The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the MAKLAB are pleased to announce the launch of a series of free workshops looking at cradle-to-cradle design and the circular economy. These workshops are aimed at designers, engineers and teachers of D&T and …
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google to deliver keynote speech at the Schmidt-MacArthur Public Lecture.
Win up to £25k co-funding to design new products that make better use of resources.
100 companies to create $10bn economic value over three year period through commitment to circular economy initiatives
The Foundation releases a new report on the economic opportunity for the consumer goods sector.
Our independent expert advisor and friend Walter Stahel has recently become a full member of the Club of Rome.
The Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new animation on the circular economy, focusing on the shift from consumer to user.
“the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy”
The Teardown Lab roadshow reached Archbishop Holgate School, in York, on Wednesday 5 December.
Pulling everyday products apart to see how they could be re-designed within a circular economy framework.
The fourth blog from the Foundation’s activity in St. Petersburg this week.
Industry is taking the circular economy seriously. This is one of the messages coming through the series of circular economy workshops, lectures and round-table discussions currently taking place in St Petersburg.
On 20th November Ken Webster and James Pitt led a three-hour workshop on the circular economy to 80 students, lecturers and professors.
Two new Development/Field Officer positions have become available within the Foundation’s Education Team.
Today Ken Webster gave an open lecture on the circular economy – the business case for transition to an audience of some 70 academics and people from business in St Petersburg, Russia.
If you missed October’s TES webchat with Ellen MacArthur, catch up here.
A unique opportunity for designers and architects.
Ellen MacArthur discusses education and the circular economy live with Times Education.
Back in 1998 when I had a very and unreliable old car my approach to maintenance was hands on. I had very little money, so when the alternator broke I did what I’d grown up with. I took a punt, went down to the local scrap yard on the Isle of Wigh…
New research from Stanford University suggests transition to renewables can be done with today’s technology at costs roughly comparable to conventional energy
The Foundation is happy to announce the launch of a range of free teaching resources for use across UK schools.
An entry focusing on access over ownership has become runner-up in Core77 Design Awards.
Retail Week magazine provide extensive analysis into how the B&Q Youth Board have impacted on the company’s thinking.
The Foundation has helped develop a pop-up book introducing circular economy ideas.
The transition to a circular economy, visualised.
Fast Company comment on the growing trend of people not owning stuff.
Ellen MacArthur will be presenting at the launch of the Green Alliance’s Circular Economy Task Force this evening.
Ellen travels to Brussels to take part in the launch of the European Resource Efficiency Platform.
A range of experts identify circular development opportunities for London
How the transition to a circular economy is being implemented in China
New service Floow2 specialises in the short-term leasing of heavy machinery and staff.
We’ve given the website an overhaul to improve vistor experience
There’s still time to register for Tuesday’s webinar with Douwe Jan Joustra, on Governance and the Circular Economy.
Ellen will be speaking at the OECD Forum, and you can join the conversation online.
On Wednesday 16th May, Ellen will provide the closing keynote at an event on the energy-water-food nexus, organised by Shell and the City of Rotterdam.
On Friday 16th Ellen presented the first of a series of newly developed audio-visual presentations, at the Big Bang Fair, in Birmingham.
The Foundation and Education Scotland begin an educational research visit to the Netherlands.
Missed the live stream? Watch Ellen speaking on the circular economy and education in her LWF12 talk .
The Foundation and Education Scotland are inviting applications from secondary teaching staff for a group study visit to the Netherlands.
Watch the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Head of Learning present on the principles of the circular economy.
Ellen was interviewed live from Davos by the BBC yesterday, following her presentation of the Foundation economic report on the potential of a circular economic model. The research, which includes analytics by McKinsey & Company, outlines major op…
Founding Partner Renault recently released a short documentary on their work with Ellen MacArthur and the Foundation.
Frog design predict a breakthrough year for biomimetic design strategies.
Janez Potočnik highlights the importance of resource effectiveness in Europe’s future economic prosperity.
PricewaterhouseCoopers conduct an in-depth study in to the impact of future resource scarcity.
