Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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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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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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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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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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Together we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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As our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
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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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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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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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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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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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It was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
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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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LitFilmFest wants to help kids save the day, write the future and appear on the giant cinema screen. The film festival is designed...
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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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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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Millions of amputees worldwide live with the loss of a limb, especially in developing countries that don’t often have access...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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In 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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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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Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee is a t-shirt with guts. The ‘smart’ garment projects biology onto children in order to teach them about anatomy. Described by...
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The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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Submitted by you: Actual News reimagines the way we find, consume, interact with, pay for and follow up on news...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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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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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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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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Submitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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We have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
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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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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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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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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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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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Head to Zooniverse and you’ll find ordinary people helping scientists to identify galaxies, explore historical records, or in the case...
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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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