What do you learn when you sail around the world on your own? When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what's left for tomorrow. She proposes a bold new way to see the world's economic systems: not as linear, but as circular, where everything comes around.

Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world

The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world

Sailing solo around the world, the realization dawns: Our economy, like a voyage, relies on finite resources, demanding a circular model.

Transitioning to a circular economy could decouple growth from resource constraints, replacing the linear model's wasteful legacy.

In a single lifetime, technology leaps from first flights to the internet, proving a circular economy's potential within our grasp.