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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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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Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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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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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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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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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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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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Architects in Beirut are using Miyawaki reforestation to return a polluted river to people and nature and “turn EGO into...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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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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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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The non-profit Social Skate gets social change rolling on skateboards for vulnerable children and young adults. In the 1980s,...
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“I ended up taking surfing as my coping skill because every time I am in the water, I take the...
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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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“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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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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“Art need not be fiddling while the world burns. Art can link with science and the full power of human...
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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 suburb in San José granted citizenship to pollinators and declared itself a sanctuary for bees. Welcome to Curridabat. ...
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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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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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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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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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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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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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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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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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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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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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The Knepp Castle estate has bravely brought ecological history back to the present and is now an example of a...
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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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In Catalonia, thousands of people are committed to nature tracking. Their data collected over the years has enabled analysis of...
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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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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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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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Beetime connects socially engaged art with natural beekeeping practices to bring together community, scientists and artists in their southern Spanish...
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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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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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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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“What if we welcomed all animals, plants and things into our Parliament? What would the argument of the cod, algae...
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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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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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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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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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Duckweed grows incredibly fast, can produce eight times more protein per hectare than soy and may be a big help...
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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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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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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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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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Nope, we’re not at church – but this anonymous congregation are here to worship all things creative. Working to a...
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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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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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Being in the spotlight is a chance to get green, seen. The glamorous dresses and stylish suits that grace...
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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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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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Bold quotes, high end looks, and a top made out of radicchio. This is what the face of slow fashion...
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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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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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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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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 Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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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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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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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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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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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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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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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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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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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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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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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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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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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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A museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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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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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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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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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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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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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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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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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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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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The current face of architecture is not an accurate reflection of what our cities look like. One woman in Detroit...
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Aware that Detroiters of African descent have never lacked creativity or entrepreneurial zeal, one Detroiter wants to provide the one...
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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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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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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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As Wales entered its first lockdown, Mymuna Soleman set up a virtual space for difficult conversations. She just never expected...
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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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"Hope is sprouting in the margins, from the grassroots.” – Rhiannon White The stage is set… but not as you know...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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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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Do you segregate your wet and dry waste? Most people think it’s extra work, but if you can convert it...
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In the deprived slum locations in West India, Prabhat Education Foundation is replacing despair with hope. The community-based organisation helps children with special...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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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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New Roads School in California's Santa Monica is an independent school that gives away almost half of its income in 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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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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Is this the clothes shop of the future? Imagine walking into a space on your local high street, selecting a...
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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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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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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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“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 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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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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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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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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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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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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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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“Without a healthy ocean, life as we know it would not exist.” For Farah Obaidullah of Women4Oceans, gender equality and...
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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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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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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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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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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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Everyone needs to feel valued and needed. That’s why psychologist Dr Derenda Schubert created a powerful intergenerational mini-village in Portland, Oregon,...
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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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In long-running British soap opera Eastenders, the main square is home to what is known as the 'Bench of Tears',...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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A unique media project in Valparaíso, Chile, is challenging stereotypes in an often ageist world of social media, podcasts, blogs and...
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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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Which came first: the chicken or this eggscellent idea? Ok, that was rhetorical. It's the chicken, obviously. Now for a real question:...
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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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Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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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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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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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 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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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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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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"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
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When you think about climate change, you’re likely to experience a range of emotions. Some of us naturally feel inspired...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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“Hip Hop Caucus represents the streets, it represents those who have a message to tell and who won’t be quiet,...
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“With a collective effort and more awareness we can work against gangsterism. The way I see it, culture is a...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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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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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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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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Science and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s 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 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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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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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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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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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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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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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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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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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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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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A festival in a coastline settlement in Lagos is challenging the notion of art in the white cube. Iwaya Community Art...
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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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Submitted by: Skateistan Universe Awareness (UNAWE) believes that learning about our cosmos and space can help expand children’s worldview and...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Khrousar Thmey ('New Family' in Cambodian) is a school for children who are deaf or blind living in...
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Street HeArt Africa brings life to walls in underprivileged communities. "We use our art as a way to connect people and...
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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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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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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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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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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: Nigerian architect 'wole Olabanji believes that everyone deserves a nice home. However, most people in the African...
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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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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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The next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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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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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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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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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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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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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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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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We have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
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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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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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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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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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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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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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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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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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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 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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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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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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Today some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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Agender definition: Without a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois); moving between genders or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); third gender or...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term cyberspace. He also forewarned of brain microchips in the year...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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Imagine a virtual world overlaid on top of the real one, with full physical interaction between you and the digital...
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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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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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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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