Showing posts with label Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Show all posts

Monday, 26 August 2024

Ellen MacArthur and her solo voyage around the world

 Linked to our unit on ocean plastics and consumption.


Description:

What do you learn when you sail around the world on your own? 
When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what's left for tomorrow. She proposes a bold new way to see the world's economic systems: not as linear, but as circular, where everything comes around.

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Gerrard Street - Headphones as a service

Thanks to a student Izzy for locating this good example of the circular economy in action.

Gerrard Street is a Dutch company that make headphones.

The headphones are of high quality, and once purchased can be repaired for free for a lifetime, with modular part replaced free of charge rather than leading to the need for a new purchase with most headphones once a small issue develops.

The company is used as a case study on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation website.