We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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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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Although running events can be a strain on the environment, there are initiatives that are tackling food waste at catered...
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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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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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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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We hope you’re enjoying this holiday season! Whether you’re a fan of mulled wine and sweaters or a Santa hat...
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Dear explorers, It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that the 3rd edition of Fixing the Future Festival...
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Ecologist, research professor and world-renowned alien expert Montserrat Vilà joins us to discuss the fascinating story of what’s hiding in...
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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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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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? “A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” – Patrick Geddes The...
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The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) not only ensures that European eel populations stay healthy and able to fulfil their role...
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The ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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The Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers It's difficult to...
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Justdiggit unites with the collective power of the smallholder farmers and local communities in Africa, teaching powerful restorative agricultural techniques...
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? “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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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 combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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A youth network in the Mediterranean is flowing with ideas of how to solve the world’s water challenges. They’re the...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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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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No irrigation? No problem. These clever tree-planting cocoons can bring soil back to life and restore dry, dusty land back...
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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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A museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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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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An innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
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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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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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Tunisian water resources are especially scarce. Thanks to a farmer’s daughter, water recycling can be a valid solution for water preservation. ...
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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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Instead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
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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 startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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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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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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A group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
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In the state of Lousiana, the coastline abutting the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing at an alarming rate, due in...
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Every second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
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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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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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The simple act of riding a bike helps rural families with limited resources in Mozambique to irrigate their family plots....
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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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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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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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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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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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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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It’s predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans. Not content to sit back...
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In the extreme north of India, the harsh mountain area of the Trans-Himalaya is experiencing acute water shortages; the desert's...
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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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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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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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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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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 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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When the land you live in is arid and inhospitable, and it rains on average only two days a year,...
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Built on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
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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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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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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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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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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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