“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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From scratch to scrap, this circular restaurant is turning foodies into sustainability champions. But don’t ask them to serve seafood....
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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“It’s possible at a neighbourhood or city scale for us to completely overturn how change happens” Imandeep Kaur, CIVIC SQUARE....
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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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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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Justdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
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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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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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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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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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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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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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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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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Marmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
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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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A youth network in the Mediterranean is flowing with ideas of how to solve the world’s water challenges. They’re the...
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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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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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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in 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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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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Traditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is 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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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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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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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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The rise of subscription services online has led to some revolutionary new circular business models, and – while cat litter...
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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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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 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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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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“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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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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