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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation welcomes you to The Circular Economy Show, a podcast about a new way to design, make, and use things, and how we can build an economy that's fit for the 21st century.

The Circular Economy Show Podcast Ellen MacArthur Foundation

    • Business
    • 4.7 • 29 Ratings

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation welcomes you to The Circular Economy Show, a podcast about a new way to design, make, and use things, and how we can build an economy that's fit for the 21st century.

    How the circular economy helps us stay within planetary boundaries

    How the circular economy helps us stay within planetary boundaries

    In our new three-part series, we’re sharing three of the most popular articles written by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s editorial team. In today’s episode, we explore how a circular economy can keep us stay within the nine planetary boundaries set out by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, such as climate change, novel entities (otherwise known as pollution) and ocean acidification.

    • 20 min
    Designing for the customer: Fashion lessons from Zimbabwe with Rudo Nondo

    Designing for the customer: Fashion lessons from Zimbabwe with Rudo Nondo

    In this episode, we hear from Rudo Nondo, a creative design practitioner and the acting Managing Director of Fashion Revolution. She tells us how her upbringing in Zimbabwe shaped her clothing philosophy.

    • 19 min
    Redesigning food systems for nature to thrive

    Redesigning food systems for nature to thrive

    Is there a better way to produce our food? Today, we circle back to one episode of our award-nominated Redesigning Food series in this episode. We’ll rediscover what a circular economy for food would look like, meet the people working to make it happen, and we’ll look at how it can be scaled to feed a growing population.

    • 18 min
    Lily Cole & Ellen MacArthur: why we need optimism to shift mindsets

    Lily Cole & Ellen MacArthur: why we need optimism to shift mindsets

    How can optimism and creativity help us transition to a circular economy? In this episode model, actress and activist, Lily Cole joins Ellen MacArthur and Emma Chow to discuss her journey from fashion model to environmental activist.

    • 26 min
    Repairing our belongings: applying circular design

    Repairing our belongings: applying circular design

    What if we could design products to elongate their useful life? In this episode, we delve into the world of repair, shifting the focus from disposable products to ones that are designed to be repaired.

    • 15 min
    The power of biomaterials: 3 regenerative design solutions

    The power of biomaterials: 3 regenerative design solutions

    How do we shift today’s economic system to one that helps to regenerate nature? In this episode we’ll meet three companies developing materials that work in harmony with our environment, and learn how such innovations can be scaled.

    • 16 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
29 Ratings

29 Ratings

stevenschon ,

We all need to listen to this podcast

This is the best place to gain knowledge and intuition about what a circular economy means, as well as the steps we are taking, and need to take, to get there.

dmholcomb ,

Great Show

I listened to the episode about waste in the linear economy. The guests explain why this isn’t sustainable and why it’s so advantageous for society to move to a more circular economy.

I enjoyed listening a lot. I’d highly recommend this show.

If you are interested, please check out a podcast I host — “The Right Direction Podcast” from Compass Precision.

ADPlessis ,

What about being a citizen)

Good podcast, but terribly disappointed that Ellen refers to people as consumers with the right to choice and says there is not much more we can do to change the system except consume mindfully. I believe we can also use our vote, voice, March for change and exercise our rights as citizens and members of civil society to bring change and create a global circular economy!

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