“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Projects
Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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Join the wildest egg hunt on Earth, count penguins, chicks and eggs and help Oxford researchers understand the lives of...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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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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A suburb in San José granted citizenship to pollinators and declared itself a sanctuary for bees. Welcome to Curridabat. ...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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Plant a seed, build a kite, and connect with the land at Aurora de Las Sierras. Analaura Antúnez and...
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Reversing the extinction crisis is perhaps the most important challenge of our time, and Rewilding Argentina is responding with a strength...
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Ecocean are dedicated to protecting - no prizes for guessing - ecologies of the ocean. Experts in the art of...
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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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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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LA Green Grounds makes the world more edible one garden at a time, and in doing so turns urban food...
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Australian start-up Flow is bringing beekeeping to the masses with their Flow Hive that reduces stress both for bees and...
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The Bambara groundnut has been farmed for centuries, but if you don’t live in sub-Saharan Africa it is nearly impossible...
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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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Justice, conservation, wilderness; soulful, ancestral, unconsumable – these are not words usually associated with the fashion industry. But The Lissome...
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An ethical women's enterprise is creating vegan soaps that use plastic-free packaging made from a natural waste material that is...
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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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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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What if we could rethink, reimagine, remake the world of fashion? Inequality, injustice, pollutants and waste – the fast...
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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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Building on the trust and popularity of museums, this NY-based climate museum bakes action into everything it does, inspiring the...
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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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In the Greek islands, a community of 'water allies' is working to solve the problems of water supply, wastewater and...
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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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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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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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Aware that Detroiters of African descent have never lacked creativity or entrepreneurial zeal, one Detroiter wants to provide the one...
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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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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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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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When Guzel Sanzhapova, the founder and owner of Cocco Bello Bow Ties, decided to start producing creamy honey with berries...
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Are you helping to build a fair fashion sector?Are you a fashion-lover working on ways to reimagine how we produce what we...
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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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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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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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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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Now your baby can look like an eco-friendly sumo wrestler, but, more importantly, provide an alternative to disposable diapers. 17...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that irate grandmas are not to be messed with. Watch out, then, for the...
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The streets of Portugal are being turned into vibrant canvases as ‘wrinkle wall writers’ get to grips with spray cans;...
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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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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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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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“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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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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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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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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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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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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'Forthright: Stronger than a weapon' – straight forward, direct – is a book and ongoing project that follows different artists in...
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Submitted by you: Nigerian architect 'wole Olabanji believes that everyone deserves a nice home. However, most people in the African...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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The 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...
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Good news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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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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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term cyberspace. He also forewarned of brain microchips in the year...
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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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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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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“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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