"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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Owing to crime, the neighbourhood of Kalihi in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, has a bad rap. That's where KVIBE (Kalihi Valley Instructional...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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A lack of wheelchair accessibility makes it hard for disabled people to maintain independence. That’s why a group of ten...
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“Hip Hop Caucus represents the streets, it represents those who have a message to tell and who won’t be quiet,...
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“With a collective effort and more awareness we can work against gangsterism. The way I see it, culture is a...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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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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Can wool change lives? It can in Buenos Aires, where members of the Villa 31 cooperative turn it into colourful...
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So, how do you get power to the people who need it most, to those who can’t afford it? ...
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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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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India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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Submitted by you: Sending money home to families throughout Indonesia is fraught with issues – finding a physical location, fees, transaction...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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Submitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Khrousar Thmey ('New Family' in Cambodian) is a school for children who are deaf or blind living in...
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Iceland is progressive. It ranks first on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index, is the first to legalise abortion...
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Food has always had a special place in human history. From the multi-religious traditions of “breaking bread” with friends and...
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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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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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We don’t really think too much about the story behind the soap that we wash with, but this is a...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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Frustrated that black girls are almost never the main character in children's literature, and tired of only reading about "white boys and...
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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna knows that wonderful things happen in the resilient and energetic Lebanon – and that they deserve to be heard 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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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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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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Two students who connected over a shared interest in invention and problem-solving have designed a pair of gloves that translate American Sign...
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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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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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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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Hamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
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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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Trialled in numerous countries since the second world war and supported by many, there has never been a study which...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
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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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People have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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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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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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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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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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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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