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The Big Food Redesign Challenge | Designing Food for Nature to Thrive

The Big Food Redesign Challenge, launched May 24, 2023, by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Sustainable Food Trust, invites businesses and innovators to develop nature-positive food products. This initiative offers FMCGs, SMEs, and startups opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration, expert support, and significant showcase potential, including retail space. Discover more at www.bigfoodredesign.org.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Connect with us: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and our website.

Since 2018 Barcelona's Superblocks have transformed the city by revitalising urban spaces #Shorts

Since 2018, Barcelona's Superblock Initiative has transformed the city, creating more space for pedestrians, cyclists, and greenery. Developed by Barcelona Collegi Urbana, this urban mobility plan reduces traffic in nine blocks, opening over 65% of public space and improving quality of life. Its international acclaim underscores the need for new urban mobility models.

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Barcelona's Superblock Initiative: Revitalising Urban Spaces since 2018 | From the Archives

Since 2018, Barcelona's Superblock Initiative has transformed the city, creating more space for pedestrians, cyclists, and greenery. This plan, developed by Salvador Rueda, reduces traffic, opening up 65-70% of public space and improving quality of life. Its success, explored in this Circular Economy show, highlights the need for new urban mobility models.

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[Ep. 5 Circular Design for Food] Growing the nature-positive food market

The final episode of "Circular Design for Food: Rethinking Products to Regenerate Nature" explores how retailers integrate circular design. It highlights companies prioritizing products that support ecosystem recovery, transforming supplier relationships, and backing small farmers.

This video is from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity promoting a circular economy. This design-driven approach eliminates waste and pollution, circulates materials, and regenerates nature.

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[Trailer EN 1] Circular design for food: Rethinking products to regenerate nature

‘Circular design for food: rethinking products to regenerate nature’ is a five-episode documentary series. It showcases Brazilian and Colombian companies adopting nature-positive circular design, inspired by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's 2021 report, 'The Big Food Redesign.' The series highlights how Latin American businesses can transform food systems to support biodiversity, preserve forests, and improve community well-being.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, promotes the circular economy: a design-driven approach that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Subscribe to their YouTube channel and visit their website. Connect with them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

[Trailer EN 2] Circular design for food: Rethinking products to regenerate nature

The five-episode documentary series, "Circular design for food: rethinking products to regenerate nature," showcases companies in Brazil and Colombia adopting circular design to become nature-positive. Based on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's 2021 report, "The Big Food Redesign," the series highlights how these businesses support biodiversity, preserve forests, and improve the quality of life for farmers and traditional communities in Latin America.

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[Ep. 1 Circular Design for Food] Designing food for nature to thrive

Redesigning our food system to help nature thrive—by increasing biodiversity, reducing waste and pollution, and enhancing production—starts with product design. The series 'Circular Design for Food: Rethinking Products to Regenerate Nature' explores what circular design for food is and why it's important.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, develops and promotes a circular economy. This approach, driven by design, eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

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[Ep. 3 Circular Design for Food] Collaborating to preserve the forests

This video, from the 'Circular Design for Food: Rethinking Products to Regenerate Nature' series, showcases how Brazilian organizations create unique products from forest ingredients. They prevent deforestation through ethical partnerships with Amazon communities, ensuring the forest remains standing.

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[Ep. 4 Circular Design for Food] Regenerating soils at scale

This video explores regenerative production, a crucial element of circular design for food that improves land rather than degrading it. We feature companies scaling regeneratively grown ingredients, collaborating with farmers, and encouraging diversification.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, promotes a circular economy that eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

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[Ep. 2 Circular Design for Food] Cultivating biodiversity and resilience

This episode of 'Circular Design for Food: Rethinking Products to Regenerate Nature' explores how companies in Brazil and Colombia use local food varieties to boost environmental resilience, preserve ecosystems, and support farmer livelihoods.

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Design Leverage Point 6: Develop tools to design & evaluate #shorts

Design Leverage Point 5: Rewrite the rules #shorts

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a UK charity dedicated to developing and promoting the concept of a circular economy.

This economic model, driven by design, aims to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate natural systems.

Design Leverage Point 1: Observe and interpret the system #shorts

John Fullerton Explains Regenerative Economics

Capital Institute founder John Fullerton discussed Regenerative Economics on April 1, 2020. He outlined how to achieve a just, sustainable way of living by aligning with living systems thinking.

For more information and to explore this discussion further, visit the Volans website: https://volans.com/tomorrows-capital-institute-john-fullerton/. You can also connect with Volans on Twitter (@VolansHQ), via email (info@volans.com), or by phone (+44 20 3701 7550).

Regenerating nature, climate change and the circular economy with Nick Jeffries

On episode 59 of The Circular Economy Show, Nick Jeffries from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explores how the circular economy can tackle climate change. He emphasizes nature's regenerative potential, discussing a project on regenerative rice farming and the importance of scaling such models to reduce emissions and accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

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The Earthshot Prize Winners, NotPla are transforming packaging with seaweeds & plant solutions.

Notpla, an Earthshot Prize-winning startup co-founded by Pierre Paslier, creates innovative packaging from seaweed and plants. Their solutions, including edible bubbles and biodegradable containers, offer sustainable alternatives to single-use plastics, composting to nourish new growth. Watch their CEShow episode to learn more: Notpla CEShow.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions the circular economy. This design-driven approach eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products, and regenerates nature. Explore their work and subscribe for insights: YouTube | Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn.

Can investors drive a circular economy transition?

Investors are increasingly backing the circular economy, reflecting a growing awareness. Paul Bodnar (BlackRock) and Audrey Choi (Morgan Stanley) highlight its long-term value and investment opportunities, especially given finite resources. This discussion is from an Ellen MacArthur Foundation show.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions the circular economy, which aims to eliminate waste, circulate materials, and regenerate nature through design.

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The Circular Economy Show's 2022 Review

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How Earthshot Prize winners Notpla are eliminating plastic waste with seaweed packaging

Notpla, an Earthshot Prize 2022 winner, combats plastic waste with an edible, soluble membrane that holds liquids. Co-founder Pierre Paslier explains how this innovation replaces plastic packaging, demonstrated effectively at the London Marathon. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions the circular economy—a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate materials, and regenerate nature.

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Ellen MacArthur accepts the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation

Ellen MacArthur's Princess of Asturias Award speech recognized her Foundation's contributions to the global plastics agenda, including partnering with WWF for a UN plastic pollution treaty. She connected her global journey to finite resources, advocating for a circular economy as a solution for climate change and plastic pollution.

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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection

“The Thinking Game” is the inside story of DeepMind's groundbreaking AI research, culminating in the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold breakthrough. Filmed over five years by the award-winning team behind "AlphaGo," this documentary explores co-founder Demis Hassabis's lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence and the rigorous scientific journey from mastering strategy games to solving the 50-year-old protein folding problem.

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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection