Ellen sailing around the world
Sailing around the world sunderland...
Ellen's story
In 2005, Ellen MacArthur became the fastest solo sailor to sail around the world.
Ellen sailing around the world
Five years later, she set up the Foundation in her name to accelerate the transition to a circular economycircular economy.
After circling the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she returned with new insights 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.
Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe
Spending 71 days alone at sea, confronted by the awesome power and dazzling beauty of nature, Ellen began to ponder the fragility of the systems we’ve built.
Her boat was her world and her survival was entirely dependent on the limited food, fuel, and other supplies she’d brought with her. She realised that our global economy is no different – it relies completely on the finite resources we extract, use and th