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Transforming the food system requires retailers to embrace practices that enable nature to thrive. This episode explores how leading retailers worldwide are adopting circular design for food, navigating challenges along the way. Guests Helly McAlister (Fortnum & Mason) and Susy Yoshimura (Grupo Carrefour Brazil), from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Big Food Redesign Challenge, share insights on strategic investment, cultivating customer demand, cross-team collaboration, and scaling initiatives.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an international charity promoting a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Discover more about their work and the Big Food Redesign Challenge products below.
Useful links:- A guide to using circular design for food to build business resilience
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- Ep 177: Biodiversity, collaboration and visionary leadership in the food system
- Ep 179: How start-ups, SMEs, and corporations change the food system
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The circular economy is a powerful climate tool, yet its benefits are often overlooked by carbon accounting frameworks. In this episode, João Murilo Silva Merico from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explains how current protocols, like the GHG Protocol, fail to recognize emissions reductions from circular practices (reuse, remanufacturing), distorting decision-making.
Learn why circularity's climate impact is hidden and what policy, reporting, and business changes are needed. Download the full paper for more details: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/ghg-emissions-accounting.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Explore their work: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org, and connect on Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube.
The circular economy is rapidly becoming a reality across diverse sectors. In this episode, Seb discusses four key stories: rethinking product design for tech like iPhones, boosting global copper recycling rates, consumers' growing attention to eco-friendly ads, and a major brand implementing digital product passports for clothing.
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To move beyond current oligarchies and restore environmental protections and social safety nets, we must build a more equitable, partnership-based economy. Dr. Riane Eisler, author of *The Chalice and the Blade* and *The Real Wealth of Nations*, guides us to recognize our role in societal evolution and preserving life on Earth.
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Our linear ‘take, make, waste’ economic system has pushed Earth’s planetary boundaries. This film explores how a circular economy can tackle global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, demonstrating that solutions are available to turn things around.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, develops and promotes the circular economy – a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.
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Our linear "take, make, waste" economic system has pushed Earth's planetary boundaries. This film explores how a circular economy offers immediate solutions to global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, demonstrating that by doing things differently, we can still turn things around.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy – a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.
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This episode of The Circular Economy Show explores what it means to be a circular economist, their importance, and future challenges. We feature Vojtech Vosecky, "The Circular Economist" and author of The Loop newsletter, who has shaped the circular economy through innovation, business, and policy. Learn about his journey, current momentum, key challenges, and advice for getting involved.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Big Food Redesign Challenge demonstrates how circular economy principles can create a food system where nature thrives. This episode features Chloe Stewart (Nibs etc) and Katie Carson (Tetra Pak), exploring the role of upcycled ingredients, startup challenges, and the importance of collaboration to foster innovation and scale nature-positive food.
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Business leaders grapple with shifting regulations, rising expectations, and the complexities of sustainable business. The 3BL video series, in partnership with TriplePundit, serves as a crucial guide to navigating these challenges and understanding future trends.
Each episode cuts through the noise, addressing leaders' pressing questions—from regulatory complexities to rapidly evolving sustainability trends. We deliver unfiltered truths and fresh perspectives on what truly shapes the future of responsible business.
This episode features Trenton Allen, Managing Director and CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors. Connect with us: LinkedIn. © 2025 | 3BL Media/Client | All Rights Reserved
This podcast explores how powerful storytelling can shift mindsets and inspire action towards a circular economy. Hear from Poppy Mason-Watts (WaterBear) and Alex Cramwinckel (Heineken) on why storytelling is crucial for circular champions, how brands can implement it, and its role in internal organizational transformation.
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This episode challenges food industry leaders, from startups to corporations, to embrace a new vision for a diverse, resilient, and prosperous food system. Featuring insights from Nestlé's Rob Cameron and Gabanna Foodworks' Sean Patrick, it explores how diversifying ingredients, fostering corporate-startup collaboration, creating nutritious food concepts, and applying circular design can transform the sector and meet environmental targets.
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This episode challenges food industry leaders, regardless of company size, to embrace a new vision for a diverse, resilient, and prosperous food system. Featuring insights from Rob Cameron (Nestlé) and Sean Patrick (Gabanna Foodworks), we explore leadership's critical role in shaping the future of food today.
Discover how diversifying ingredients, fostering collaboration between corporations and startups, and working effectively with farmers can drive innovation. We also examine new processing technologies, the creation of nutritious food concepts, and how circular design helps meet environmental targets.
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This Circular Economy Show episode explores marketing circular propositions. Guests Jonathan Hall (Kantar) and Amanda Gandolfo (Swapfiets) discuss connecting with consumers and driving demand. Learn practical strategies to overcome challenges like the value-action gap and greenwashing, focusing on consumer benefits, convenience, and real-world examples such as Swapfiets' bike subscription model. It highlights how shifting societal values reshape buying habits.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. For deeper insights, read 'The marketing playbook for a circular economy' and subscribe to the Circular Economy Show. Explore their work and connect online via their YouTube channel, Instagram, LinkedIn, or website.
This episode explores the potential of circular business models in fashion via rental and resale. Host Emma Elobeid, joined by Andrew Rough (ACS) and Ryan Atkins (SuperCycle), discusses economic opportunities, brand profitability, meeting customer demands, and the role of new technology in simplifying circularity and ensuring adaptability.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes the circular economy: a system eliminating waste, circulating materials, and regenerating nature. For more insights, subscribe to YouTube, visit ellenmacarthurfoundation.org, and follow on Instagram and LinkedIn.
This episode of the Circular Economy Show features Seb and Ke Wang from the World Resources Institute, who discuss the circular economy's critical role in the shift to renewable energy. They explore its economic drivers, competitive advantages, and real-world applications.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy by design: eliminating waste, circulating materials, and regenerating nature. Subscribe to their YouTube channel for more content. Find additional information and follow them on social media via their website, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Circular design for food empowers brands to create a nature-positive, climate-friendly system by rethinking ingredients and production. This approach, championed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, defines a circular economy. It eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.
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The Big Food Redesign Challenge demonstrates the possibility of designing a food system where nature thrives. A new film from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explores this journey and the future of food. The Foundation, an international charity, champions a circular economy model that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature.
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A circular food economy redesigns systems to allow nature to thrive. By rethinking ingredients and production, food brands and supermarkets can design food that benefits people, nature, and climate.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy. This design-driven approach eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.
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A circular food economy redesigns systems to benefit nature, people, and climate. Food brands and supermarkets can drive this by rethinking ingredients and production.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes a circular economy. This design-driven approach eliminates waste and pollution, circulates materials, and regenerates nature.
For more insights, subscribe to the [Ellen MacArthur Foundation YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAC2otE5_agzHZPnk3mE5w?sub_confirmation=1). Learn more at their [website](https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org) and follow them on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/EllenMacArthurFoundation), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ellenmacarthurfoundation), [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/circulareconomy), and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ellen-macarthur-foundation/).
The food industry significantly contributes to biodiversity loss and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, food can be designed to allow nature to thrive.
Circular design for food rethinks ingredients and production, empowering brands and supermarkets to create a system that benefits nature and climate. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions this circular economy concept—eliminating waste, circulating materials, and regenerating nature.
For more information on circular design and the circular economy, visit the Ellen MacArthur Foundation website or subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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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.
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, "The Thinking Game" is now available to watch for free. For those interested in hosting a screening for a classroom, community, or workplace, visit: rocofilms.com/films/the-thinking-game/.






















