Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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With faith in politics at an all-time low and thorny and divisive issues aplenty in these volatile and politically corrosive...
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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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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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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is all about – a...
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Africa is building a great big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara...
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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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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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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: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Japan is facing a demographic disaster. As of 2014, 26 per cent of the population is over 65-years-old. Simultaneously the...
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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 world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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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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Pathways for Promise, an initiative within the Asian University for Women, is providing free education to talented women from among Bangladeshi garment...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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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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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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Trialled in numerous countries since the second world war and supported by many, there has never been a study which...
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This year the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes through war, persecution and geopolitical instability has undergone the...
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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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Approximately three-quarters of Americans are in debt, in most cases due to the high cost of healthcare and education. Nearly...
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What if you knew that, by donating 1 dollar to a social project, you would be immediately participating to meet...
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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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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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It is over two decades since Rwanda experienced one of the most brutal genocides in history. Now, as progress has...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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In New Delhi, Open Source Drug Discovery takes the shamefully inefficient and expensive hit rate quoted by the big pharmaceutical...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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Nigeria’s healthcare system is notoriously expensive, and an unexpected emergency can bankrupt a family. Partnering up with Hygeia, EFInA (an...
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Latin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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In the streets of Cairo, Casablanca and Beirut people speak a different Arabic to the classical language taught in universities...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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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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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." So ends the...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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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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The Gleaning Network work with three staggering facts: that 20-40% of the UK’s fruit and veg are rejected by supermarkets’...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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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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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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The Philippines is blessed with fertile land and a climate well suited to crop production but the Asian island nation...
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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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Access to toilets is one of the biggest issues in the developing world. As millions of slum dwellers don’t have...
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