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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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Bestselling supertaster and food educator Bee Wilson knows a thing or two about healthy and sustainable eating. Author of six...
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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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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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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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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“When you contract your pelvic floor, the bird goes up. When you relax it, the bird goes down.” At...
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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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The Sports Bra Project provides sports bras to those who don’t have access to them, lifting barriers to sports participation....
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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“I ended up taking surfing as my coping skill because every time I am in the water, I take the...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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Closed-loop, regenerative, urban agriculture: Good Neighbor Gardens is farming the city and feeding San Diego one garden at a time....
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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core of...
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Farah Liz Pallaro knows from experience that a career in fashion and wellbeing often don’t go hand-in-hand. That’s why she...
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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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The global sextech industry is huge and growing. If there was ever a time to want more pleasure, it’s during lockdown,...
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Get ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
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A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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Wearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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Just one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
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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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A counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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Helmets are an effective ‘vaccine’ against head injuries on the road. In Vietnam, these helmets are made by people with...
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More and more people are ditching the supermarket in their quest for seasonal local goods. La Ruche qui dit Oui...
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Cycling Without Age is a movement – literally – that’s creating a sense of freedom, joy and happiness in an...
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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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In the deprived slum locations in West India, Prabhat Education Foundation is replacing despair with hope. The community-based organisation helps children with special...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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Being an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
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Shoes might not grow on trees – but this one grows itself. The Shoe That Grows has a clever design that...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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Argentine celebrity chef Narda Lepes has long championed a plant-based diet at Narda Comedor in Buenos Aires and now she’s...
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Toni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. Founded by ex-St John chef Dougie McMaster, the team at Silo brews its own booze,...
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Download the app, lend your eyes to solve tasks big and small, and help blind and partially sighted people lead...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
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Today the food systems must adapt quickly. Farmers, growers, food businesses, cafes and restaurants are being forced to simultaneously and...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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Just ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
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Calling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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Get ready to enter a surreal Noah's Ark of seeds, because deep inside a mountain on a remote island in...
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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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Dino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup – but most of his loyal...
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Dog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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Juan Gimenez is a technician at Diputació de Barcelona (DiBa). Every day, he has to analyse websites to search for...
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Decades ago, a man bought an old stone mill to feed his family with traditional cereals. One day, his daughter...
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Meet the new magical FutureHero of super-gardening... the black soldier fly. A group of University of Tokyo students have developed...
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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Fertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
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Meet Basma and Jad, the Muppets addressing the devastating impacts of crisis and displacement on children. American educational children’s television...
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Clearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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In long-running British soap opera Eastenders, the main square is home to what is known as the 'Bench of Tears',...
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Is it possible to bring divided communities together through food? Soil Association believes it is. And it’s bringing bunting, garden...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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Which came first: the chicken or this eggscellent idea? Ok, that was rhetorical. It's the chicken, obviously. Now for a real question:...
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Colombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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“I’m not trying to replace the system, but I think the system is missing an essential component, which is the...
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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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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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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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When you think about climate change, you’re likely to experience a range of emotions. Some of us naturally feel inspired...
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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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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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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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Shipping a container from China to South Africa costs the same amount as transporting it from South Africa to Malawi....
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In Uganda, Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga are the major sources of quality protein, in the form of various species...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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