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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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Rebecca Morris grew up in Menorca and remembers the joy that she felt going on adventures in the wilds of...
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Solar Sister is bringing solar lighting to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Women are disproportionately impacted by...
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Calling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
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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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Two Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
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Copenhagen is home to Europe’s largest vertical farm, Nordic Harvest, that uses renewable energy and applies robotic technology in innovative...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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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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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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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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The use of forest biomass to generate heat energy is huge in Europe: trunk, bark, branches, needles leaves and roots...
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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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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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What if your business didn’t have to buy any lamps or lights and could just pay for the light you...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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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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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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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: Travel around India and you’ll spot Nishant Bioenergy’s earth stoves in restaurants, hostels, kitchens, corporate canteens, religious places, dhaba (roadside...
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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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Can an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current...
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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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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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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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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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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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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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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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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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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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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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Nearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
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In March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
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Untouched for centuries, Morocco’s deserts are catapulting the country into solar-energy superstardom. Once a backdrop for epic productions such as Lawrence...
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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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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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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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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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The world’s first electrically powered car and passenger ferry, namely Ampere, started service in Norway earlier this year. Conventional ferries...
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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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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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Until now we haven’t been very good at using the sun’s energy to power our homes. The average photovoltaic panel...
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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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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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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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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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