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Joanna Bingham, the founding CEO of Footprints Africa, is focussed on using the circular economy to support sustainable, scalable and inclusive approaches to the development of local African economies.
Joanna is also a founding partner of the CE360 Alliance, and leads the Ghana chapter for the African Circular Economy Network. She studied at Bradford University, the first degree-level circular economy course, supported by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Through Footprints Africa, Joanna runs a 6-month B-Corp programme to support SMEs who are positive about improving their environmental and social impact. Having worked in the investment industry for 9yrs, Joanna says “she is schooled in critical analysis and scepticism and is passionate about embedding social purpose in everyday activity.”
We talk about how the circular economy has huge potential to uplift people from poverty and to create meaning, how there are two ways of engaging with the circular economy – out of necessity, and to innovate – and how Footprints Africa’s B Corp programme supports entrepreneurs.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- Save our Soil online conference 24-26 Feb 2021 https://www.save-our-soil.org/
- Circular Conversations – Catherine and Peter contribute to the conversation on how the circular economy can create social value https://www.circularconversations.com/expert-series/how-can-the-circular-economy-create-social-value
- Joanna on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-bingham-b9062723/
- African Circular Economy Network https://www.acen.africa/
- Alexandre Lemille https://www.alexandrelemille.com/
- Fooprints Africa https://www.footprintsafrica.co/
- CE360 Alliance https://ce360-alliance.com/
- B Corp https://bcorporation.net/
- The Circular Economy case study report for Africa, and accompanying interactive map are available from https://www.footprintsafrica.co/
- African Circular Economy Network https://www.acen.africa/
About Joanna Bingham
Joanna is focussed on using the circular economy to support sustainable, scalable and inclusive approaches to development of local African economies. Joanna is the founding CEO of Footprints Africa, founding partner of the CE360 Alliance, and leads the Ghana chapter for the African CE Network.
She studied at Bradford University, the first degree-level circular economy course, supported by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Through Footprints Africa, Joanna runs a 6 month B-Corp programme to support SMEs who are positive about improving their environmental and social impact. Having worked in the investment industry for 9yrs, Joanna says “she is schooled in critical analysis and scepticism and is passionate about embedding social purpose in everyday activity.”
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