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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Forwarded Message -----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ellen MacArthur Foundation <info@ellenmacarthurfoundation.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> "dharao4@yahoo.co.uk" <dharao4@yahoo.co.uk> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 10:36<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> 18 months of fast-pace progress<BR></FONT></DIV><WBR>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>Since the launch of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, through our work in education, catalysing businesses and through the media we estimate that we have touche</B></SPAN><B>d over 100 million </B><B>people with the idea of a positive, circular economy.</B><B>¹</B></div><IMG alt="Inline Image" align=left src="http://i1.createsend2.com/ei/y/C2/4BB/22A/csimport/Photo17.165045.JPG" width=545 height=362> <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=toc_item_2 rel=nofollow></A>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">When we launched the Foundation, we also launched the idea of the <B>“circular economy”</B> as a framework for re-thinking the economy. 18 months on, momentum is moving fast as cited by The Times,<A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/o/" rel=nofollow target=_blank> BBC World</A>, <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/b/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Wired Magazine</A>, <A style="FONT-FAMILY:
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target=_blank>Chatham House</A> and The EU Commission amongst others as a coherent model for de-coupling growth from finite resources.</div><A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=toc_item_4 rel=nofollow></A>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Ellen and the Foundation have <B>presented in person </B>to in excess of 20,000 people, at events including: The CBI Annual General Meeting, World Economic Forum in Davos, Lille World Forum, French Social and Economic Council (CESE), <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/c/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Learning Without Frontiers</A>, Royal Society of Arts Opening Minds, The 30 Club of Great Britain, and the Google annual conference. <B>This equates to one presentation a week for the last 75 weeks.</B></div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The Foundation has also featured in the media - from a live broadcast from Davos on BBC World News through to in-depth articles in broadsheet print media and online articles:</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><I>“Dame Ellen MacArthur is not so much a breath of fresh air in the world of sustainable business as a force 10 gale. What sets the 35-year-old apart from mainstream sustainability professionals is that she is not shy about speaking her mind and does not feel bound by normal business conventions. But that's the point. MacArthur is not someone who does things by halves, as demonstrated by fulfilling the dream she had when she was just four years old to sail around the world.</I>” </div>
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<H2 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #dddddd 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px; LINE-HEIGHT: 36px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 4px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Working to inspire the next generation </H2>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The Foundation’s education programme has from the start been about embedding long-term change in the system. As such this has involved an extensive curriculum development programme in conjunction with subject associations, teacher groups before moving into a country wide dissemination phase. By September 2013, the Foundation will have provided CPD/educator support to over 2,200 secondary school teachers. This equates to one teacher in 50% of all UK secondary schools.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The last 18 months have seen a wide range of curriculum resources tested and piloted with the best teachers in each targeted subject area (STEM, D&T and EPQ). As of September this year this will move into a full-scale, UK-wide dissemination phase. Dissemination will be supported by a team of Development Field Officers who were trained by the Foundation in Cowes.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">External evaluation by Bath University illustates that 94% of students found the challenge stimulating and well presented, 97% agreed the skills acquired will be useful in their future careers and 95% left with a positive view of the Foundation. Phase 2 ReDesign internships scored 100% in all areas. (Project ReDesign, 800 A Level students, 5x UK locations).</div><A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=toc_item_6 rel=nofollow></A>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The Foundation has also spent the last 18 months working to support a number of businesses in embedding the idea of the circular economy in their core propositions. The circular economy provides a unique opportunity for product and business model innovation and design.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The Foundation has hosted a series of events to help motivate and promote knowledge transfer across the partners including Catalyst Innovation Workshops and convening CEO dinners for executive stakeholders. Most recently the Foundation has hosted a workshop for the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, the Technology Strategy Board and DEFRA to enable the partners to feed into the Government’s sustainability strategy.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Through our work in Higher Education and the PG Cert course we have also allowed further academic and research support. The Foundation has also set up a Knowledge Transfer Network and two working groups on ‘polymers’ and ‘innovative new business models’ to support innovation.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">This work has culminated in<A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/q/" rel=nofollow target=_blank> a report published by the Foundation </A>with McKinsey & Co. looking at how companies can best take advantage of their slice of an estimated USD 630 billion opportunity for medium complexity manufactured goods in the EU economy. The report specifically provides deep-dive analysis for several signature products to build an economy-wide picture. The report was launched to an oversubscribed private CEO breakfast meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2013 the
Foundation, together with its partners, will report back regarding circular economy progress, post report-launch, to the world’s business press.</div><A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" name=toc_item_8 rel=nofollow></A>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The Foundation has <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/a/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>strong links with France</A> and Ellen regularly visits the country to take part in high-profile conferences and seminars (Unesco, Economic and Social Council for pre-Rio+20 event at the initiative of the Ministry of Ecology, World Forum Lille…). Our education team also keeps close ties with other European countries through its participation in an EU funded Leonardo programme around cradle to cradle with partners in The Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Greece, and Northern
Ireland. Foundation links with Holland are also extensive and growing - there are notably two study tours booked this spring.</div>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; MARGIN: 20px 0px 16px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Ken Webster's book <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/f/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Sense and Sustainability</A> is in translation in Dutch, Greek and Russian. Ken has run lectures in Russian universities in St Petersburg, given a <A style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00759a; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend2.com/t/y/l/ykcijk/qojullut/z/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>TEDx talk in Tallinn</A> (Estonia), and is about to run a number of workshops in French business
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