Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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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 Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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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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Welcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
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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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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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Have you been naughty or nice this year? Good news: you can redeem yourselves! As the bumpy, transformative, but never-boring...
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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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Something special is happening inside an old school made from recycled salvage from a theatre company, decommissioned bio labs and...
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Let us transport you from Mauritania to Indonesia via blood, sweat and paint, pixels and words... Over the past few months...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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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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"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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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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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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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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Although running events can be a strain on the environment, there are initiatives that are tackling food waste at catered...
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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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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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“Life didn’t take over the world by combat, but by networking.” — Lynn Margulis What does it feel like to...
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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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“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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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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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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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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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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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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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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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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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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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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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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This Berlin-based circular economy startup converts your old clothes into something brand new – and even more stylish. Every...
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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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The problem of fast fashion is – by its nature – accelerating quickly. In the UK alone, people are purchasing five...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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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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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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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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Repair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
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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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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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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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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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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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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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“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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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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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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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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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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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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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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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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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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One of the main challenges of the current century is to transform our consumption-oriented economic system into an eco-friendly and...
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Everyone is guilty of buying stuff that they secretly know won’t last and will end up in a landfill, in...
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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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