All year round, the Imagine5 team scours the world for exciting green developments and unexpected stories. Here’s what grabbed our attention in the last twelve months.
Photo: Bert van Beek
Illustration: Ruth Vissing
Photo: Evelyn Dragan / Connected Archives
3. You only need 25% of people to change the world.
When one in four of us embraces a new social norm, it’s enough to shift the rest.
Photo: James Bannister
Photo: Tao Yuan via Unsplash
5. China’s carbon emissions have been flat or falling for 18 month.
Yes you read that right.
Photo: Tobias Nicolai
6. Chefs in Copenhagen are making alt-chocolate from beer waste.
And 7-Eleven are already using it in their cookies.
Photo: Levon Biss
7. Stick insect eggs look like this.
Actually this is just one of numerous ‘designs’ – see more in our gallery.
Photo: Juan Oliphant
8. Sharks aren’t the monsters you think they are.
That’s according to Ocean Ramsey, pictured above swimming with one. She does this a lot.
Photo: Karsten Wurth / Unsplash
9. The Germans have a word for the feeling of being alone in the woods.
The folks who brought us wanderlust and schadenfreude have done it again.
10. There’s a place where people share photos of their favorite sticks.
No, you are not too old for this.

Focused on the wonderful world of rewilding, Volume 5 sees us get into the weeds – and go beyond the ferns – with our green-thumbed cover star Zach Galifianakis, walk with wolves in Slovenia, create a wilder world in Denmark, find meaning in fashion, and much, much more.

