Fashion just got nerdy – and all the better for it. Post Carbon Lab are opening up the possibilities that...
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How do we tackle climate change whilst maintaining a healthy economy? Just ask carbon. In the third of our three-part...
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Today carbon is considered a dirty word; consigned to dirt, dust, something that’s in the air, something that is dark. But it...
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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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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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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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Although running events can be a strain on the environment, there are initiatives that are tackling food waste at catered...
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Did you know that the planet’s topsoil is the world’s largest living entity? A handful of rich soil is...
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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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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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How do you inspire action on the climate emergency? Through spectacle, satire and humour, according to ClimActs. ClimActs co-founder...
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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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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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Ginkgo trees evolved before the dinosaurs, survived three mass extinctions, and one species is still living today. Citizen science is...
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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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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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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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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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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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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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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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The Caribbean Sharks Education Program uses empathy and social media to turn poachers into conservationists. “I spend about 50%...
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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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Located on Canada’s Pacific Coast, an alliance of First Nations is working to protect the ecosystems of an area that...
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"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers It's difficult to...
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If not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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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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Australian not for profit SoilCQuest helps farmers draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil—where it will stay...
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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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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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“I always tell kids the same thing: the future has not yet been written.” Javier Goyeneche believes that children are...
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Look down at your shirt. Have you ever considered where or how it got its colour? Unfortunately, dyeing is one...
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🔴 “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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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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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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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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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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Marmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
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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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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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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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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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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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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 is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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Instead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
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Qatar has an extreme climate, fragile ecosystems and a high dependence on non-renewable energy. But that's starting to change thanks...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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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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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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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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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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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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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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The problem of fast fashion is – by its nature – accelerating quickly. In the UK alone, people are purchasing five...
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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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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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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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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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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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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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Dúlabio has designed a unique blend of seaweed species that are native to Ireland to dramatically reduce methane and other...
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Today we are launching the call for our new content channel, #FashionFutures. We’re asking for your help to hear about the...
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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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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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"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
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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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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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The idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
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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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You can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
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For those working to battle climate breakdown, the complexity, uncertainty and scale of its challenges can make any single solution...
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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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Exciting rewilding projects are happening at vastly different scales all around the world – as more and more people make...
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Celebrated ocean conservationist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson knows that caring about the ocean doesn’t just mean thinking about marine ecosystems,...
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Cows are often the scape-goats (or scape-cows) for climate change; the methane-burping livestock animals have become confused with our management...
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“Want to be a revolutionary? Rip up paving slabs, plant gardens & cover your roof in solar panels." In South...
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"Why do an equality lineup now? Because we should have done it ages ago." It's 2019 and we've all had...
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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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Biodiversity is a hot topic at the moment, but what is it? Put simply, biodiversity helps regulate climate, air, soil...
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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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"As we struggle with climate catastrophe, what needs to be addressed is what we do down here." – Paul Hawken We must, we can...
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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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Climate change is probably the most urgent problem facing our species and the planet today. It even threatens the existence...
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Imagine if you could get a 'city' to agree to making the world more self-sufficient. A creative team of pioneers and...
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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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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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In an era of rising environmental awareness, cleantech has become the fastest-growing technology sector in the world. And sunny California loves...
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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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A microgreen-fingered hydroponic hero is proving that ‘zero km’ is possible – in London’s disused bomb shelters. With his groundbreaking subterranean...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” 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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In South London a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable power – while showing the true democratic involvement...
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Coneix deu ments brillants que estan canviant el món! Tenen en comú que han trobat solucions a reptes globals que semblava...
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When you find yourselves somewhere between Gotham City Police HQ and Blade Runner’s Leon’s Hotel chatting to a Westworld sexbot you...
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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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Part of the problem with the investment industry is that it has been very backward-looking. But there is a bunch...
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Fresh from editing videos for the Carbon Productivity event at London's RSA, last week we returned to UBS's London HQ to shoot Volans' Breakthrough...
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With 26 billion trees currently burned down annually and only 15 billion replanted, we need millions of trees to combat the effects of...
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Want to know what a green energy guru has in common with Ozzy Osbourne? This podcast. Sailing close to the...
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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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In episode 3 of their podcast, the Atlas Futurenauts (AKA top selling author and futurist Mark Stevenson and leading sustainability expert Ed Gillespie) interview...
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As pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andrè Borschberg took Solar Impulse around the world for its record-breaking journey, the world-leading manufacturer of...
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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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Patrick Thomas aims to make the world a better place with his "80-year startup". Covestro products are everywhere in modern life –...
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Given his job as a futurologist, a lot of fearful, liberally minded types have been asking Mark Stevenson what he thinks about...
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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: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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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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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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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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"Carbon is risky, it’s bad for the world. How can we continue to invest in something that’s increasingly dangerous, risky...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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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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On Sunday, Solar Impulse 2 became the first solar powered plane to cross the Pacific. After completing the latest leg and...
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One of the main challenges of the current century is to transform our consumption-oriented economic system into an eco-friendly and...
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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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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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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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The author and futurologist transports us from India to Germany through his top 5 Atlas projects – from teeny, tiny 3D printing to the Airbnb...
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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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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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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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The world’s first electrically powered car and passenger ferry, namely Ampere, started service in Norway earlier this year. Conventional ferries...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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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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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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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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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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