The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

We speak with one of the authors behind the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new paper ‘Cities in the circular economy: an initial exploration’

What do you want to be when you grow up? How can we answer, when our centuries-old education system prepares us for a job market that existed 50 years ago?

£1 million of funding is currently available from Zero Waste Scotland for manufacturing businesses aiming to harness and innovate towards realising the significant economic and environmental benefits associated with a circular economy.

The circular economy is on the rise. The European Union has embraced the concept and corporations around the world are exploring circular business models. But progression is painfully slow. Still, each year, 6.5 million people are dying from air pollution, a third of all food is wasted and 8 million

MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen on why the circular economy isn’t just about materials but could offer a path away from populism and towards prosperity.

Kate Raworth makes good use of the insights from contemporary science – the science of systems – to help our understanding of economics ‘get with the programme’

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will be hosting the inaugural Circular Economy Symposium on 25th– 26th April 2017 in New Delhi.

Can this project be replicated to breathe life into some of the other 25,000 miles of poor coastal desert around the world?

The information technology revolution has only just begun, yet it is removing jobs faster than its creating them in a global economy which has faltering growth, social tensions, unemployment and resource issues.  What are the consequences, and what needs to be done? In this episode we hear from Nikki Silvestri, a social entrepreneur