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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Two Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
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Solar Foods is one of those mind-blowing future-food incubator stories that can save any dinner conversation - and perhaps even...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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As pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andrè Borschberg took Solar Impulse around the world for its record-breaking journey, the world-leading manufacturer of...
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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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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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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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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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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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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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Businesses too can be the change. In 2010, three engineers met and started what can only be described as...
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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 farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers It's difficult to...
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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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Copenhagen is home to Europe’s largest vertical farm, Nordic Harvest, that uses renewable energy and applies robotic technology in innovative...
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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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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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? “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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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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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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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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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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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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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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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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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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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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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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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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For those working to battle climate breakdown, the complexity, uncertainty and scale of its challenges can make any single solution...
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"In these volatile times, with so much in flux, there’s everything to play for." The most daring innovators aren’t found...
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“If you want to do something about climate change, change the politics. Use the system to fight the system.” Imagine...
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“Want to be a revolutionary? Rip up paving slabs, plant gardens & cover your roof in solar panels." In South...
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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 are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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"As we struggle with climate catastrophe, what needs to be addressed is what we do down here." – Paul Hawken We must, we can...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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An egg has become Instagram’s most-liked post ever. Yep, a regular egg. In its shell, without avocado. The world's most famous egg...
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Hip Hop Caucus are using the power of hip hop culture to activate people across America and around the world...
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“We know a new politics of solidarity, individual responsibility and collective transformation is urgently needed. Can we culturally educate ourselves...
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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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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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"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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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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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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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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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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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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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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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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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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This year it will be ten years since environmental journalist and broadcaster Gaia Vince began her 900-day journey around the world...
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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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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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If you’re responsible for creating the “biggest solar powered computer in world” and it’s capable of delivering three fundamental services...
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In South London a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable power – while showing the true democratic involvement...
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Coneix deu ments brillants que estan canviant el món! Tenen en comú que han trobat solucions a reptes globals que semblava...
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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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What do Uber flying cars, Hoversurf drone taxis, Amazon's giant mothership zeppelin, the Soviet city in the sky and these visions of high-elevation life have...
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"When you need a doctor, you phone someone, when you are in trouble, you phone someone. If you want to...
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So, how do you get power to the people who need it most, to those who can’t afford it? ...
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Eco-warrior and outspoken founder of the world’s first green energy company, Ecotricity, Dale Vince is on a mission to green up...
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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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Submitted by: Skateistan Universe Awareness (UNAWE) believes that learning about our cosmos and space can help expand children’s worldview and...
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As storytellers we're interested in how transformative change happens. This week we hosted the first Salon with our Project Breakthrough partners Volans. The...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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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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... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
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Filming movies wastes huge amounts of energy. That's why the Academy Award-nominated Hive Lighting wants to help Hollywood turn the lights of...
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As we enter a new year, it’s time to look back at our recent videos for Project Breakthrough. Whether it's the ex-American...
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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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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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Patrick Thomas aims to make the world a better place with his "80-year startup". Covestro products are everywhere in modern life –...
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Given his job as a futurologist, a lot of fearful, liberally minded types have been asking Mark Stevenson what he thinks about...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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The Cairo-born futurist, technologist and award-winning science fiction author on Elon Musk, how his best ideas come on hikes and why...
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It’s not often you get so many of the brains behind Atlas of the Future projects in the same room at the...
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The super-optimistic Peter Diamandis (AKA "Pete in Space") has hope in abundance. As Executive Chairman of both the Silicon Valley institution Singularity University and XPRIZE – the world's...
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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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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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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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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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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 next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current...
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Have you spotted cyborg vultures catching illegal fly tippers; heard of a cool way tech is bringing clean water to the...
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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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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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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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Planned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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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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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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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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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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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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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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In March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
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The virtual reality storyteller and documentary producer, who has realised the visions of Terry Gilliam, Chris Milk, Spike Jonze, Robert...
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Untouched for centuries, Morocco’s deserts are catapulting the country into solar-energy superstardom. Once a backdrop for epic productions such as Lawrence...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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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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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if we could end extreme poverty, hunger, disease, climate change and fight inequality and injustice by...
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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Until now we haven’t been very good at using the sun’s energy to power our homes. The average photovoltaic panel...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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A Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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