If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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Innovating within an institution that is over one hundred years old is no easy feat, but that’s what Innovation Partnerships...
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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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The Artivist Network brings together arts activists and facilitators to imagine a better future. Here at Atlas of the...
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In just a few short years YACAP has grown from a handful of individuals to hundreds of members across the...
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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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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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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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How do you inspire action on the climate emergency? Through spectacle, satire and humour, according to ClimActs. ClimActs co-founder...
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“The future we are trying to create is a future in which people are able to find the time to...
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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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Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica are coming together to influence international politics and advocate for their rights in the climate change...
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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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Project CeCe is the search engine for sustainable fashion. The cat has long been out of the shopping bag —...
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Feeling weird about being served by robot staff? What if your humanoid waiter was creating employment opportunities for flesh-and-bone workers...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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Brew your tea, stir some milk in. Make some toast and butter it. Sip, eat, wash, dry. Now, can you...
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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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What if you could join a global governance body built on fairness and empathy and informed by scientists and Indigenous...
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Have you heard the one about the bull, the rabbit, and the policeman? And the one about the flawed dinosaur?...
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This initiative is making Europe a wilder place by bringing back the variety of life into the landscape and helping...
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Barcelona’s street vendors launched a fashion brand that’s all about “doing things right.” Six years ago, Barcelona’s street sellers...
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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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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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“We’re the street plants that’ll resist even when you suffocate them with concrete.” There’s a neighbourhood in Colombia that uses...
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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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The Caribbean Sharks Education Program uses empathy and social media to turn poachers into conservationists. “I spend about 50%...
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Sitting comfortably? For the 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability, wearing standard clothing can mean...
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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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The ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
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In Catalonia, thousands of people are committed to nature tracking. Their data collected over the years has enabled analysis of...
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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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The line dividing humans and other animals is often exaggerated. Meet the lawyers trying to redraw it. “I became...
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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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It’s 2002 and in a large square just streets away from the Colosseum, market stalls line up to sell their...
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Occupy space, occupy history: can you hear the land you’re walking on? In Fitzroy, a historical inner suburb of Melbourne,...
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One of the most exciting legacy project’s from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is the Museu do Amanhã, or Museum...
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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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It’s bold, colourful, and sometimes illegal; it makes big statements and spreads joy; it redefines our streets even when it...
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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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LA Green Grounds makes the world more edible one garden at a time, and in doing so turns urban food...
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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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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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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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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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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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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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Farah Liz Pallaro knows from experience that a career in fashion and wellbeing often don’t go hand-in-hand. That’s why she...
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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Fashion Minority Report is a call for measurable change in the offices of fashion brands across the UK. What...
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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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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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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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A new generation needs a new generation of media. Enter GUAP: a media platform that has earned its description...
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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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Despite artisan know-how stretching back to ancient times, independent clothes makers around the Mediterranean now struggle against powerful global brands...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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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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This fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the ultimate competition to save the...
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Is there anything sweeter than a library made from ice cream buckets? Yes. One whose facade spells out "books are...
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What if we could rethink, reimagine, remake the world of fashion? Inequality, injustice, pollutants and waste – the fast...
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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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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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No irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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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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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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Cycling Without Age is a movement – literally – that’s creating a sense of freedom, joy and happiness in an...
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Not to be confused with a building or wedding venue, Hackney Wick Town Hall is an event that opens up conversations....
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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To seduce the public with culture, some saucy Spanish poets are prostituting themselves for money, but not in the way...
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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Two women are changing the narrative on Yemen by creating groundbreaking and authentic local artistic content in an extreme environment....
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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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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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Beauty is being created in black and white just a few metres away from the Syrian border in an area...
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Backflipping for freedom in Gaza, the Camps Breakerz Crew aren’t letting rubble-strewn pavements stop them dancing in the street. Meet the...
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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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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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"When dreams die, they do not make much noise. When hopes are crushed, the signs are soundless." Sheroes Hangout is...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Storytelling is the most powerful tool that we can give to kids." Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cineastas del Futuro...
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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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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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Argentine celebrity chef Narda Lepes has long championed a plant-based diet at Narda Comedor in Buenos Aires and now she’s...
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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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When Guzel Sanzhapova, the founder and owner of Cocco Bello Bow Ties, decided to start producing creamy honey with berries...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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Whether by sharing or by hiding their sexual orientation throughout their lives, LGBT older people often find themselves socially isolated...
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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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“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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Download the app, lend your eyes to solve tasks big and small, and help blind and partially sighted people lead...
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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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“Muhra in Arabic means 'foal', but also new beginnings. It represents what we do here." In a discreet five-story building...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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As our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
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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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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families 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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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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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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The streets of Portugal are being turned into vibrant canvases as ‘wrinkle wall writers’ get to grips with spray cans;...
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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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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Every night across the world’s former murder capital, young boys and girls study the four elements of hip-hop to transform...
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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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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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It was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
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"We are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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“We vote not only for ourselves, but for 'all sons and daughters' and every layer and intersection of identity. We...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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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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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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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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"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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Global sportswear giant Nike has unveiled a hijab designed for female Muslim athletes... and the press went wild. After sparking a flurry of...
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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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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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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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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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In a part of the world that is modernising as quickly in some regions as others are being destroyed, it...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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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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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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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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Submitted by you: When someone you love is sick, you want them to have the best possible caregiver... You. Healthcast empowers...
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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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One company that is helping to transform China’s image from manufacturer to innovator is DJI. The Shenzhen-based drone maker now...
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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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As the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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