Click to learn more about how you can take part in a live webchat with Ellen next week.
Timberland has teamed up with Po-Zu to create a biodegradable shoe which can be taken apart and re-cycled.
Jon Snow, Channel 4 Newscaster talks to Dame Ellen MacArthur about the circular economy and rethinking the future, in a short film looking back on the first year of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
On 12th October, Ellen spoke at London’s RSA on the theme of ‘Re-imagining business: The transition to the circular economy’.
A new report, entitled Positive Energy, argues that it is feasible for renewables to deliver at least 60% of the UK’s electricity demand by the year 2030.
Construction has begun on the world’s first vertical forest in Milan. The 27-storey Bosco Verticale, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, will have trees such as oaks and amelanchiers planted in the building’s balconies. The plants will provide sh…
A coal-fired power station in Rodenhuize, Belgium has been converted into a 100% biomass unit.
Raynsway’s Watermead Business Park in Syston is now finished and duly occupied!
“To coincide with the British Science Festival, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has released a new ‘Risk List’ which ranks the risk to global supply of chemical elements of economic value. The list highlights vulnerable elements where global p…
Tickets are now available for an event showcasing some of the growing number of companies who are successfully using Cradle to Cradle to drive innovation, resource management, and long term profitability.
Forced to rethink its food supplies system after the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the implementation of the US embargo turning the oil tap off, Cuba has created an Urban Agriculture Department in 1994.
Today, reports show that 50% of fresh p…
EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger has explained in an interview to German business newspaper Handelsblatt that Germany must work closely with its neighbours in order to develop the infrastructure required to cater for the increased prop…
“What sets {Ellen MacArthur} apart from mainstream sustainability professionals is that she is not shy about speaking her mind and does not feel bound by normal business conventions”, writes Jo Confino in the Guardian Sustainable Business.
As detailed in an AFP news brief, Austria has decided to boost renewable energy investment whilst putting an end to the atomic age:
“Austria’s parliament passed a bill Thursday hiking government funds for renewable energy as the anti-nuclear co…
In collaboration with BT, Cisco and National Grid eighteen more students today take on industry-based challenges around the framework of the circular economy.
We’ve reached the final day here in Paris, and the presentation to Renault experts is just hours away.
The first ever internship on the circular economy kicks off on Monday 4 July, when 6 students take part in a week’s work experience with Renault, in Paris.
Ellen last Thursday (23rd of June) in Paris, starting with a stopover at the RTL studios – France’s most listened-to radio station – to record the ‘Element Terre’ show hosted by Louis Bodin.
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute hosted an event on June 9 to celebrate the world’s first ‘Cradle to Cradle Day’, which took place in San Francisco. The event was held as a celebration of the accomplishments of the Institute, and…
Leading home improvement retailer B&Q has taken an unprecedented step towards changing their business model by setting up a Youth Board composed of 16-18 year olds.
On June 15th, work will begin on the biggest solar panel project in the global automotive industry.
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 ReDesig…
A new scheme has opened in London providing 150 new charging points for electric vehicles, taking the capital’s total to 400.
EU unveils original initiative to tackle two different issues in one go – marine pollution and necessary quotas on fishing, which put pressure on jobs.
Ellen’s had an intense couple of weeks, travelling the length of the UK for various Foundation events. Here’s a summary of three recent highlights.
Building work has commenced on a 6,000 sq ft office project at Raynsway’s Watermead Business Park in Syston, with developers adhering to well-established PassivHaus design principles.
Italian website Design Boom is calling for entries for an exciting automotive design competition, run in collaboration with Renault. ‘Renault 4 Ever’ asks professionals, students and design enthusiasts from around the world to redesign the classic…
No more petrol and diesel vehicles allowed in European city centres by 2050? The EU Commission’s objectives are bold but if they are met, it could mean that a turning point will have been reached. Is urban living as we know it about to change?
