannot expect to see the levels of 2006 again (so …
One of the principles of the circular model is that we should use insights from living systems to design systems that work and sustain themselves. Life has constantly adapted to survive and thrive, it’s been going on for more than 3 billion years…
There is an obvious distortion between the “services” and commodities provided by nature and the economic realities of everyday life, as resources do not have a price as such…
Janis Birkeland, Professor of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology, explains how re-designing our built environment is the only way to turn our negative development process into a virtuous circle.
Will the planet run out of oil in 2021, 2042 or 2105? How many trillions of barrels lie under the ground? As hard as you may look, you will not find a definitive answer to those questions.
The challenge of moving to a sustainable low carbon economy is huge, so doing something always seems better than doing nothing – yet panic is not a good counselor.
The extensive agriculture model, relying heavily on oil and offering a dubious environmental record, needs to be re-designed.
The Sustainable Development Commission published its “Advice to Government on priority elements of sustainable diets” in December 2009.
To understand how nature sustains life, we need to move from biology to ecology, because sustained life is a property of an ecosystem rather than a single organism or species.
The first macroeconomic report series into the size of the prize for business in the transition to a circular economy
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