The London Interdisciplinary School is a really interesting new university in the UK, led by a group of academics, entrepreneurs...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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“Use whatever god-given talent that you’ve got and just do something.” Magid Magid, a Somali-British race and climate justice...
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RESOLVE is on a mission to tackle social issues through process-led design. What are the emotions that your city...
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Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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Innovating within an institution that is over one hundred years old is no easy feat, but that’s what Innovation Partnerships...
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Force of Nature responds to eco-anxiety through education programmes, consulting and campaigns, asking people to step up rather than shut...
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Need systems to change? It helps to have the law on your side. In our fight against the climate...
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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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Join the wildest egg hunt on Earth, count penguins, chicks and eggs and help Oxford researchers understand the lives of...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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Have you heard the one about the bull, the rabbit, and the policeman? And the one about the flawed dinosaur?...
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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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Sitting comfortably? For the 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability, wearing standard clothing can mean...
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The B-Lines project supports the small wild inhabitants of the British landscape by forging new pathways and regenerating an interconnected...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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Nope, we’re not at church – but this anonymous congregation are here to worship all things creative. Working to a...
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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Fashion Minority Report is a call for measurable change in the offices of fashion brands across the UK. What...
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Faber Futures is revolutionising colour with bacteria, using 500 times less water than traditional dyeing. Assemblage 002 is a reversible...
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How should I take care of my winter woollens? Who can finish knitting my cardigan? What’s the best way to...
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Justice, conservation, wilderness; soulful, ancestral, unconsumable – these are not words usually associated with the fashion industry. But The Lissome...
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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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A new generation needs a new generation of media. Enter GUAP: a media platform that has earned its description...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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Not to be confused with a building or wedding venue, Hackney Wick Town Hall is an event that opens up conversations....
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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Beauty is being created in black and white just a few metres away from the Syrian border in an area...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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Fashion just got nerdy – and all the better for it. Post Carbon Lab are opening up the possibilities that...
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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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Long-lasting, locally made, affordable classic designs: this isn’t just a beautiful idea, but the reality of Community Clothing. The...
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Is this the clothes shop of the future? Imagine walking into a space on your local high street, selecting a...
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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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The consumption of non-renewable resources for single use items and the amount of waste generated is profoundly unsustainable. That’s why London-based tech startup NotPla wants...
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For many of us, a hole in a much-loved jumper sees it drift to the back of the cupboard and...
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The rise of subscription services online has led to some revolutionary new circular business models, and – while cat litter...
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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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For aspiring chefs without a Caribbean friend on hand to reveal the secrets of the most authentic Creole cuisine or...
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Cooking for someone is quite possibly the oldest and most elemental expression of love, solidarity and caring. Community – or...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. Founded by ex-St John chef Dougie McMaster, the team at Silo brews its own booze,...
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Earth Logic is a simple yet transformative call to the fashion sector: to put earth first, pledging loyalty to the...
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Are you helping to build a fair fashion sector?Are you a fashion-lover working on ways to reimagine how we produce what we...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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Today the food systems must adapt quickly. Farmers, growers, food businesses, cafes and restaurants are being forced to simultaneously and...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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It was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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Thrift celebrates resourcefulness over wastefulness. Through art. Concerned with sustainability in the fields of art, design and fashion, the ongoing publishing and...
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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LitFilmFest wants to help kids save the day, write the future and appear on the giant cinema screen. The film festival is designed...
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"This is not just be a destination for people who want to shop in a socially impactful way – although...
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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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Ask anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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Glitter gets everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. A weekend at a festival can lead to weeks of picking the sparkly...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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Submitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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When it comes to climate change, a self-described "walking billboard for the glaciers" wants to prove that anyone can make a...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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Providing pure creativity in a digital world, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is more than a design festival with unbridled Fs. It's a...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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We have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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Everyone is guilty of buying stuff that they secretly know won’t last and will end up in a landfill, in...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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By now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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At first glance, Moley’s Robotic Kitchen looks like a gizmo from a futuristic film, a toy of excess, a super-expensive...
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Agender definition: Without a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois); moving between genders or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); third gender or...
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Jeff Mills has never allowed his vaunted status of techno legend diminish his hunger for pushing his art forwards. Few creatives...
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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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There isn’t a magic pill to cure the world’s diseases, and there isn’t a one size fits all solution for...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
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Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
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Brainwaves have always fascinated me. As a musician, the idea of understanding the brain though frequency is compelling. You can...
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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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Drones are being used to hunt down poachers in Namibia. Using US homeland security techniques, poachers are being tracked by...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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A South Korean robotic team has taken home $2 million prize money in an international competition to design semi-autonomous robots...
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"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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Until now we haven’t been very good at using the sun’s energy to power our homes. The average photovoltaic panel...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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The bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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