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See moreDriven by a firm commitment to create greener cities and a more sustainable future, Urban Green Club designs, manufactures and...
See moreQuite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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See moreGames can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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See moreAs climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
See morePlastic 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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See more"We love Patagonia – it’s one of the wildest places left on Earth, where there’s a chance to protect ecosystems...
See moreSomething important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
See more"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
See more"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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See moreScience and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s in the...
See moreIn the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
See moreAsk anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
See moreOut of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
See moreOne person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
See moreDo you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
See moreIn 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
See moreOpen Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is an example of a distributed 21st century design. Their purpose is to democratise mobility – by enabling...
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See moreWhat if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
See moreMeet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
See moreInspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
See moreLife used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
See moreIf Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
See moreOver the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
See moreDubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of the...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreRail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
See moreImagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreThis March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
See moreIn Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
See moreAligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
See moreAlmost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
See moreThe age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
See moreIn a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
See moreToday some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
See moreMinibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
See moreLatin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
See moreAs the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
See moreBangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
See moreScience and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
See moreNot content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
See moreIn the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
See moreWe’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
See moreWith a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
See moreBeside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
See moreA new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
See moreIt is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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