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The Circular Economy
To build a competitive and resilient future, the fashion industry must embrace circular business models. A new film from The Fashion ReModel, an Ellen MacArthur Foundation project, highlights real-world examples from Arc’teryx, H&M Group, and Tapestry (Coach), demonstrating how to make money without making more clothes.
These models—including rental, resale, repair, and remaking—offer economic resilience by reducing exposure to supply chain disruptions and price volatility. Businesses can embed these strategies into their core operations. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity promoting a circular economy, encourages action. Explore insights: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/the-fashion-remodel/insights
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This episode, part of a mini-series on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's "How not to fail" report, examines why circular business models often fail. Discover how to avoid three strategic misalignment pitfalls by integrating business operations, customer needs, and product requirements for scalable success.
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Explore why circular business models fail to scale in this discussion, drawing from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's report, "How not to fail: Avoiding 10 common pitfalls when scaling circular business models." Learn practical steps to avoid common mistakes and enable transformative scale. Key topics include circular opportunities, the necessity of a scaling plan, and aligning models with existing business strategy.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an international charity promoting a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Access the full report here. Find more insights and subscribe to their work at www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org and YouTube.
Political and economic shocks present opportunities for market transformation. In this episode, Jonquil Hackenberg (Ellen MacArthur Foundation) and Lindsay Hooper (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) discuss how businesses can collaborate to drive system-wide change.
They explore catalysing market interventions, designing out competitive disadvantages, and building pre-competitive coalitions. Harnessing business and private sector power is crucial for real transformation towards a circular economy, which eliminates waste and regenerates nature.
Learn more about commercial collaboration: Commercial Collaboration. Read CISL’s report: Competing in the Age of Disruption. Find more at ellenmacarthurfoundation.org.
Scaling the circular economy demands more circular products and services, yet companies face common barriers. Commercial collaboration on non-competitive issues offers a powerful solution. This episode highlights how partnerships, like the HolyGrail initiative, have advanced plastic waste sorting through joint R&D, growing from 31 to 176 participants and demonstrating the power of cross-value chain cooperation.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity promoting a circular economy, champions such efforts. Learn more about this business-led partnership: HolyGrail 2.0, and explore the full commercial collaboration collection. Find more insights and subscribe at ellenmacarthurfoundation.org or YouTube.
This podcast episode quickly reviews a busy summer for the circular economy. Topics include the EU's Extended Producer Responsibility for textiles, new retail business models, advocacy to scrap UK VAT on repairs, the urgency of critical minerals news, and updates from Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Geneva.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes the circular economy – a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.
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During Climate Week NYC, a podcast features Danielle Holly of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation discussing the circular economy's shift from theory to practice in North America. The episode covers progress in the US, Canada, and Mexico, highlighting its non-partisan nature, supply chain resilience, critical minerals, and business opportunities for leaders.
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Waste and pollution are design outcomes, meaning we can design them out. This podcast episode features Joe Iles from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, discussing what circular design truly entails. Explore how it differs from traditional approaches, its creative crossovers, and how designers can shape a better system.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes a circular economy that eliminates waste, circulates products, and regenerates nature through design. Learn more about circular design here and the Foundation's work here.
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This episode of the Circular Economy Show addresses how businesses can market circular propositions in a rapidly changing world. Join Pippa as she speaks with Jonathan Hall (Kantar’s Sustainable Transformation Practice) and Amanda Gandolfo (Swapfiets) about the challenges and opportunities.
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Amid rising emissions and the rollout of renewable energy, climate mitigation is a central priority for China. This episode features Lei Chen from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s China team, who discusses China's potential to accelerate global circular transitions. The circular economy offers China a "triple win" for achieving its climate ambitions, a concept explored in the article: ‘The circular economy: a ‘triple play’ solution for achieving China’s climate objectives’.
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The latest episode of the Circular Economy Show explores how businesses can market circular propositions in a changing world. Host Pippa speaks with Jonathan Hall, Managing Partner at Kantar’s Sustainable Transformation Practice, and Amanda Gandolfo, Head of Brands at bike subscription service Swapfiets, to tackle these marketing challenges and opportunities.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, develops and promotes the circular economy concept. This model, driven by design, aims to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature. Discover more about their work at www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org.
Discover how to make circular behaviors irresistible in this episode of the Circular Economy Show. Guests Georgie Rose (Selfridges) and Simon Davies (Visa) share insights from their behavioral lab, bridging the gap between customer intent and action. Watch the full discussion on this podcast.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an international charity that develops and promotes the circular economy concept: a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.
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Explore how a circular economy can future-proof European cities and create investment opportunities. In the third "Circling Back" episode of the Circular Economy Show, Lou Waldegrave speaks with Julia Okatz (Systemiq) and Joss Bleriot (Ellen MacArthur Foundation). They discuss how circular strategies integrate nature into urban environments, building resilience against extreme weather while generating significant economic, environmental, and social benefits. This approach offers a powerful, nature-positive way forward for cities facing climate stress.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy—a design-driven model eliminating waste and regenerating nature. Discover more about circular cities and the Foundation's work on their website. Subscribe to their YouTube channel and follow them on Instagram and LinkedIn to support their mission.
Marketers have historically influenced the linear economy. This episode of the Circular Economy Show explores how their skills can unlock opportunities within the circular economy.
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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Marketers, traditionally shaping consumer views for the linear economy, can now harness their skills to unlock opportunities within the circular economy.
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The circular economy is essential for business resilience and competitiveness. This episode features Lindsay Hooper (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and Joe Murphy (Ellen MacArthur Foundation), discussing how the end of ESG hype could shift corporate circular economy approaches. They explore its commercial case and what's needed for market-level shifts. Learn more at cisl.cam.ac.uk. This conversation is from episode 170: ‘What should businesses do to scale a circular economy?’
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes the circular economy: eliminating waste and pollution, circulating products, and regenerating nature. Subscribe to their YouTube channel for insights, and find more at ellenmacarthurfoundation.org. Follow them on Instagram and LinkedIn.
In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, Georgie Rose (Selfridges) and Simon Davies (VISA) discuss how their behavioral lab makes circular behaviors irresistible, bridging the gap between customer intent and action. Watch the full discussion.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an international charity promoting a circular economy that eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.
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Explore the power of storytelling to inspire action towards a circular economy. This episode features Poppy Mason-Watts (WaterBear) and Alex Cramwinckel (Heineken) discussing how to shift mindsets and promote positive change.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy – a design-driven approach that eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.
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This episode explores the critical minerals challenge and how circular economy strategies can secure their supply. Essential for renewable energy products like EV batteries and wind turbines, these minerals face increasing demand. As e-waste grows and early renewable tech reaches end-of-life, a circular approach offers a vital opportunity to build a sustainable system. Find out more about critical minerals.
Join us in Episode 189 of our "Circling Back" series. We revisit insights from Ke Wang (World Resources Institute) on the circular economy's role in the energy transition, driven by economics and competitiveness. This conversation originally featured in Episode 174: Material security in a circular economy.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy model, which eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature. Learn more about our work.
The circular economy is a powerful tool against the climate crisis, though its benefits are often unrecognized by current carbon accounting frameworks like the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. In this episode, João Murilo Silva Merico from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explains how circular practices—such as reuse, remanufacturing, and sharing models—are not adequately rewarded for their emissions reductions.
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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/.






















