Friday 21 March 2014

Further Ellen MacArthur Research




Ellen MacArthur has now founded a trust that is all to do with creating a 'circular economy', a more sustainable approach to living, where one day we can hope to become independent of fossil fuels, and reduce landfill use, by changing the way we design, using Cradle to Cradle approaches with regards to the materials and components of products.


She used to save up her lunch money, and once it got up to a pound she would drop it in a box and cross off a square in a chart she had made. 





Her boat became her world. In her record breaking circumnavigation of the world, she later describes it as having control over everything except from the weather. 

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