“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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Guest post by Jonathan Minchin Urban visionary Carolyn Steel has captured the public imagination by giving us food as a way...
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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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From culinary creativity and food fads to a dystopian future soil crisis, friends of the Atlas ask Dan Barber –...
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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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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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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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A simple sticker can keep fruit fresh for up to two weeks longer, using natural plant compounds and creating a...
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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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TômTex uses shellfish waste to create a sustainable alternative to harmful leather practices. Designer Uyen Tran may have developed TômTex...
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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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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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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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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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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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Do you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
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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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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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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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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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"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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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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Something special is happening inside an old school made from recycled salvage from a theatre company, decommissioned bio labs and...
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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...
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India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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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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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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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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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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Closed-loop, regenerative, urban agriculture: Good Neighbor Gardens is farming the city and feeding San Diego one garden at a time....
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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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“I always tell kids the same thing: the future has not yet been written.” Javier Goyeneche believes that children are...
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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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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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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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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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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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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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Meet the Icelandic designer turning animal skin and bones into food packaging to get us talking. And it is. ...
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These are the women who make us realise that the future is not as f* as you think... As...
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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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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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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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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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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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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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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 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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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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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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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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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Atlas of the Future is growing. Join the team! We have an exciting new job opportunity for a Barcelona-based digital media...
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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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“I am the Amazon. Please look after me.” Thought–provoking and emotional, the stirring sound of a 22-year-old afro-indigenous eco-activist from...
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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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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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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity...
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Are you joining us for Fixing the future at the CCCB in Barcelona on 7-8 June? As if 53 'FutureHero' speakers wasn't enough, we're offering eight screenings...
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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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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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An egg has become Instagram’s most-liked post ever. Yep, a regular egg. In its shell, without avocado. The world's most famous egg...
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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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Imagine if you could click a button and be able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what Fab City is all about:...
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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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Did you know you don't always have to cook with food? As part of our new CultureFutures project we’ve been...
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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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Let us take you inside an old school made from recycled theatre salvage, decommissioned bio labs and art freight containers...
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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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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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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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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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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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Did you know you can change the world in your spare time, in your gym kit, your pyjamas, or simply...
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"Do you believe in magic?" These innovators do. In West Africa, a ‘grigri’ is a mystical amulet that protects. In Spain,...
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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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By now we all know that indestructible plastic is bad for the planet. A massive amount ends up in our oceans...
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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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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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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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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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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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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: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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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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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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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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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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As co-founder of the open source building system WikiHouse, Alastair Parvin sees democracy as a design blueprint, has never shied away from...
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