Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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Projects
Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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Darling it's better Down where it's wetter Without fishing nets Over the past 10 years, humans have produced more...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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How can we buy clothes that look great, fit well – and don’t harm the planet? Ecoalf has found one answer:...
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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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An ethical women's enterprise is creating vegan soaps that use plastic-free packaging made from a natural waste material that is...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has developed her own eco-friendly packaging as a substitute for plastic. Part of the problem causing the...
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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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Meet the Icelandic designer turning animal skin and bones into food packaging to get us talking. And it is. ...
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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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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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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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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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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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Do you segregate your wet and dry waste? Most people think it’s extra work, but if you can convert it...
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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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This Berlin-based circular economy startup converts your old clothes into something brand new – and even more stylish. Every...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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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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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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It is estimated that 600 tons of plastic are disposed off in Uganda daily. Kampala city alone accounts for the...
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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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Being an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
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Can mushrooms be the platform we build the future on? We’ve used mushrooms as food for thousands of years, but...
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The consumption of non-renewable resources for single use items and the amount of waste generated is profoundly unsustainable. That’s why London-based tech startup NotPla wants...
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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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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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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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The Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
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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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A pioneer in Argentina’s anti-straw movement, Juani Gerardi, founder of Bioconexión, was way ahead of state authorities in banishing unfantastic...
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Do you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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Plastic 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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Now your baby can look like an eco-friendly sumo wrestler, but, more importantly, provide an alternative to disposable diapers. 17...
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A major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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Welcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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A simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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Glitter gets everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. A weekend at a festival can lead to weeks of picking the sparkly...
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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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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It’s predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans. Not content to sit back...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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Inspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
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By now we all know that indestructible plastic is bad for the planet. A massive amount ends up in our oceans...
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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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Over twenty years ago, a little known carpet tile company called Interface embarked on its plush path to sustainability. Its destination...
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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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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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Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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Bakey's have come up with an edible alternative to the 120 billion pieces of disposable plastic knives, forks and spoons...
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When a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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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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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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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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