Welcome to World 27, where people tell the stories of their garments instead of giving them a price-tag. In...
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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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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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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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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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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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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 Sports Bra Project provides sports bras to those who don’t have access to them, lifting barriers to sports participation....
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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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The non-profit Social Skate gets social change rolling on skateboards for vulnerable children and young adults. In the 1980s,...
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Dear explorers, It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that the 3rd edition of Fixing the Future Festival...
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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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Barcelona’s street vendors launched a fashion brand that’s all about “doing things right.” Six years ago, Barcelona’s street sellers...
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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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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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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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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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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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The Caribbean Sharks Education Program uses empathy and social media to turn poachers into conservationists. “I spend about 50%...
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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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? “A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” – Patrick Geddes The...
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Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland,...
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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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Join us from 6 - 27 July 2021 for our second online edition of ‘Fixing the Future’: Nature talks, a...
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“Talent is not geographical,” Good Chance’s new Artistic Director Amir Nizar Zuabi tells us – and he should know. The award-winning Palestinian theatre-maker...
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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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Eixarcolant is propelling us towards a future in which eating native “weeds” and cultivating local varieties of vegetables and forgotten...
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The Source farms in harmony with the land, its flora and fauna, and its local community. In the Saint...
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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Cycloponics breathes new life into France’s underground car parks where they farm organic mushrooms, endives and microgreens right under the...
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In Catalonia, the Associació Obrador Xisqueta creates awareness of a protected native breed while also promoting ethical fashion. Petite,...
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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core of...
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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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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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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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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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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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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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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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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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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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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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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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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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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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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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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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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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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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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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No irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
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This 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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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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An innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
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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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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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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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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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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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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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MyOmani hopes to inspire the residents and citizens of Oman by promoting sustainable projects and effective practices for a better...
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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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A new meeting place is weaving a culture of cycling into the fabric of everyday life in Tunisia – with women cyclists...
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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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Cycling Without Age is a movement – literally – that’s creating a sense of freedom, joy and happiness in an...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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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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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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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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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you 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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"Are killer death robots from the future already among us?" That's the sort of question you can expect from the...
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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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"Education is the only way to democratise opportunities and understand freedom, equity, love and compassion." As we continue our hunt...
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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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Meet the people bringing the magic of music to youth in Palestine. In Bethlehem’s refugee camps, it can be hard...
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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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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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Tip ► Play music by the Garifuna Collective while reading this to bring their culture into vivid life. And because it’s...
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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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One third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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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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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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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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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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The simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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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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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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Think adults don’t play Minecraft? Think again. Games help solve society's challenges. Minecraft is a lot more than the biggest video game...
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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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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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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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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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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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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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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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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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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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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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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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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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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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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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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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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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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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