Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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Where’s gender in the climate change negotiations? The Gender Climate Tracker app and platform answers this question with the latest...
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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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Occupy space, occupy history: can you hear the land you’re walking on? In Fitzroy, a historical inner suburb of Melbourne,...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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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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Just one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
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In the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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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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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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How can we make cutting-edge science and STEM discoveries available to younger audiences? It's important for the scientist of the...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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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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Argentine celebrity chef Narda Lepes has long championed a plant-based diet at Narda Comedor in Buenos Aires and now she’s...
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"The world needs 70 percent more food right now and there are two ways to address that: deforest to create...
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Download the app, lend your eyes to solve tasks big and small, and help blind and partially sighted people lead...
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Just ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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A powerful mini-computer ‘teaching assistant’ is revolutionising Latin American education and can help bridge the pedagogical divide between the world’s...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Fertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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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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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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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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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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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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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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Keeping up with the latest fashion can be an expensive business. Constantly buying and throwing away clothes is also really...
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Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee is a t-shirt with guts. The ‘smart’ garment projects biology onto children in order to teach them about anatomy. Described by...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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Submitted by you: Coming out of Zug, Switzerland (dubbed 'Crypto Valley'), ShapeShift’s goal is ‘to be the fastest, most private...
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Submitted by you: Sending money home to families throughout Indonesia is fraught with issues – finding a physical location, fees, transaction...
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Submitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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This isn't clickbait: an electrical engineer based in South Africa has designed an automated locker system that allows people with chronic conditions to...
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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission...
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Seattle-based mobile app Stuffstr may help multinational retailers transfer to the circular economy. Clothing giants such as H&M and The North...
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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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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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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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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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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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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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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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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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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Submitted by you: Familyar is an app to prevent loneliness and social isolation of older adults by deeply involving families...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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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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Many up and coming African developers create innovative software, but they do not know how to commercialise their products. At...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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