The UN’s Centre of Excellence for SIDS’ office on Aruba actively seeks collaboration to promote ways to become more sustainable. In the month of April The Americas Sustainable Development Foundation together with the University of Aruba organized a workshop with MBDC’s CEO, Ken Alston, the creators of a successful framework Cradle to Cradle design to foster Circular Economy. In the guest blog below Ken Alston shares his view on the visit to the island and ways to move forward.