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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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ALGES is improving living conditions of women wounded in the El Salvador civil war through climate-resilient farming. El Salvador...
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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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Ice is vital for Alaskan ecosystems and communities. Plus, it’s fun to play with! Fresh Eyes on Ice uses citizen...
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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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Join the wildest egg hunt on Earth, count penguins, chicks and eggs and help Oxford researchers understand the lives of...
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Two Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
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Imagine the scene: you’re in the Russian Arctic and, suddenly you spot a tall, blonde woman descending from the sky...
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The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
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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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Beetime connects socially engaged art with natural beekeeping practices to bring together community, scientists and artists in their southern Spanish...
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The Source farms in harmony with the land, its flora and fauna, and its local community. In the Saint...
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Closed-loop, regenerative, urban agriculture: Good Neighbor Gardens is farming the city and feeding San Diego one garden at a time....
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Justdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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Nature is the new gold! Save your local forest and earn money with this new stock exchange for biodiversity. ...
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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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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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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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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 museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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Instead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
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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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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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A new meeting place is weaving a culture of cycling into the fabric of everyday life in Tunisia – with women cyclists...
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More and more people are ditching the supermarket in their quest for seasonal local goods. La Ruche qui dit Oui...
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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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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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The fashion industry is well known for its negative impact on the environment. Clothes make up a significant portion of...
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Dúlabio has designed a unique blend of seaweed species that are native to Ireland to dramatically reduce methane and other...
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Indigenous communities are already experiencing how climate change disrupts traditional ways of life that have been preserved over thousands of...
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The simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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“Without a healthy ocean, life as we know it would not exist.” For Farah Obaidullah of Women4Oceans, gender equality and...
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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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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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A coral reef restoration project run by a community of women on a tiny island off Kenya’s south-east coast is...
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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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Dog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
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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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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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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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The Incredible Edible Network started out in the small market town of Tomorden in the North of England. It was...
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Big in Japan: the global goals can seem too big to make a difference. That’s where the 2030 SDGs Game comes...
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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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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In the extreme north of India, the harsh mountain area of the Trans-Himalaya is experiencing acute water shortages; the desert's...
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Every year in Senegal thousands of tonnes of fruit are thrown away due to the lack of initiatives for processing...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
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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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Inspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
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With 26 billion trees currently burned down annually and only 15 billion replanted, we need millions of trees to combat the effects of...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Universe Awareness (UNAWE) believes that learning about our cosmos and space can help expand children’s worldview and...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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Submitted by you: Did you know that bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world? After harvesting...
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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission...
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By now we all know that indestructible plastic is bad for the planet. A massive amount ends up in our oceans...
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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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Within a hidden mad professor's lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg, one team is on a mission to feed a rapidly expanding population,...
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... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
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Robots and humans are working together to save water, enhance agriculture and make wine lovers very, very happy. An estimated...
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Seattle-based mobile app Stuffstr may help multinational retailers transfer to the circular economy. Clothing giants such as H&M and The North...
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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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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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Filming movies wastes huge amounts of energy. That's why the Academy Award-nominated Hive Lighting wants to help Hollywood turn the lights of...
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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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? 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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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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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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Over twenty years ago, a little known carpet tile company called Interface embarked on its plush path to sustainability. Its destination...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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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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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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Submitted by you: Travel around India and you’ll spot Nishant Bioenergy’s earth stoves in restaurants, hostels, kitchens, corporate canteens, religious places, dhaba (roadside...
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While the panda is officially no no longer endangered, there are fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in China – the...
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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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Bakey's have come up with an edible alternative to the 120 billion pieces of disposable plastic knives, forks and spoons...
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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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Can an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
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With rice being a major staple of diet in Japan, agriculture is a massively important industry. Japanese IT firm OPTiM and Saga University...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current...
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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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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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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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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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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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Planned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Now you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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One of the main challenges of the current century is to transform our consumption-oriented economic system into an eco-friendly and...
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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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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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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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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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Built on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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More commonly known for being eaten with rice after going through the traditional Japanese methods of blanching, cooling, salting, there...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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Nearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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In March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
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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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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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Untouched for centuries, Morocco’s deserts are catapulting the country into solar-energy superstardom. Once a backdrop for epic productions such as Lawrence...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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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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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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Hoary old cynics are hard to turn into eco-warriors. The Wilderness Awareness School, a non-profit environmental education organisation founded in...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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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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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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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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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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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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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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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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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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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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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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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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Head to Zooniverse and you’ll find ordinary people helping scientists to identify galaxies, explore historical records, or in the case...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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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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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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