The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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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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Keeping up with the latest fashion can be an expensive business. Constantly buying and throwing away clothes is also really...
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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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India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
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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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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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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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Submitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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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 Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...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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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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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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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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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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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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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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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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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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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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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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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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In 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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The food industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Already struggling to feed its population, in India...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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