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A new meeting place is weaving a culture of cycling into the fabric of everyday life in Tunisia – with women cyclists...
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See more"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
See moreGames can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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See moreA major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
See moreSomething important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
See moreInspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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See moreQuite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. https://vimeo.com/279623430...
See more🎫 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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See moreIn Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
See moreAsk anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
See moreImagine being able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is all about – a...
See moreA video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
See moreOne person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
See moreAre you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
See moreDo you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
See moreWhat if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
See moreThe charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur behind Madiba & Nature, the Cameroonian nonprofit which uses plastic waste to build...
See moreA festival in a coastline settlement in Lagos is challenging the notion of art in the white cube. Iwaya Community Art...
See moreIndia has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
See moreAt its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
See moreSubmitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
See moreThe Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
See moreLocated in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
See moreSubmitted by: Skateistan Waves for Change uses surfing to help children and young adults cope with the emotional and psychological stress...
See moreSubmitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
See moreLife used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
See moreSubmitted by: Skateistan Khrousar Thmey ('New Family' in Cambodian) is a school for children who are deaf or blind living in...
See moreStreet HeArt Africa brings life to walls in underprivileged communities. "We use our art as a way to connect people and...
See moreIf Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
See more'Forthright: Stronger than a weapon' – straight forward, direct – is a book and ongoing project that follows different artists in...
See moreSubmitted by you: Nigerian architect 'wole Olabanji believes that everyone deserves a nice home. However, most people in the African...
See moreGrowing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
See moreDuring Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
See moreA lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
See morePlastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses; Polli-Brick and Eco-Morph and the waste that it slashes; upcycled film theatres and recycled...
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 moreFrom plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
See moreEvery day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
See moreGames are everywhere, from the daily commute and at work, to in the pub over a pint. They forge friendships,...
See moreCan you imagine if voting was more representative of what people really want? Well, that‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina. Through...
See moreDubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of the...
See moreThe sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreThe Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
See moreRail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreSubmitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
See moreBuilt on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
See moreMexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
See moreThere is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
See moreThe popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
See moreThe number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
See moreIt bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
See moreAlmost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
See moreAs part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
See moreThere are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
See moreSubmitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
See moreIn March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
See moreSubmitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
See moreThe Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
See moreDomestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
See moreLatin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
See moreMany of Melbourne’s 70,000 trees are approaching the end of their useful life due to a combination of age and...
See moreHonestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
See moreAn unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
See moreBack in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
See moreThe digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
See moreMost of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
See moreWe’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
See moreMost major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
See moreOne billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
See moreWith a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
See moreBeside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
See moreToday’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
See moreEvery day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
See moreA new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
See moreA Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
See moreLaunched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
See moreIt is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
See moreTo give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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