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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...
See moreRebecca Morris grew up in Menorca and remembers the joy that she felt going on adventures in the wilds of...
See moreSolar Sister is bringing solar lighting to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Women are disproportionately impacted by...
See moreCalling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
See moreBusinesses too can be the change. In 2010, three engineers met and started what can only be described as...
See moreTwo Achuars, a gringo, a German, two Kichwas, and three quiteños got on a boat and revolutionised transport in the...
See moreCopenhagen is home to Europe’s largest vertical farm, Nordic Harvest, that uses renewable energy and applies robotic technology in innovative...
See moreFlowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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See moreImagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
See moreEver travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
See moreMarmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
See moreWhat links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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 moreThe use of forest biomass to generate heat energy is huge in Europe: trunk, bark, branches, needles leaves and roots...
See moreThe idea of transforming organic dairy waste into biogas is not a novel one, but this is certainly the cheesiest....
See moreThought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
See more"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
See moreAre you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
See moreOur W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
See more"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
See more“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
See moreWhat if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
See moreOver the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
See more... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
See moreIt started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
See moreWhat if your business didn’t have to buy any lamps or lights and could just pay for the light you...
See more🎫 AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
See moreRobin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
See moreOver twenty years ago, a little known carpet tile company called Interface embarked on its plush path to sustainability. Its destination...
See moreDuring Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
See moreWhat 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...
See moreSubmitted by you: Travel around India and you’ll spot Nishant Bioenergy’s earth stoves in restaurants, hostels, kitchens, corporate canteens, religious places, dhaba (roadside...
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 moreCan an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
See moreNearly 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,...
See moreWe are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
See moreWith 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...
See moreThe sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
See moreThe Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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 moreToday billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
See moreHarvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
See morePlanned to sail in 2020, Peace Boat’s Ecoship will be the world’s most sustainable cruise ship – and a flagship...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreEver seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
See moreWhen we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
See moreThis March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
See moreInstallation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
See moreWhen the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
See moreIt might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
See moreIs there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
See moreUnderstanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
See moreIn Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
See moreAligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
See moreWith more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
See moreNearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
See moreIn March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
See moreUntouched for centuries, Morocco’s deserts are catapulting the country into solar-energy superstardom. Once a backdrop for epic productions such as Lawrence...
See moreNever before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
See moreWhile sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
See moreAs humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
See moreRevolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
See moreIn just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
See morePower Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
See moreThe world’s first electrically powered car and passenger ferry, namely Ampere, started service in Norway earlier this year. Conventional ferries...
See moreThis is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
See morePopulations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
See moreScience and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
See moreA new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
See moreSilicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
See moreApple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
See moreAfrica risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
See moreUntil now we haven’t been very good at using the sun’s energy to power our homes. The average photovoltaic panel...
See moreWith a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
See moreA new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
See moreFrom companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
See moreThe website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
See moreBuying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
See moreWhat greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
See moreAn ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
See more“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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