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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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See moreOne third all all food is wasted; which is staggering. But there is a fun way to reduce this. The...
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See moreNo, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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See moreTraditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is the...
See moreDo you have an adult bicycle that’s gathering cobwebs in your garage, shed or attic? Life Cycle UK takes donations...
See moreIt is estimated that 600 tons of plastic are disposed off in Uganda daily. Kampala city alone accounts for the...
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 moreCan mushrooms be the platform we build the future on? We’ve used mushrooms as food for thousands of years, but...
See moreThe 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...
See moreWho says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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See moreWhile mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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See moreImagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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See moreThe Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
See moreDúlabio has designed a unique blend of seaweed species that are native to Ireland to dramatically reduce methane and other...
See moreRepair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
See moreA lot of things we have are made from plastic. The synthetic material is used everywhere, but it also ends...
See moreScrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
See moreA pioneer in Argentina’s anti-straw movement, Juani Gerardi, founder of Bioconexión, was way ahead of state authorities in banishing unfantastic...
See moreDo you rule out peppers because they're too twisted? Unconsciously, most of us discard some fruits and vegetables in the...
See moreImagine a phoenix rising from the ashes. But it's made from 12,072 homemade paper feathers, painted, cut out and trimmed to...
See moreUpcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
See moreWhile surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
See moreWhen it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
See moreDo you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
See moreCould 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
See moreDino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup – but most of his loyal...
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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 moreA major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
See moreYou can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
See moreWelcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
See moreOne of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
See more“It’s like watching YouTube: you start on one thing and then an hour later you’re watching something completely different.” Distinguished...
See moreToast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
See moreThrift celebrates resourcefulness over wastefulness. Through art. Concerned with sustainability in the fields of art, design and fashion, the ongoing publishing and...
See moreDecades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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 moreGlitter gets everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. A weekend at a festival can lead to weeks of picking the sparkly...
See moreRenewable energy sources continue to improve and merge into mainstream use. One of the best examples of this is Barcelona-based...
See moreThe aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
See moreUnsecured bins create a death trap for wildlife. Keeping plastic and litter out of the environment and oceans is easier...
See moreModern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
See moreKeeping up with the latest fashion can be an expensive business. Constantly buying and throwing away clothes is also really...
See moreHusband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
See moreThe charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur behind Madiba & Nature, the Cameroonian nonprofit which uses plastic waste to build...
See moreIndia has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
See moreInspired by the thousands of tents typically left behind after music festivals, two twenty-something Dutch entrepreneurs have decided to give...
See moreAround 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
See moreGrowing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
See moreA lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
See moreSubmitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
See moreOver a billion computers are in use worldwide. In developing communities, once they are no longer in use, or beyond...
See moreWhen a young South African woman and her childhood friends created social startup Rethaka with the aim of making a small impact on the world,...
See moreFew things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreChicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
See moreRail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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See moreOne of the main challenges of the current century is to transform our consumption-oriented economic system into an eco-friendly and...
See moreApple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
See moreWhen the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
See moreIs there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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