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If #PlaytheFuture month on the Atlas showed us anything, it’s that games are serious stuff. A playful approach to solving...
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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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The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
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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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Ecocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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Europe’s densest neighbourhood, die-hard champion of authenticity and diversity, is starting to tell its own story in its first co-created...
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LA Green Grounds makes the world more edible one garden at a time, and in doing so turns urban food...
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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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This smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
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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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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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These dolls outsell Barbie in Nigeria and so they should. The colourful Queens of Africa help young African girls embrace their...
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Founded in 2015, French biotechnology start-up PILI Bio seeks to disrupt the unsustainable production of dyes in the textile industry...
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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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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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Most farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
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Indigenous communities are already experiencing how climate change disrupts traditional ways of life that have been preserved over thousands of...
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When Guzel Sanzhapova, the founder and owner of Cocco Bello Bow Ties, decided to start producing creamy honey with berries...
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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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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 climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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"I am a scientist. I am a strategist. And I am a black woman." Biomedical scientist, South Central Los Angeles...
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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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The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity...
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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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Blazing a trail for other women, Christine Fox has held the highest rank ever for a woman at the Pentagon and...
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You don’t need to be a scientist, researcher or academic to answer our biggest global challenges. That’s the point of...
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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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Robots and humans are working together to save water, enhance agriculture and make wine lovers very, very happy. An estimated...
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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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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now – which means there is no better time...
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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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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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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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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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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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Marcus Shingles believes failure is meant to define the true parameters of what real success could look like: "If you’re...
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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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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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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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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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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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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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Gum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
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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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German delivery firm DHL have beaten tech firms Amazon and Google in delivering medical packages to remote or geographically challenging areas via drone, announcing...
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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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Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna knows that wonderful things happen in the resilient and energetic Lebanon – and that they deserve to be heard of....
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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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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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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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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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Please note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
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Parag Khanna loves maps. Born in India, his parents took him everywhere on their travels while growing up in the...
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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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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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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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Built on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
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More commonly known for being eaten with rice after going through the traditional Japanese methods of blanching, cooling, salting, there...
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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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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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Since the Atlas launch just a few months ago we've seen some of the most forward-thinking and insightful minds on the planet walk through our...
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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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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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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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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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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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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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The Croatian-born 3D computational artist, geneticist and 'data-friendly Elvis' on the beauty of maths, transmitting emotions as visuals and data...
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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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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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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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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Many of Melbourne’s 70,000 trees are approaching the end of their useful life due to a combination of age and...
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There isn’t a magic pill to cure the world’s diseases, and there isn’t a one size fits all solution for...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Demand for fisheries has been growing at 6-8% a year. However, the global production of fishmeal has been steady at...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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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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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
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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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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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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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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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