In just a few short years YACAP has grown from a handful of individuals to hundreds of members across the...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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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 Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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The 2021 IPCC report is 3,949 pages. Too busy to read it? This card game makes climate education fun. ...
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What if you could join a global governance body built on fairness and empathy and informed by scientists and Indigenous...
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“Art need not be fiddling while the world burns. Art can link with science and the full power of human...
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A suburb in San José granted citizenship to pollinators and declared itself a sanctuary for bees. Welcome to Curridabat. ...
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“Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.” — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilson,...
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Meet the forensic scientists tackling the illegal timber trade. Scouring the world of wood in search of clues, solving crimes,...
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Ever felt inspired to take action after seeing a beautiful piece of art? An international non-profit based in Hawaii is...
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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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“What if we welcomed all animals, plants and things into our Parliament? What would the argument of the cod, algae...
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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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“We have this big vision that we would like every child to own a hundred books by the age of...
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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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Australian start-up Flow is bringing beekeeping to the masses with their Flow Hive that reduces stress both for bees and...
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Australian not for profit SoilCQuest helps farmers draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil—where it will stay...
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The Bambara groundnut has been farmed for centuries, but if you don’t live in sub-Saharan Africa it is nearly impossible...
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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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This fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the ultimate competition to save the...
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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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Wearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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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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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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This smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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Finger lickin’ crispy cell-based chicken is going straight from bioreactor to table in the world’s first lab-grown meat restaurant. ...
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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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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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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Learn languages with native speakers in conversation sessions that offer hope to refugees who have lost everything. Looking to...
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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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Traditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is the...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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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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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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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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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that irate grandmas are not to be messed with. Watch out, then, for the...
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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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Welcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
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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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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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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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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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In Uganda, Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga are the major sources of quality protein, in the form of various species...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Millions of amputees worldwide live with the loss of a limb, especially in developing countries that don’t often have access...
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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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Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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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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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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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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Submitted by you: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project has been dedicated to the protection of wild and captive dolphins worldwide since...
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A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
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To shine a spotlight on the lack of data, on 14 September 2016, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...
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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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They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
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When a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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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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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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Sunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
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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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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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