In Oxford today Brockenhurst College became the last of five groups to win a prestigious week-long internship with one of our Founding Partners. They joined the list of winning teams from previous workshops in Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff and Belfast w…
Major French luxury group PPR joins forces with Cradle to Cradle and launches “Creative Sustainability Lab”.
In the penultimate of 5 Project ReDesign workshops around the UK, which took place at the Ulster Halls in Belfast today, Rainey Endowed School took the top prize of a week’s internship with one of our Founding Partners.
Ellen was in Paris for the past two days, talking to the press about the French version of “Full Circle” and updating the French public on the work of the Foundation…
Honiton Community College win Project ReDesign Cardiff event
Project ReDesign in Cardiff today – Ellen and her team challenge Welsh students at the National Museum of Wales this Monday.
The second Project ReDesign workshop at Royal Armouries, Leeds on Friday 4 March 2011 saw a group of six students from Outwood Grange Academy win the second of five week long internships within a leading UK industry, in July 2011.
The launch of Project ReDesign at Glasgow Science Centre on Tuesday 1 March 2011 saw a group of six students from Hutchesons’ Grammar School win the first of five week long internships within a leading UK industry, in July 2011.
Latest news: Live from the first Project ReDesign workshop, held in Glasgow today!
“Designed for lower speeds”… You may remember reading Ellen’s blog entry about the fleet of B Class container ships which ended up mothballed because they were… too fast.
It’s 9am, a freezing cold day at the end of January and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Project ReDesign team is in West London.
“If one good thing has come out of the recent financial crisis it’s this: business has realised it must abandon the short-term approach.”
“Sustainability (…) has drained the sexiness from design. If designers want to do some genuine good, it’s time to re-engineer their thinking.”
C2C at Davos – "From our conversations at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this year, it’s clear that sustainability has moved right to the heart of business debate. Debates on food, energy, water and of course climate change have dominated…
“Waste Revolution” – Institution of Civil Engineers says the progression to a ‘circular economy’ – where recovered and recycled materials are high enough quality to be routinely bought back into use, reducing the demand for goods made from raw mat…
The practicality of the cradle to cradle approach: seminar in Brussels on the 4th of February. Speakers will present current Cradle to Cradle initiatives in the presence of the Minister Joke Schauvliege (Flemish Minister of the Environment, Natur…
“Time to get a grip on our material world”, says Julie Hill in The Guardian – an excellent article about the urgent need to rethink our relationship to stuff and our archaic conception of waste…
Read it HERE
“How much does a gallon of gas cost?” – a very interesting article by Newsweek’s Ezra Klein, addressing the concept of “externality”.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/13/how-much-does-a-gallon-of-gas-cost.html
SD Scene editor Nick Saltmarsh looks back on 2010 and lists “the articles that most caught our readers’ attention in each month of the year.”
From Guerilla Gardening to Sustainable Development in higher education… Read the articles HERE:…
“This is the first time a c2c product is being launched on the Swedish market, and the first line of c2c children’s wear in the world,” says Jeppe Larsen, co-founder of Bonkeli design.
The shirts are made of the c2c optimised cotton fabric from…
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…
Artist Jacqui Jones and Will Anderson from Cyberpac / Harmless talk about their creative approach to communicating the issues around sustainability, while we take a look at finance and the “reign of the conjurors”, as Publicis France CEO Maurice L…
It’s a puzzling old world. No sooner has the IEA’s latest outlook on world oil 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 peak…
For those of you unable to attend the event in Bradford, the editorial team at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been busy working on the web coverage and will bring you a live blog from the event, accessible directly on the Foundation’s homepage…
Giving a talk with Ken Webster in front of 500 students on Tuesday Nov. 23 at the Manchester University Leadership Programme, then going to Lille to speak at the World Forum on Friday the 26th.
Over the past three days we’ve been researching further the idea of a circular economy in The Netherlands, and have been enthused and impressed by the progressive nature of what is happening there.
Read the blog HERE-…
biomimicryNL opens its doors to the public with the interactive exhibition ‘Biomimicry – Innovation Inspired by Nature, Our Epic Journey’. This event is a must-see for designers and innovators looking for ways to create sustainable designs. The …
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Head of Learning Ken Webster takes a look at an open-source, “Lego-like” set of tools and machines designed to kick-start, anywhere in the world, a local economy and community.
