Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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Projects
Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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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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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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The Sports Bra Project provides sports bras to those who don’t have access to them, lifting barriers to sports participation....
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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 line dividing humans and other animals is often exaggerated. Meet the lawyers trying to redraw it. “I became...
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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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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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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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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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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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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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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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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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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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To seduce the public with culture, some saucy Spanish poets are prostituting themselves for money, but not in the way...
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We've all heard the expression 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Yet we’re all guilty of doing it. And you...
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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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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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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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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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Just ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that irate grandmas are not to be messed with. Watch out, then, for the...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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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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“I spend the bulk of my waking life thinking about the news industry and audience engagement. And there’s a particularly...
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"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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"We are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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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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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of 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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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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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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Koullouna is a box of goodness made in Lebanon that supports the local ecosystem. Through a subscription, it aims to connect...
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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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? 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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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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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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When a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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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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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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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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Hart Island lies to the east of New York City and is the largest tax-funded mass cemetery in the world....
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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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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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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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Where’s gender in the climate change negotiations? The Gender Climate Tracker app and platform answers this question with the latest...
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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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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 is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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Building on the trust and popularity of museums, this NY-based climate museum bakes action into everything it does, inspiring 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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"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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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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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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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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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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Just as the Atlas mission is to 'Democratise the Future', littleBits is on a mission to 'Democratise Hardware' by empowering everyone –...
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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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If you’ve ever felt like you can’t face watching the news then you’re not alone. Research shows that people often...
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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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Approximately three-quarters of Americans are in debt, in most cases due to the high cost of healthcare and education. Nearly...
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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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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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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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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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