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Now you are welcome to download a virtual van Gogh without having to pay an arm, a leg or an ear for...
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Five African nations went to the polls this week in what has been dubbed Africa's #SuperSunday. Voting on the same...
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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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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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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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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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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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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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What a week. (Does anyone know what day it is?) This week saw the digital landscape flooded with action: Earth...
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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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“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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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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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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“You've got to give back more than you take.” Jock Zonfrillo is going above and beyond in taking Down Under on...
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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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For the past year Atlas of the Future has been excited by creative and cultural projects with a social mission....
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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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Because it's not all about science and tech you know, we've been on a mission to map creative and cultural...
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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 simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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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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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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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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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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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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Blockchain isn't just about finance and Bitcoin, but when Jessi Baker started Provenance that wasn’t the case. That’s why her idea was considered...
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"We either build the future we want, or become the victims of it." As Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for...
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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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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term 'cyberspace' to describe a consensual hallucination created by millions of computers that we...
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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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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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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Submitted by you: Coming out of Zug, Switzerland (dubbed 'Crypto Valley'), ShapeShift’s goal is ‘to be the fastest, most private...
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Every year Sónar+D forms a key part of the stamina-pushing Sónar Festival, one of Europe's biggest and most forward-thinking dance music events. If you...
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Just as the Atlas mission is to 'Democratise the Future', littleBits is on a mission to 'Democratise Hardware' by empowering everyone –...
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In March 2017, Fab Lab Barcelona celebrated ten years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, technology and creation with a big birthday fiesta at the...
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It is now more important than ever that communities of people take a stand for the things they believe, and...
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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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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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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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This week Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright claimed that he is the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto,...
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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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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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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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The lead founder behind the revolutionary WikiHouse – the digitally manufactured building system that anyone can download and make –...
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Hart Island lies to the east of New York City and is the largest tax-funded mass cemetery in the world....
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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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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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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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Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Marina Testino is an award-winning ARTivist who works at the intersection of fashion and advocacy. It’s well known that the...
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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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“You cannot respect something without loving it, and you cannot love something you do not know” Jon Kareaga is a...
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Force of Nature responds to eco-anxiety through education programmes, consulting and campaigns, asking people to step up rather than shut...
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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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“Women’s bodies and lands are a field of battle and resistance.” From street marches to directive boards, ecofeminist thinker and...
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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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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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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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“Do you remember a time when the sky was filled with birds and bees, and colourful fruit grew from the...
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We hope you’re enjoying this holiday season! Whether you’re a fan of mulled wine and sweaters or a Santa hat...
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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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“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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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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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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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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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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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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Ecocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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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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Europe’s densest neighbourhood, die-hard champion of authenticity and diversity, is starting to tell its own story in its first co-created...
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Australian start-up Flow is bringing beekeeping to the masses with their Flow Hive that reduces stress both for bees and...
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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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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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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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TômTex uses shellfish waste to create a sustainable alternative to harmful leather practices. Designer Uyen Tran may have developed TômTex...
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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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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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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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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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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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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 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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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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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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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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More and more people are ditching the supermarket in their quest for seasonal local goods. La Ruche qui dit Oui...
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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in 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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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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Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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"Humans are amazing, especially in times of struggle, but to make social change, we need to be moved." Two theatre-troublemakers...
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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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Two women are changing the narrative on Yemen by creating groundbreaking and authentic local artistic content in an extreme environment....
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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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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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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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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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Join us for a special online edition of 'Fixing the future' from 29 October-10 December 2020, as the future of education...
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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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Learn languages with native speakers in conversation sessions that offer hope to refugees who have lost everything. Looking to...
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“To change the world, we need to change the people who will change it.” Social analyst and world scout guru Eduard...
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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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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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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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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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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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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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With 51,330 species spread across Colombia, the world’s second-most biodiverse country creates an immense pantry for chef Leo Espinosa and...
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Whether by sharing or by hiding their sexual orientation throughout their lives, LGBT older people often find themselves socially isolated...
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As part of Civic Square's Department of Dreams project, on 22 June 2020 we will be offering a half day...
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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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Fashion can put the Earth first. Two academic activists prove how – in a bold new plan. The clothes we...
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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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Welcome to Groundhog May. In most parts of the world May is a time of joy, when everything seems possible;...
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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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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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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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A powerful mini-computer ‘teaching assistant’ is revolutionising Latin American education and can help bridge the pedagogical divide between the world’s...
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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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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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Dog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
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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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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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Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fungi, are...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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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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This week, the Global Climate Strike will go down in history. On Friday 20 September 2019, the world witnessed the biggest...
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Join us this Sunday in Barcelona to hear from one of the most articulate voices in British hip-hop at Middle Passage...
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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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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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… and into gyms, refugee camps and pirate radio. These 8 colourful projects combine art, creative optimism and street smarts...
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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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Blazing a trail for other women, Christine Fox has held the highest rank ever for a woman at the Pentagon and...
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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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Thrift celebrates resourcefulness over wastefulness. Through art. Concerned with sustainability in the fields of art, design and fashion, the ongoing publishing and...
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If we had asked former chief architect of Barcelona City Council Vicente Guallart what his favourite city in the world was in...
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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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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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Hip Hop Caucus are using the power of hip hop culture to activate people across America and around the world...
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Good news: the power of true happiness can be discovered collectively. Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and cheery activist Lynne Segal...
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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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If you've taken part in a morning rave, group run or public art experience; if you've joined a campaign to...
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"The youth are co-creators, coordinators and researchers of everything that Rios de Encontro does." – Dan Baron Cohen, Co-founder, Rios...
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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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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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“We want to drive political action with our work, and I don’t think you can do that sitting down.” –...
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"It’s in the freely shared ideas that collisions, oddities and thrills emerge." – Mary Anne Moser, Beakerhead Co-founder Widely known...
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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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The things NASA want to do next are “really, really hard”. There is a misconception NASA is concerned only with...
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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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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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Hip hop and politics. Blind photographers. Crayons and big ideas. In this week's CultureFutures special we're exploring creativity in surprising...
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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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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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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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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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It takes a special combo of people and ideas to make an event what it is, not just on stage,...
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Are you ready for the good, the bad and the ugly? Here's the bad news: the world is broken. The...
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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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Future curious? On 13 March a future-‘supergroup’ will gather for the first time in Barcelona. Brought to you by Atlas...
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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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In news unrelated to monkey clones, last night's super blue blood moon or the adorable 'shower rat' (sorry to burst your soap...
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We're big fans of simple tech that makes things better. While mobile Internet rapidly becomes a primary source of knowledge, not...
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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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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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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Trying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
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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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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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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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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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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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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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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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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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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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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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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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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Nearly ten years ago, in the Tuscan seaside town of Livorno, a robotics researcher asked her father to catch her...
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Parag Khanna loves maps. Born in India, his parents took him everywhere on their travels while growing up in the...
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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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This is the big one. The Tesla Model 3, unveiled today, could bring electric cars to the masses and provide...
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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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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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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Atlas of the Future is looking for a dynamic and results-driven Community Manager based in Barcelona to develop and execute...
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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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Connectivity has been top of the agenda at Mobile World Congress this year and Facebook's new project, announced at the Congress, aims to bring...
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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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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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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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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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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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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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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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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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The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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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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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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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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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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I'm thrilled to introduce myself as editor-in-chief of Atlas of the Future, the new international Barcelona-London venture from Oriol Soler, Cathy...
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