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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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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Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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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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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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The Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
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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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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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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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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 beautiful game is embracing its green side. In the ultimate upcycle, a global architecture studio is using airplane bodies to...
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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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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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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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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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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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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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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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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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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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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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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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By working directly with Bedouin communities, a wild approach to sustainable tourism in Jordan is creating a real impact on...
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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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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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In the state of Lousiana, the coastline abutting the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing at an alarming rate, due in...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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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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Do you have an adult bicycle that’s gathering cobwebs in your garage, shed or attic? Life Cycle UK takes donations...
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Being an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
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Who says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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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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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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The rise of subscription services online has led to some revolutionary new circular business models, and – while cat litter...
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The Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
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While Colombian roaster Devoción has sourced specialty arabica beans directly from independent farmers and paid more than the fair-trade asking...
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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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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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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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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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“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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For those working to battle climate breakdown, the complexity, uncertainty and scale of its challenges can make any single solution...
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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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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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"Why do an equality lineup now? Because we should have done it ages ago." It's 2019 and we've all had...
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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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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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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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Fasten your helmets as this week we're exploring creativity in the most toxic place on earth and getting lost in...
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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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"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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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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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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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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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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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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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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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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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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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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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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What if your business didn’t have to buy any lamps or lights and could just pay for the light you...
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While the Internet gets excited about the fact that the new polymer five pound note plays vinyl, we're celebrating five projects...
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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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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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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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When a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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The future of construction goes far beyond 3D printable homes or smart cities. In this video created for Beyond Building...
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