“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
See more
Projects
Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
See more
India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
See more
The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
See more
Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
See more
The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
See more
Submitted by: Skateistan Since 2002, Tony Hawk Foundation has been helping youth and their communities connect with their local leaders to...
See more
Submitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
See more
By now we all know that indestructible plastic is bad for the planet. A massive amount ends up in our oceans...
See more
When it comes to climate change, a self-described "walking billboard for the glaciers" wants to prove that anyone can make a...
See more
Iceland is progressive. It ranks first on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index, is the first to legalise abortion...
See more
We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
See more
If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
See more
Food has always had a special place in human history. From the multi-religious traditions of “breaking bread” with friends and...
See more
A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
See more
Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
See more
The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was a passionate advocate for women’s right to speak out and influence change, and...
See more
Japan is facing a demographic disaster. As of 2014, 26 per cent of the population is over 65-years-old. Simultaneously the...
See more
Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
See more
A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
See more
While the panda is officially no no longer endangered, there are fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in China – the...
See more
Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
See more
Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
See more
Games are everywhere, from the daily commute and at work, to in the pub over a pint. They forge friendships,...
See more
Frustrated that black girls are almost never the main character in children's literature, and tired of only reading about "white boys and...
See more
In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
See more
US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
See more
What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
See more
Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna knows that wonderful things happen in the resilient and energetic Lebanon – and that they deserve to be heard of....
See more
The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See more
Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
See more
Planned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
See more
Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See more
In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
See more
When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
See more
Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
See more
When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
See more
For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
See more
Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
See more
Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
See more
Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
See more
Nairobi's minibus taxis carry over three million people around the city every day. The loud and tightly packed matatu buses...
See more
The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
See more
Trialled in numerous countries since the second world war and supported by many, there has never been a study which...
See more
The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
See more
In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
See more
Approximately three-quarters of Americans are in debt, in most cases due to the high cost of healthcare and education. Nearly...
See more
In the Southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Chirezi Foundation is helping to bring about peaceful solutions to...
See more
In the woods of Maine is a US Summer Camp like no other. Travelling thousands of miles from their homes...
See more
In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
See more
As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
See more
The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
See more
Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
See more
Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
See more
The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
See more
Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
See more
Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
See more
Laki-Laki Peduli, translated as 'men that care', works to reshape common concepts of masculinity in Indonesia. Even in the country’s...
See more
The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
See more
Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
See more
Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
See more
An online forum with the simple slogan ‘We Exist!’ is providing support for the 2.5 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
See more
"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
See more
Tea is the world’s most popular beverage. It impacts on the lives of millions, providing employment and export earnings worldwide....
See more
São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
See more
Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
See more
The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
See more