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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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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This smart irrigation system helps farmers reduce their water footprint, control soil conditions and grow better crops with data and...
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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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Online exchange and interaction between young people around the world is now a part of our daily lives, but how...
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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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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 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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A lot of things we have are made from plastic. The synthetic material is used everywhere, but it also ends...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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During lockdown we discovered, among many other things, that we can make our own bread and that it’s possible to...
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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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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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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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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Some say the word ‘Bages’ comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. This probably isn’t true, but wine has...
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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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You can find rubber just about everywhere you look in modern society: tyres and protective clothing, household utensils and medical...
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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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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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“Without a healthy ocean, life as we know it would not exist.” For Farah Obaidullah of Women4Oceans, gender equality and...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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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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🎫 AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. “If you want to be Che Guevara, stop walking around pointing to...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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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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Fancy printing your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in a...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is all about – a...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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Renewable energy sources continue to improve and merge into mainstream use. One of the best examples of this is Barcelona-based...
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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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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon Cooper...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur behind Madiba & Nature, the Cameroonian nonprofit which uses plastic waste to build...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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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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Over a billion computers are in use worldwide. In developing communities, once they are no longer in use, or beyond...
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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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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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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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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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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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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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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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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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