{"id":5570,"date":"2014-01-27T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2014-01-27T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:58:32","slug":"circular-update-from-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/01\/27\/circular-update-from-davos\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular update from Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.\u00a0 I\u2019m not there!\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even sure where it is.\u00a0 But the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is \u00a0\u2013 launching another report with McKinsey, and a new initiative: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/us7.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=bbd27f61161a220e88d7186d4&amp;id=49cbabbaec&amp;e=14513ed4d3\">Project Mainstream<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember when ESD experts were sniffy about the Foundation.\u00a0 You would find them muttering into their Pinot Grigios that it wasn\u2019t really about sustainability; that it didn\u2019t actually understand ESD; that it wasn\u2019t worth bothering with. Truth is, those who went hoping for a research grant or two got the bum\u2019s rush; one of the Foundation\u2019s many skills is sniffing out rent-seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you want to see how really badly the Foundation is now doing, have a look at this press conference with Ellen MacArthur, Ian Cheshire (CEO Kingfisher PLC) and Feike Sijbesma (CEO, Royal DSM). \u00a0It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/webcasts.weforum.org\/widget\/1\/davos2014?p=1&amp;pi=1&amp;a=52225\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Ellen\u2019s blog 'Investing in the circular economy' is also now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forumblog.org\/2014\/01\/investing-circular-economy\/\"><strong>available to read<\/strong><\/a> on the World Economic Forum website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.\u00a0 I\u2019m not there!\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even sure where it is.\u00a0 But the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is \u00a0\u2013 launching another report with McKinsey, and a new initiative: Project Mainstream. I can remember when ESD experts were sniffy about the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}