For those working to battle climate breakdown, the complexity, uncertainty and scale of its challenges can make any single solution...
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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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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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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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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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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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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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As NASA's mission passed Pluto last week, I undertook my own flyby of London to meet up with Atlas of the Future co-founder...
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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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Project CeCe is the search engine for sustainable fashion. The cat has long been out of the shopping bag —...
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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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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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A suburb in San José granted citizenship to pollinators and declared itself a sanctuary for bees. Welcome to Curridabat. ...
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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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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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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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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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Ever felt inspired to take action after seeing a beautiful piece of art? An international non-profit based in Hawaii is...
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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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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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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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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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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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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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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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A counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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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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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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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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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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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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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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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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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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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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Welcome to Groundhog May. In most parts of the world May is a time of joy, when everything seems possible;...
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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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Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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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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Join us as we journey around Catalonia exploring six projects with social impact – from the city of Barcelona to...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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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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“If you want to do something about climate change, change the politics. Use the system to fight the system.” Imagine...
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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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“Want to be a revolutionary? Rip up paving slabs, plant gardens & cover your roof in solar panels." In South...
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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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Have you been naughty or nice this year? Good news: you can redeem yourselves! As the bumpy, transformative, but never-boring...
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"Not everybody wants to work for money on a platter. Sometimes we do things just because they matter." An economist,...
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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 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
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If you’re responsible for creating the “biggest solar powered computer in world” and it’s capable of delivering three fundamental services...
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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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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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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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As storytellers we're interested in how transformative change happens. This week we hosted the first Salon with our Project Breakthrough partners Volans. The...
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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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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now – which means there is no better time...
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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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While the Internet gets excited about the fact that the new polymer five pound note plays vinyl, we're celebrating five projects...
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The Cairo-born futurist, technologist and award-winning science fiction author on Elon Musk, how his best ideas come on hikes and why...
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This year might have had its dark times, but there are many reasons to get excited. From the Faroe Islands to Patagonia,...
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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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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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Have you spotted cyborg vultures catching illegal fly tippers; heard of a cool way tech is bringing clean water to the...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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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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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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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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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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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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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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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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Last week, Arpa-E Director Dr Ellen Williams announced that her department had developed an energy storage device to rival Elon Musk’s...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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Since the Atlas launch just a few months ago we've seen some of the most forward-thinking and insightful minds on the planet walk through our...
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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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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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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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The Devon dairy farmer’s daughter – who left the Pacific to come home and start a little revolution with Village Farm – on the...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if we could end extreme poverty, hunger, disease, climate change and fight inequality and injustice by...
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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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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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