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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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See moreMarmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
See moreWelcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
See moreWater is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
See moreIn an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
See moreA museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
See moreA startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
See moreA franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
See moreA counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
See moreThis water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
See moreHome to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
See moreOne of Detroit’s most blighted inner city blocks is being transformed into an eco-village, led by a powerhouse resident with...
See moreIn São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
See moreThe spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
See moreDo you segregate your wet and dry waste? Most people think it’s extra work, but if you can convert it...
See moreThe Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
See moreReady, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
See moreBeing an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
See moreWhile mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
See moreThe rise of subscription services online has led to some revolutionary new circular business models, and – while cat litter...
See moreRepair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
See moreImagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
See moreWhile surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
See moreArticles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
See more"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
See moreCould 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
See moreDog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
See morePlastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
See moreNow your baby can look like an eco-friendly sumo wrestler, but, more importantly, provide an alternative to disposable diapers. 17...
See moreMeet the new magical FutureHero of super-gardening... the black soldier fly. A group of University of Tokyo students have developed...
See moreThe idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
See more"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
See moreColombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
See more“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
See moreIt was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
See moreA simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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 moreThe numbers look great: 100,000 landmines destroyed, 22 million square metres of land returned to local communities and over 900,000...
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 moreVienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
See moreLife used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
See moreAround 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
See moreIn the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
See moreGrowing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
See moreCondom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
See moreIn 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreNow you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
See moreIn light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
See moreIs there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
See moreMore than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
See morePower Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
See moreAn estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
See moreThis free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
See moreIn India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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