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We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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Welcome to World 27, where people tell the stories of their garments instead of giving them a price-tag. In...
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Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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Can music make a connection through people’s busy everyday lives and change the narrative on environmental issues? That is the...
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Natural sounds are disappearing under human-made noise, but earth.fm believes deep listening, through wildlife recordings, can change people’s relationships with...
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Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Atlas of the Future and Fashion Fictions are looking for digital storytellers to create a simple game based on an...
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Bestselling supertaster and food educator Bee Wilson knows a thing or two about healthy and sustainable eating. Author of six...
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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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Marina Testino is an award-winning ARTivist who works at the intersection of fashion and advocacy. It’s well known that the...
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Did you know that the planet’s topsoil is the world’s largest living entity? A handful of rich soil is...
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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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Artist collective Basurama makes creative use of waste in order to re-think our relationship with unsustainable ways of living. ...
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Rebecca Morris grew up in Menorca and remembers the joy that she felt going on adventures in the wilds of...
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“You cannot respect something without loving it, and you cannot love something you do not know” Jon Kareaga is a...
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Climate justice youth activist Marina Pérez Pascual has a wide experience in activist movements, such as Fridays for Future, Extinction...
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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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Climate justice youth activist Shakila Islam has an impressive CV. She is Vice-Chair of the Protiki Jubo Sangshad (Bangladesh Model...
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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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“We need to be able to imagine a world where we value compassion and community and nature over consumption and...
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Welcome to World 54, where the production of new textiles has been severely restricted, leading to the development of a...
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Solar Sister is bringing solar lighting to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Women are disproportionately impacted by...
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Welcome to the Mushroom World, an ecologically minded generation of thinkers who adopted mushrooms as their non-human spiritual guides. Once...
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“Women’s bodies and lands are a field of battle and resistance.” From street marches to directive boards, ecofeminist thinker and...
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Calling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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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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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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This initiative is making Europe a wilder place by bringing back the variety of life into the landscape and helping...
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A simple sticker can keep fruit fresh for up to two weeks longer, using natural plant compounds and creating a...
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“The Consumer Story is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, and the Citizen Story is emerging.” Advertisement disruptor...
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Who better than the Book Doula to give the world the ultimate reading list for Fixing the Future Festival, our...
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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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Businesses too can be the change. In 2010, three engineers met and started what can only be described as...
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Plant a seed, build a kite, and connect with the land at Aurora de Las Sierras. Analaura Antúnez and...
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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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Darling it's better Down where it's wetter Without fishing nets Over the past 10 years, humans have produced more...
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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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Some sixty volunteers from the urban Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (uBMS) have been tracking lepidoptera in 27 parks and gardens around...
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If the endangered European pond turtle still survives in Catalonia it is thanks to the Emys Foundation (Fundació Emys), which...
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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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Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland,...
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Reversing the extinction crisis is perhaps the most important challenge of our time, and Rewilding Argentina is responding with a strength...
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The Knepp Castle estate has bravely brought ecological history back to the present and is now an example of a...
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The ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
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Ecocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
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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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Photographer, journalist and graphic designer Callie Broaddus felt moved to create Reserva: the Youth Land Trust by her professional and...
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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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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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The Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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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 not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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Eixarcolant is propelling us towards a future in which eating native “weeds” and cultivating local varieties of vegetables and forgotten...
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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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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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Cycloponics breathes new life into France’s underground car parks where they farm organic mushrooms, endives and microgreens right under the...
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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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Copenhagen is home to Europe’s largest vertical farm, Nordic Harvest, that uses renewable energy and applies robotic technology in innovative...
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Duckweed grows incredibly fast, can produce eight times more protein per hectare than soy and may be a big help...
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In Catalonia, the Associació Obrador Xisqueta creates awareness of a protected native breed while also promoting ethical fashion. Petite,...
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Safi Organic’s decentralized production of organic fertiliser is helping hundreds of farmers to improve crop yields while also teaching the...
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Welcome to the Farming month. Six years of researching and publishing the people and projects out there working hard to...
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Solar Foods is one of those mind-blowing future-food incubator stories that can save any dinner conversation - and perhaps even...
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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton of...
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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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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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Mexican startup Griyum produces edible cricket flour to help combat malnutrition, provide better economic opportunities to farmers and help the...
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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core of...
