Ellen MacArthur to quit sailing to spread the environmental sustainable message

1. Ellen MacArthur to quit sailing to spread the environmental sustainable message Dame Ellen MacArthur, one of the most popular sporting personalities in the country, made a surprising announcement on Derset Island Discs. The guest of the show, hosted by television news presenter Kirsty Young, says that she is giving up sailing in order to work on highlighting the plight of the environment. Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, was born on the 8th July 1976 and is from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is a solo long-distance yachtswoman motivational speaker and keynote speaker and is best known for breaking the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, on 7 February 2005, a feat which gained her international renown. Francis Joyon, the Frenchman who had held the record before MacArthur, recovered the record again in early 2008, besting MacArthur's record by nearly two weeks Ellen told Kirsty Young that while she was chilling out in Georgia after her round the world race, her attitude to life changed.
Down there for the first time I actually stopped,
she says.
I realised that on land we don't see things as precious any more. We take what we want. And it started to make me think. I was looking at plans for the future and it hit home to me.
This world, that I thought as a child was the biggest, most adventurous place you could imagine, is not that big. And there's an awful lot of us on it. And we're not managing the resources that we have as you would on a boat because we don't have the impression that these resources are limited.
Ellen, who has been very popular as a motivational keynote speaker will now be very much in demand spreading the word at environmental and sustainability conferences around the world. Speakers Corner are a leading speakers bureau sourcing after dinner speakers, business speakers, motivational speaker, keynote speakers and conference speakers for corporate events around the world.