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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“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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Easkey Britton is an ocean pioneer in so many respects. A multiple championship-winning and big wave surfer. An interdisciplinary academic...
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Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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Can music make a connection through people’s busy everyday lives and change the narrative on environmental issues? That is 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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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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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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We recently dived head-first into the world of music visionary and climate activist Brian Eno. After an inspiring conversation about...
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In just a few short years YACAP has grown from a handful of individuals to hundreds of members across the...
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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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“We need to be able to imagine a world where we value compassion and community and nature over consumption and...
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Welcome to World 54, where the production of new textiles has been severely restricted, leading to the development of a...
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Welcome to the Mushroom World, an ecologically minded generation of thinkers who adopted mushrooms as their non-human spiritual guides. Once...
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Gender adviser for climate justice and resilience at Oxfam Intermón, Sandra Sotelo Reyes has always been interested in questioning the...
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Project CeCe is the search engine for sustainable fashion. The cat has long been out of the shopping bag —...
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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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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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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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From scratch to scrap, this circular restaurant is turning foodies into sustainability champions. But don’t ask them to serve seafood....
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We recently caught up with entrepreneur, eco-legend and all-round excellent chap Tim Smit. In a winding conversation (incl. digressions into...
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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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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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Daring conservationist, biologist and adventurer Sacha Dench, a.k.a the “human swan”, is saving migratory species one awe-inspiring expedition at a...
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The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
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In Catalonia, thousands of people are committed to nature tracking. Their data collected over the years has enabled analysis of...
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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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Join us from 6 - 27 July 2021 for our second online edition of ‘Fixing the Future’: Nature talks, a...
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Ever felt inspired to take action after seeing a beautiful piece of art? An international non-profit based in Hawaii is...
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One of the most exciting legacy project’s from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is the Museu do Amanhã, or Museum...
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“We have this big vision that we would like every child to own a hundred books by the age of...
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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Farah Liz Pallaro knows from experience that a career in fashion and wellbeing often don’t go hand-in-hand. That’s why she...
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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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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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The algae-based bio-company Algaeing not only produces dyes, their patented technology allows for the creation of coloured fibers, changing the...
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Blackbirds are the inspiration for SauColors' vibrant blue dye made from waste berries – a possible sustainable alternative for colouring denim....
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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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Faber Futures is revolutionising colour with bacteria, using 500 times less water than traditional dyeing. Assemblage 002 is a reversible...
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Atlas of the Future is looking for a new Editor to take the helm of managing production of our English-language...
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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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Bold quotes, high end looks, and a top made out of radicchio. This is what the face of slow fashion...
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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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“Fashion is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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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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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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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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These are the women who make us realise that the future is not as f* as you think... As...
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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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Nature is the new gold! Save your local forest and earn money with this new stock exchange for biodiversity. ...
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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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This fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the ultimate competition to save the...
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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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What if we could rethink, reimagine, remake the world of fashion? Inequality, injustice, pollutants and waste – the fast...
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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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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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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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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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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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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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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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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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A group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
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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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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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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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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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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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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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WhyWeCraft creates immersive experiences for consumers, artisans and designers that take them closer to our cultural heritage of making. ...
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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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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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Stephanie Benedetto has repurposed fabric in her blood. At the end of the 19th century, her great grandfather started...
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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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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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Traditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is the...
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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 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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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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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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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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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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Earth Logic is a simple yet transformative call to the fashion sector: to put earth first, pledging loyalty to the...
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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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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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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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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
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Do you want to help prevent a mass extinction? Then read on, because nature is crying out for help and...
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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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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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In long-running British soap opera Eastenders, the main square is home to what is known as the 'Bench of Tears',...
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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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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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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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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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“Food is a central part of the Filipino life. For the people of an agricultural country such as the Philippines...
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"We love Patagonia – it’s one of the wildest places left on Earth, where there’s a chance to protect ecosystems...
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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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Exciting rewilding projects are happening at vastly different scales all around the world – as more and more people make...
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“It’s like watching YouTube: you start on one thing and then an hour later you’re watching something completely different.” Distinguished...
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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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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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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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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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Are you joining us for Fixing the future at the CCCB in Barcelona on 7-8 June? As if 53 'FutureHero' speakers wasn't enough, we're offering eight screenings...
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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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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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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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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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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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Turbulent headlines on the morning of 14 November (in the form of a domino run of Brexit-toppled MPs) provided a...
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“With a collective effort and more awareness we can work against gangsterism. The way I see it, culture is a...
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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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"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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There’s a growing unease about the use of behavioural advertising: technologies that track and learn about our online behaviour in...
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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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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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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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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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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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Ask anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
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Ever travelled back to the future? Well, you're about to. Strap in, because we're transporting you into the heart of...
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To read The Third Plate is not only to take an extraordinary journey in the company of chef and writer...
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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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Two fashion entrepreneurs are turning the industry inside out by asking difficult questions. Do you know who made your clothes;...
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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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How do we tackle climate change whilst maintaining a healthy economy? Just ask carbon. In the third of our three-part...
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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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If we are to achieve a sustainable future, the role of big business is critical. That's why we’re working with 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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Do you know where your handbag, or your fish, comes from? Knowing more about where products come from is vital to...
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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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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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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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Innovative outdoor brand Houdini Sportswear is creating sportswear so pure that you can eat it. Based in Sweden, with a passion...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now, which means there is no better time to...
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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 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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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
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Part of the problem with the investment industry is that it has been very backward-looking. But there is a bunch...
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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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John Elkington wants to take sustainability exponential. No pigeon steps on his watch. As a pioneer of the sustainability movement for over...
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Fresh from editing videos for the Carbon Productivity event at London's RSA, last week we returned to UBS's London HQ to shoot Volans' Breakthrough...
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Is your future one full of pant-filling fear? Or are you an eternally glass half-full optimist? Do you lie awake...
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This week in Barcelona we celebrated over a cava (or many) that The Futurenauts are now officially part of the Atlas! In...
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Submitted by you: Did you know that bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world? After harvesting...
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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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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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When it comes to climate change, a self-described "walking billboard for the glaciers" wants to prove that anyone can make a...
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Want to know what a green energy guru has in common with Ozzy Osbourne? This podcast. Sailing close to the...
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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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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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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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Climate change is real. Musk knows it, the Pope knows it and Obama knows it. With their new film, 'Before...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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Over twenty years ago, a little known carpet tile company called Interface embarked on its plush path to sustainability. Its destination...
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Today health care practitioners worldwide take the Hippocratic Oath to “First, do no harm”. In the ultimate irony, hospitals and health care...
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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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The late great comedian Bill Hicks said that we have, “just a single choice, between fear and love.” Too often,...
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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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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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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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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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We're proud to invite you to the first Atlas of the Future event. On Tuesday 10 May, FutureHero Mark Stevenson...
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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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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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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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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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As NASA's mission passed Pluto last week, I undertook my own flyby of London to meet up with Atlas of the Future co-founder...
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Power Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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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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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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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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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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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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