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“I always tell kids the same thing: the future has not yet been written.” Javier Goyeneche believes that children are...
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How can we buy clothes that look great, fit well – and don’t harm the planet? Ecoalf has found one answer:...
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Being in the spotlight is a chance to get green, seen. The glamorous dresses and stylish suits that grace...
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Look down at your shirt. Have you ever considered where or how it got its colour? Unfortunately, dyeing is one...
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The algae-based bio-company Algaeing not only produces dyes, their patented technology allows for the creation of coloured fibers, changing the...
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Blackbirds are the inspiration for SauColors' vibrant blue dye made from waste berries – a possible sustainable alternative for colouring denim....
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TômTex uses shellfish waste to create a sustainable alternative to harmful leather practices. Designer Uyen Tran may have developed TômTex...
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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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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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Bold quotes, high end looks, and a top made out of radicchio. This is what the face of slow fashion...
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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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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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“Fashion is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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An ethical women's enterprise is creating vegan soaps that use plastic-free packaging made from a natural waste material that is...
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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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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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Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has developed her own eco-friendly packaging as a substitute for plastic. Part of the problem causing the...
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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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The beautiful game is embracing its green side. In the ultimate upcycle, a global architecture studio is using airplane bodies to...
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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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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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Meet the Icelandic designer turning animal skin and bones into food packaging to get us talking. And it is. ...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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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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Two Mexicans have created an eco-friendly leather made from cactus to help save the environment. They want to reduce animal...
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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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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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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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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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In the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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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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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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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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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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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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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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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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Qatar has an extreme climate, fragile ecosystems and a high dependence on non-renewable energy. But that's starting to change thanks...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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A startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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MyOmani hopes to inspire the residents and citizens of Oman by promoting sustainable projects and effective practices for a better...
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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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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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By working directly with Bedouin communities, a wild approach to sustainable tourism in Jordan is creating a real impact on...
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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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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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One of Detroit’s most blighted inner city blocks is being transformed into an eco-village, led by a powerhouse resident with...
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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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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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"Are killer death robots from the future already among us?" That's the sort of question you can expect from the...
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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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Everything in nature is connected. That's why Berkley's Center for Ecoliteracy is cultivating education for sustainable living – encouraging sustainable practices and food...
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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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Online exchange and interaction between young people around the world is now a part of our daily lives, but how...
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Founded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
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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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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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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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A picture paints a thousand words – but when it comes to fashion, there’s a lot more to say. Texture is...
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This Berlin-based circular economy startup converts your old clothes into something brand new – and even more stylish. Every...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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When does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
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The problem of fast fashion is – by its nature – accelerating quickly. In the UK alone, people are purchasing five...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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Upcycling is a key part of a sustainable fashion future: but Denver-based Canned Goods like to go further. As well...
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Spinnova claims to have created the most sustainable fibre in the world – no small claim! Taking inspiration from the...
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Every second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
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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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It is estimated that 600 tons of plastic are disposed off in Uganda daily. Kampala city alone accounts for the...
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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Being an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
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Can mushrooms be the platform we build the future on? We’ve used mushrooms as food for thousands of years, but...
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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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Who says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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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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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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Shoes might not grow on trees – but this one grows itself. The Shoe That Grows has a clever design that...
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What if buying and selling clothes was illegal? How about a world where synthetic dyes were banned? Or doing laundry...
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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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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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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 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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Repair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
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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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Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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A pioneer in Argentina’s anti-straw movement, Juani Gerardi, founder of Bioconexión, was way ahead of state authorities in banishing unfantastic...
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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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Do you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
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While Colombian roaster Devoción has sourced specialty arabica beans directly from independent farmers and paid more than the fair-trade asking...
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With 51,330 species spread across Colombia, the world’s second-most biodiverse country creates an immense pantry for chef Leo Espinosa and...
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Mirazur, a Michelin three-star restaurant located in Menton on France’s Côte d’Azur, has long applied a holistic biodynamic agriculture philosophy...
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Driven by a firm commitment to create greener cities and a more sustainable future, Urban Green Club designs, manufactures and...
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Toni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
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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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When Guzel Sanzhapova, the founder and owner of Cocco Bello Bow Ties, decided to start producing creamy honey with berries...
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Ivory Coast and Ghana produce about 60% of the world’s cocoa, but in the small state of Liberia, farmers cannot...
