“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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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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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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Businesses too can be the change. In 2010, three engineers met and started what can only be described as...
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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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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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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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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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Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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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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The beautiful game is embracing its green side. In the ultimate upcycle, a global architecture studio is using airplane bodies to...
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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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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Marmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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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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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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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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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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A picture paints a thousand words – but when it comes to fashion, there’s a lot more to say. Texture is...
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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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Upcycling is a key part of a sustainable fashion future: but Denver-based Canned Goods like to go further. As well...
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Traditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is the...
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Do you have an adult bicycle that’s gathering cobwebs in your garage, shed or attic? Life Cycle UK takes donations...
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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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Who says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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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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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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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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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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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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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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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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Meet the new magical FutureHero of super-gardening... the black soldier fly. A group of University of Tokyo students have developed...
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The idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
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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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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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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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The F.A.K.E. Movement is a platform where vegan and ethical designers can promote proudly their clothes and accessories. Created by Jonathan...
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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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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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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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Eco-warrior and outspoken founder of the world’s first green energy company, Ecotricity, Dale Vince is on a mission to green up...
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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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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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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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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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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one 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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Planned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
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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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Now you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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Power Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
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