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Posted by: "Anna Harris" an...@shsh.co.uk annaharr11

Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:11 pm

HI All,

Have you come accross Jeremy Rifkin and The Third Industrial Revolution?
His proposal to use every building as an energy power plant, connected on a
smart grid. In February 2011 members of the European Parliament endorsed
this policy<http://www.ueapme.com/IMG/pdf/EU_PARLIAMENT_DECLARATION_ON_ENERGY_AND_THE_ECONOMY_final.pdf>.
Here is a video of him talking in
Barcelona<http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/jeremy-rifkin-on-clean-energy/?_r=0>,
and at UNIDO<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wJYuMTKG8bc>conference
2012 addressing possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, and he
was invited by the mayor of
Rome<http://www.generatinginsights.com/whitepaper/microgrids-in-rome>to
develop the system there.

Rivkin also wrote The Empathic
Civilisation<http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate/animate/rsa-animate-the-empathic-civilisation>

The book The Third Industrial
Revolution<http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/>covers the
profound implications for human relationships in education,
governance etc.

I would like to link up with any interested in these proposals

Anna

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Jamie Saunders <
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> *Subject:* A global wrap-up of the latest in circular economy thinking****
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> A global wrap-up of the latest in circular economy thinking****
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> *In London last week the Ellen MacArthur Foundation hosted a full day of
> circular economy insight with the leading global experts in this space. It
> brought together two of the Foundation's flagship programmes, the Circular
> Economy 100 Summit and the launch of the Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowships. **
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> *Here are some of the outcomes of June 19th 2013.*****
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> *****Wendy Schmidt, President of the Schmidt Family Foundation<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-u/>
> *which is delivering the Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowships<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-o/>in partnership with the Ellen
> MacArthur Foundation<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-b/>
> ,* *opened the evening lecture:****
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> *‘This year’s first class of Schmidt-MacArthur fellows, embedded with
> their mentors in our partner universities in the UK, Europe, the US and
> India, represent the first wave of what we intend will be a systematic
> movement of young people, thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and future
> business leaders who will go into our higher educational institutions and
> come out from there into the industries and institutions that shape our
> world.'*****
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> The Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship programme offers international
> postgraduate fellowships on circular economy innovation for design,
> engineering and business students and their academic mentors. Find out
> more here.<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-n/>
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> Circular Economy 100 Annual Summit****
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> The Summit took place during the day on the 19th June and was a closed
> session for CE100 members and close industry contacts of the Foundation.**
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> *Carlos Tavares*, COO of Founding Partner Renault<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-p/>was the first speaker to open the day. Tavares shared the history and
> experience<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-x/>of his company in moving towards a circular economy, placing Renault's
> activity within the context of both global price fluctuations and a wider
> strategy to offer mobility rather than car ownership alone. The
> presentation closed with the announcement that Renault would be renewing
> their partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation for a further three
> years, in order to build on the progress towards circularity.****
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> In a session on New Access Models, *Ruben van Doorn* of Turntoo<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-m/>provided the viewpoint of a company built on the concept of access over
> ownership, whilst *Rachel Botsman* rounded out the session with further
> case studies and surprising statistics on the mega-trend of collaborative
> consumption<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-c/>.
> Design was another focus on the agenda, with *Jeremy Faludi* of Autodesk
> suggesting some practical considerations for designing not only products
> but the systems in which they fit. An academic perspective came from *Professor
> Peter Childs* of Imperial College London, who commented that by thinking
> about design through the circular economy framework, he had “discovered
> something more powerful than traditional life cycle tools".****
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> *Design the right things - don't just optimise the wrong things.*****
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> Professor Michael Braungart, Founder and Scientific Director of EPEA****
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> Ecovative's *Eben Bayer* arrived just in time from the United States to
> share the successes and challenges that he found in establishing his mycelium
> packaging company<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-f/>Ecovative. Further analysis of materials design and choice in a circular
> economy was provided by *Professor James Clark*, who highlighted a range
> of opportunities in which resource flows could be valorised.****
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> *Below (from left to right): Dominic Waughray (World Economic Forum),
> Professor Walter R. Stahel (Product LIfe Institute), Rachel Botsman
> (Author, Collaborative Consumption) & Ruben Van Doorn (Turntoo)*****
> **[image: Content image alt text]**The Schmidt-MacArthur Lecture****
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> Following the close of the first ever Circular Economy 100 Summit, the
> Schmidt-MacArthur Fellows, Mentors and the rest of the day’s attendees were
> joined by a further 200 people for the *Schmidt-MacArthur Lecture* – the
> Summer School’s apex of discussion and activity around the circular
> economy. *Wendy Schmidt*, *President of the Schmidt Family Foundation*,
> gave the opening address recalling the development of the collaboration
> with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, after which she handed over to her
> husband, *Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt*. Eric touched on a
> broad range of topics throughout his talk, with the central fulcrum of his
> argument being how innovation and the internet can support and enable
> re-organisation of energy, resources & business. ****
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> *Listen to a podcast of Eric Schmidt’s keynote speech, with introduction
> from Foundation CEO Jamie Butterworth and information on the Fellowships
> from Wendy Schmidt. Listen now.<http://ellenmacarthurfoundation.createsend4.com/t/y-l-tygjlk-skyirgit-z/>
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> Thought-leader Panel Discussion****
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> The evening culminated in a lively panel debate between six experts and
> thought-leaders, all of whom had also contributed throughout the day.
> McKinsey & Company's *Jeremy Oppenheim *made a robust economic case for a
> circular economy, which was complimented by impassioned responses from *William
> McDonough and Michael Braungart,* authors of the hugely influential
> best-seller Cradle to Cradle. The views of both these speakers highlighted
> the need for defining clear business values, whilst pointing out paradoxes
> in traditional ‘do less’ efforts employed by many companies and governments
> around the world. *Walter Stahel*, Founder and Director of the Product
> Life Institute and member of the Club of Rome, added vast knowledge of the
> performance economy in a segment that combined case examples with the
> discussion of broader economic change, such as shifting taxation away from
> labour. Biomimicry pioneer *Janine Benyus *added another angle to the
> panel focusing on what system and product design can learn from biology,
> specifically with regards to additive manufacturing; ‘growing’ products
> rather than extracting them from another material.****
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> *Ellen MacArthur* reflected on the panel discussion and the rest of the
> day in her closing remarks, which focused on the process of learning that
> she underwent in setting up and developing the Foundation, and the
> continued importance of learning and collaboration in expanding our
> combined ‘mapping’ of a circular economy.****
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> Below (from left to right): Professor Walter R. Stahel (product Life
> Institute) & Professor Dr Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle)****
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> attended for making it such a successful event in the transition to a
> circular economy*****
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