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"The world needs 70 percent more food right now and there are two ways to address that: deforest to create...
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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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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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“I have a deep desire to make Africa a better place.” From its volcanoes to its tropical rainforests, Cameroon is...
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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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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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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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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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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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"It has become crystal clear that food is one of the most valuable things in our lives." Abby Rose was named...
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"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
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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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“There's an Eskimo on a mass of ice, a Bedouin in the desert and a Polynesian at sea. All three of...
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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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"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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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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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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Get ready to enter a surreal Noah's Ark of seeds, because deep inside a mountain on a remote island in...
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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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Plastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
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Some say the word ‘Bages’ comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. This probably isn’t true, but wine has...
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The use of forest biomass to generate heat energy is huge in Europe: trunk, bark, branches, needles leaves and roots...
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Decades ago, a man bought an old stone mill to feed his family with traditional cereals. One day, his daughter...
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Now your baby can look like an eco-friendly sumo wrestler, but, more importantly, provide an alternative to disposable diapers. 17...
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Meet the new magical FutureHero of super-gardening... the black soldier fly. A group of University of Tokyo students have developed...
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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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The idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
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A major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
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Is it possible to bring divided communities together through food? Soil Association believes it is. And it’s bringing bunting, garden...
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Dutch investigative journalist Teun van de Keuken was shocked when he discovered that much of the world’s chocolate production has...
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You can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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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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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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“Food is a central part of the Filipino life. For the people of an agricultural country such as the Philippines...
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"We love Patagonia – it’s one of the wildest places left on Earth, where there’s a chance to protect ecosystems...
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Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fungi, are...
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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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“It’s like watching YouTube: you start on one thing and then an hour later you’re watching something completely different.” Distinguished...
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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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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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"Ants are an example of the little surprises gastronomy can give us." Amazonian fruits, canastra cheese, fermented manioc, ants; these...
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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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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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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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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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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity...
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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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We live in worrying times. Sometimes it’s hard to see the bright side. Eco-anxiety is on the rise. But a...
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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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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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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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The Olive Network is an online platform that aims to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on...
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"We are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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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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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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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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Shipping a container from China to South Africa costs the same amount as transporting it from South Africa to Malawi....
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A simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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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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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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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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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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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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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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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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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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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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"These sneakers were designed with silk sourced from the Brazilian producer Hermès uses." So ran the Vogue headline in an article...
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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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The numbers look great: 100,000 landmines destroyed, 22 million square metres of land returned to local communities and over 900,000...
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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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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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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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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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In 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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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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It’s predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans. Not content to sit back...
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Innovative outdoor brand Houdini Sportswear is creating sportswear so pure that you can eat it. Based in Sweden, with a passion...
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Keeping up with the latest fashion can be an expensive business. Constantly buying and throwing away clothes is also really...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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Can wool change lives? It can in Buenos Aires, where members of the Villa 31 cooperative turn it into colourful...
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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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Eco-warrior and outspoken founder of the world’s first green energy company, Ecotricity, Dale Vince is on a mission to green up...
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Oatly is milk from oats grown in Sweden. But it’s not just a tasty and healthy alternative to cow's milk,...
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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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When you buy local you are ensuring that your favourite shops, artisans and farmers can continue to do what they...
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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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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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Although farming still seems like an un-cool career option to many young people, Mmabatho Morudi wants to change the face of agriculture: "It’s...
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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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Atlas of the Future has partnered with Red Bull Amaphiko to share each other's stories. The global platform enables, connects and inspires social...
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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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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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A vegan mayo CEO wants to change the world by making the right thing easy and sexy: "The thing that, if...
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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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... 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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What if your business didn’t have to buy any lamps or lights and could just pay for the light you...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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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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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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Submitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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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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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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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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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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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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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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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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Dubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of the...
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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 sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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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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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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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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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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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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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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Mechanical engineer and Star Trek fan Anjan Contractor fascinated the world when he demonstrated a 3D printer that could print pizza back...
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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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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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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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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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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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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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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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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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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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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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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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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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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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Demand for fisheries has been growing at 6-8% a year. However, the global production of fishmeal has been steady at...
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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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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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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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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Agroforestry is the growing of trees and agricultural and/or horticultural crops on the same piece of land. Research in the...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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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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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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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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