‘Creative’ and ‘factory’: two words not often seen together. It’s time they were. About a Worker describes itself as...
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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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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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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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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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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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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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Get ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
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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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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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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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Resonate unlocks leadership potential of women and girls in East Africa with a training programme dedicated to building self-confidence and leadership....
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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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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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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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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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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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We're living in one of the most memorable moments in history. Blavity is the powerful multi-platform, multimedia Black-owned and Black-community serving...
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What links Arcade Fire, a marching band in rural Haiti, goats and the circular economy? Régine Chassagne, from the...
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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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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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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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"Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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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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Pathways for Promise, an initiative within the Asian University for Women, is providing free education to talented women from among Bangladeshi garment...
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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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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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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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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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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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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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When Morocco went into lock-down during the Covid19 crisis, the first thing that Amal Center did was set up a...
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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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A simple action such as riding a bike can help rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their...
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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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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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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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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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Sex. It never gets old. Why, then, is the idea of older people having it so hard to think about?...
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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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Meet Basma and Jad, the Muppets addressing the devastating impacts of crisis and displacement on children. American educational children’s television...
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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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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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Colombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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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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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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"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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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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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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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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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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Word has it that Winston Churchill enjoyed playing card games like Gin Rummy and Mah Jong with his family before...
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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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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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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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"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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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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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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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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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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Unsecured bins create a death trap for wildlife. Keeping plastic and litter out of the environment and oceans is easier...
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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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Documentary filmmaker Stalin K Padma is convinced that the lack of diversity in India’s mainstream media results in large swathes...
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Creative resistance Circuito Rolezinho is a new way of thinking about the reality of being young, black and alive in...
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Submitted by you: Coming out of Zug, Switzerland (dubbed 'Crypto Valley'), ShapeShift’s goal is ‘to be the fastest, most private...
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Submitted by you: The Estonians have a long history of trying new things in digital, and blockchain is no exception....
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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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Now you are welcome to download a virtual van Gogh without having to pay an arm, a leg or an ear for...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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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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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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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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To shine a spotlight on the lack of data, on 14 September 2016, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...
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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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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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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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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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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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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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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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Please note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
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“Humans are optimised to walk very efficiently. However, people with disabilities often have reduced function of their muscles.” At Wyss...
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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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In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
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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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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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Home to more than 170,000 Palestinians, Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank. But an archaic Ottomon law allows government...
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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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Laki-Laki Peduli, translated as 'men that care', works to reshape common concepts of masculinity in Indonesia. Even in the country’s...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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