Read the complete article here…
Swansea University and Tata Steel are joining forces to produce sheets of steel coated with a light-sensitive film, sheets which would be used as electricity-generating warehouse roofing. It is estimated that the technology could produce a stagger…
“The economic importance of the world’s natural assets is now firmly on the political radar”, says an official United Nations Environment Programme’s press release, "as a result of an international assessment showcasing the enormous economic value…
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…
It was destined to become the world’s biggest tidal energy barrage, yet the consensus is now that the Severn estuary (between Wales and Somerset) project will not receive the necessary funding to be developed. The barrage, which had sparked contro…
An official report published by the Danish Government’s Climate Commission (Klimakommissionen) predicts that the country could put an end to its fossil fuel dependency by 2050, relying on wind and biomass to produce its energy.
Read more and do…
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is joining forces with Bradford University to run a two day international conference on closed loop thinking.
“10 international lecturers at the cutting edge + 1 key perspective on the transition to a sustainable …
Free download – All you might need to create a presentation around the circular economy, and related concepts. 13 Illustrations created by Richard Crookes for the book Sense and Sustainability for use in continuing professional development worksho…
Faro architects of the Netherlands created a stunning C2C house, focusing their design on materials and energy, in order to comply with the passive house principles. The stylish dwelling, which has received a Passie…
Wind energy generation in UK reaches 5GW – enough to power all homes in Scotland.
“Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, off the Kent coast, has 100 turbines and will generate electricity equivalent to the annual consumption of over 200,000 British househ…
“Emerging economies are more agile in their ability to change practices”, says Harmless MD Will Anderson, creator of a range of compostable wrapping and packaging products which spark a lot of interest abroad.
Read our full interview HERE…
“Higher education has a unique contribution to make towards sustainable development”, says Joanna Simpson, Senior Policy Adviser, Higher Education Funding Council for England.
“University researchers were the first to alert the world to global…
Stef Kranendijk, CEO of Desso, has decided his company would have fully closed the loop by 2020. A convincing advocate of the Cradle to Cradle philosophy, he regularly addresses business leaders and government representatives to promote a model th…
Biodegradation of polystyrene: two young Canadians received the International Stockholm Junior Water Prize for their work. The competition brings together the world’s brightest young scientists to encourage their continued interest in water and th…
Watch the video shot during the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s official launch on September the 2nd at the Science Museum in London.
Fast Company’s mission statement is to “empower innovators to challenge convention and create the future of business”. They caught up with Ellen MacArthur to learn about the Foundation.
As part as Belgium’s Presidency of the council of the European Union, Flemish Environment Minister Joke Schauvliege became President of the EU’s Environment Council on the first of July this year…
Ellen visits InterfaceFLOR and finds out about how the company closes the loop.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was officially launched yesterday evening at the Science Museum in London.
Getting to the stage of launching our new Foundation has been a roller-coaster, not unlike sailing round the world, but this time the challenge is different.
“It’s not just about having a place to buy a paper and a pint of milk. Community-owned shops bring a whole community together around a common cause and this process is leading to other community-led actions and benefits that would not have happene…
During a speech at the American Chemical Society’s 240th national meeting, Walter Kohn, Ph.D. (who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and now teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara) looked at the possible responses to t…
Gathering Cradle to Cradle certified products – “The Green Products Innovation Institute Inc. (GPII) is a non-profit organization created to bring about a large scale transformation in the way we make the things we make.”
“Fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and other foreign luxuries could be part of a global revolution by carrying cargo around the world in airships instead of planes, one of the UK’s leading scientists has predicted.” (The Guardian)
Economic stimulus investment by the federal government in the past 18 months will enable the US to double geothermal, solar and wind energy output by 2012, according to a new White House report detailed by Vice President Joe Biden.
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The first macroeconomic report series into the size of the prize for business in the transition to a circular economy
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