The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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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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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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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 you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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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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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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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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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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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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ALGES is improving living conditions of women wounded in the El Salvador civil war through climate-resilient farming. El Salvador...
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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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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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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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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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To help preserve local heritage and provide formal and financial education, a rural community in Uganda is building its own...
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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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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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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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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 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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“Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.” — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilson,...
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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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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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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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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 Knepp Castle estate has bravely brought ecological history back to the present and is now an example of a...
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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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Ecocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
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Meet the forensic scientists tackling the illegal timber trade. Scouring the world of wood in search of clues, solving crimes,...
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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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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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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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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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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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Justdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
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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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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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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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GreenWaves’ vertical, regenerative underwater farming reduces ocean acidity, absorbs carbon, provides nutritious food and just might create a ton of...
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The Bambara groundnut has been farmed for centuries, but if you don’t live in sub-Saharan Africa it is nearly impossible...
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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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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core 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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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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Nope, we’re not at church – but this anonymous congregation are here to worship all things creative. Working to a...
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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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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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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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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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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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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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“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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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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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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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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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 new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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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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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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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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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Two Mexicans have created an eco-friendly leather made from cactus to help save the environment. They want to reduce animal...
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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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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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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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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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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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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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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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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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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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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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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 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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This smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
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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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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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Tunisian water resources are especially scarce. Thanks to a farmer’s daughter, water recycling can be a valid solution for water preservation. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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By working directly with Bedouin communities, a wild approach to sustainable tourism in Jordan is creating a real impact on...
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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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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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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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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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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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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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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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Everything in nature is connected. That's why Berkley's Center for Ecoliteracy is cultivating education for sustainable living – encouraging sustainable practices and food...
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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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In the state of Lousiana, the coastline abutting the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing at an alarming rate, due in...
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Online exchange and interaction between young people around the world is now a part of our daily lives, but how...
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Founded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
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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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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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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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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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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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WhyWeCraft creates immersive experiences for consumers, artisans and designers that take them closer to our cultural heritage of making. ...
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When does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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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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Upcycling is a key part of a sustainable fashion future: but Denver-based Canned Goods like to go further. As well...
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Spinnova claims to have created the most sustainable fibre in the world – no small claim! Taking inspiration from 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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Long-lasting, locally made, affordable classic designs: this isn’t just a beautiful idea, but the reality of Community Clothing. The...
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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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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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It is estimated that 600 tons of plastic are disposed off in Uganda daily. Kampala city alone accounts for 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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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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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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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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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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Shoes might not grow on trees – but this one grows itself. The Shoe That Grows has a clever design that...
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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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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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Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
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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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Indigenous communities are already experiencing how climate change disrupts traditional ways of life that have been preserved over thousands of...
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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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Ivory Coast and Ghana produce about 60% of the world’s cocoa, but in the small state of Liberia, farmers cannot...
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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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"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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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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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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“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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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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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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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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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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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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Some say the word ‘Bages’ comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. This probably isn’t true, but wine has...
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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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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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A major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
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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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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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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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“Food is a central part of the Filipino life. For the people of an agricultural country such as the Philippines...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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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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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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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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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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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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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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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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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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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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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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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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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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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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The Incredible Edible Network started out in the small market town of Tomorden in the North of England. It was...
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In Uganda, Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga are the major sources of quality protein, in the form of various species...
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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 small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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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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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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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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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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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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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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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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Ask anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
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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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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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Glitter gets everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. A weekend at a festival can lead to weeks of picking the sparkly...
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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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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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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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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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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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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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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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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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Oatly is milk from oats grown in Sweden. But it’s not just a tasty and healthy alternative to cow's milk,...
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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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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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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Creative resistance Circuito Rolezinho is a new way of thinking about the reality of being young, black and alive in...
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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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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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Inspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
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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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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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Submitted by you: Did you know that bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world? After harvesting...
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Atlas of the Future has partnered with Red Bull Amaphiko to share each other's stories. The global platform enables, connects and inspires social...
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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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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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... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
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Filming movies wastes huge amounts of energy. That's why the Academy Award-nominated Hive Lighting wants to help Hollywood turn the lights of...
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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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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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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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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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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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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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Submitted by you: Travel around India and you’ll spot Nishant Bioenergy’s earth stoves in restaurants, hostels, kitchens, corporate canteens, religious places, dhaba (roadside...
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Submitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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Can an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
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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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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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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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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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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 world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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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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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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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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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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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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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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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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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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Nearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
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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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People have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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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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Demand for fisheries has been growing at 6-8% a year. However, the global production of fishmeal has been steady at...
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Power Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
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Known for his genetic research, biochemistry scientist and Stanford University professor Patrick Brown has created a plant-based hamburger that ‘bleeds’ just...
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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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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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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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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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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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Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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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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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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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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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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