My school is one of the six pathfinder schools ( schools that are closely linked with the foundation). She came for our awards ceremony last month and I got to go up and shake her hands, which felt like a real privelige. She gave a really great talk about the circular economy, how people were already starting to use the concept and where she wanted it to go, it was fantastic! I think that it's really important to educate children everywhere about what the linear economy is, why it needs to be ch

In third world countries, circular economy has worked for decades. Take, make, waste model, is present mainly in first world and in high income families. Poor people around the world, are used to reuse "single use products" as many times is possible before they break. In México poor people wash disposable cutlery, cups and plates because they can not afford to give them away. In deed there are street markets where you can find second hand mobile phones, washing machines, refrigerators, electrical appliances, computers, etc., and you can even find spare parts for their old models, and if you can not find spare part, you can find someone to make or adapt one. It is great that finally First World learn something from third world.

you wouldn't think there's that much else to learn about it, I learn something new every year within that week. Thanks, Ellen MacArthur!!!

Very inspiring , great talk really brings the detail to life

What a fantastic speaker!

If her foundation can educate people then it is an experience that is well worth it. I my self have learned this over a 30 year period. I went to med school and served in the UK armed services and then done post grads in statistic and mathematics. This could have all been considered a waste of resources and it would have costed allot more than sailing around the world. To be honest the random open approach that our society has is better than a structured approach that is efficient.

Great information!

anyway, in short, I was saying the circular economy and related topics should be a big part of education throughout the world because it's my generation who will be dealing with our resources running out. I would have had no idea about any of this if we hadn't been taught so much about it. Also, every year, my school has a circular economy week when we combine normal subjects with content relating to the circular economy and it gives us so much more information about the whole topic and although

The glory that is coming out of you is truly wonderful: keep pushing the circular economy model. Have you had the time to appraise the proposed Sustainable Development Goals of the UN to see how compatible they are to your circular approach and advice them? Maybe I should do that and give email you a report.

wonderful… best wishes...

Given the way that she never takes a breath, I can totally believe that she hardly slept on that journey.

amazing

It’s great

Fantastique Ellen. L'anglaise préférée des français.

At least she learned that our current approach is based upon finite systems approach. There are masses of people walking around that know nothing beyond football, soaps and reality TV. If here awareness of this can make a few hundred aware of this then it would not be inefficient compared to the amount of energy that goes into reality tv.

Thank goodness someone else passionately cares about the future....was beginning to feel more and more like an outcast!

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So passionately that she spends time sailing!!!

And find an efficient solution to the problem!

THE VENUS PROJECT

oh come on, it cut off most of my comment!

The venus project will not happen. The venus project was a solution to problems in the 60s but it would require everybody on planet earth to desire and enact a resource based economy. Information based economies will happen before a resource based economy. To be honest they will acheive the same thing and that is abundance. But the main difference with the information approach is that it will expand human intelligence.

You need to continue building suburbs. The private houses are so beatiful and you can make sense of your own car and buy a huge amount of stuff and drive long distances. This will help to use resources 10-100 times more efficently than vertical densely populated cities. Urban sprawls allow also to elluminate the whole planet at night. Isn't egoistically destroying your environment by beatiful houses and cars inspiring? Every chineese needs a beatiful car and private house. Seriously, I cannot agree with only one thing. The first R in he concept of sustainability (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) is _Reduce_ -- we must consume less in the first place and reuse what we have produced, rather than focus on recycling of the goods. You should understand that whatever you do, even when recycle, you inevitable have leaks, the losses. So, you should minimize the amount of things that you do. Otherwise, it is this is a brilliant talk. It starts a bit scary, as a piece of crap, the stupid dream of stupid sheep, which everybody must have in order to stay a stupid sheep. But, she has managed to break through the "Matrix" and realize the true values, the goal and way to save civlization. Thourghout my school, I came to the same idea, I was affirming the idea that the absolute beauty = efficiency (growing entropy is evil), despite the purpose of our existence, exploited by capitalists, is to buy house and burn gasoline. Might be it is because I am is also stupid. "Normal" people think that more complex and more waste we do, for instance keeping all lights on all the night along just because it is expensive and when we can afford it, means that we are successful and can afford it and wasting correlates with good. Also, stupid people cannot handle chaos and, therefore, notice how things can be imporved (made more simple). Smart asses consider Occam's principle of absolute beauty rediculous. They consider that beauty is more complex because this makes the thing unique and expensive. That is the paradox: stupid people rather than smart asses can really appreciate the true, absolute beauty and truth. Even ancients have noticed "Simplex veri sigillum", which means "idiots do not lie" or "simplicity is a sign of truth".

sorry, the apostrophes are being strange....

bollocks