Calling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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Natural sounds are disappearing under human-made noise, but earth.fm believes deep listening, through wildlife recordings, can change people’s relationships with...
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Innovating within an institution that is over one hundred years old is no easy feat, but that’s what Innovation Partnerships...
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We recently dived head-first into the world of music visionary and climate activist Brian Eno. After an inspiring conversation about...
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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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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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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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A simple sticker can keep fruit fresh for up to two weeks longer, using natural plant compounds and creating a...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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Two Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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Beetime connects socially engaged art with natural beekeeping practices to bring together community, scientists and artists in their southern Spanish...
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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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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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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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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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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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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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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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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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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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“If we don’t know what we’re saying to each other how can we move forward on a shared path?” Samata...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Being in the spotlight is a chance to get green, seen. The glamorous dresses and stylish suits that grace...
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Fashion Minority Report is a call for measurable change in the offices of fashion brands across the UK. What...
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“Museums that involve citizens are the future.” Jordi Costa is the writer, filmmaker and cultural critic behind the exhibitions at Barcelona’s CCCB, one...
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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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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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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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The global sextech industry is huge and growing. If there was ever a time to want more pleasure, it’s during lockdown,...
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A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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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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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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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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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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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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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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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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A startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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It's been a rough and challenging year, but the good news is that societal problems can be solved by humanity itself...
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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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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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What links Arcade Fire, a marching band in rural Haiti, goats and the circular economy? Régine Chassagne, from the...
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“The vision for Blavity is a world in which all Black people are happy.” Aaron Samuels’ life is a tale...
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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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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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“The purpose of 'A Human Atlas' is really simple – to inspire a new generation to co-author their lives, not in...
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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To seduce the public with culture, some saucy Spanish poets are prostituting themselves for money, but not in the way...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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"Hope is sprouting in the margins, from the grassroots.” – Rhiannon White The stage is set… but not as you know...
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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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Beauty is being created in black and white just a few metres away from the Syrian border in an area...
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Backflipping for freedom in Gaza, the Camps Breakerz Crew aren’t letting rubble-strewn pavements stop them dancing in the street. Meet the...
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"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
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The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
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In the deprived slum locations in West India, Prabhat Education Foundation is replacing despair with hope. The community-based organisation helps children with special...
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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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We've all heard the expression 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Yet we’re all guilty of doing it. And you...
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This month, Atlas of the Future has been swotting up, dedicating ourselves to spotting and showcasing the most inspiring education projects around the world. So...
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David Price wants us to be curious in today's digitally connected world: to learn from hactivists, bloggers, citizen journalists,...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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Stephanie Benedetto has repurposed fabric in her blood. At the end of the 19th century, her great grandfather started...
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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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When Morocco went into lock-down during the Covid19 crisis, the first thing that Amal Center did was set up a...
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“I have a deep desire to make Africa a better place.” From its volcanoes to its tropical rainforests, Cameroon is...
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Fashion can put the Earth first. Two academic activists prove how – in a bold new plan. The clothes we...
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Are you helping to build a fair fashion sector?Are you a fashion-lover working on ways to reimagine how we produce what we...
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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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"It has become crystal clear that food is one of the most valuable things in our lives." Abby Rose was named...
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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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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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If ever there was a time to get innovative, it's now. While Tuesday saw World Health Day give respect and support to...
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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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Just ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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Something wicked this way comes, but then a lab comes along to challenge it... Known to many as the 'Godfather...
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It’s time to work together. It’s time to think creatively. And it’s time to be useful. That’s why we’re collating...
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Maff Potts is the founder of Camerados – a growing social movement in the UK that has a simple, but powerful approach: "looking out...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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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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Clearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
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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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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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