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Eco-future

Imagine having the chance to reshape the future to be more in tune with the environment. That chance is now. These stories explore the ingenious ideas and solutions that arise when creativity, courage and knowhow come together.

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Why the climate will soon be starring in your favourite TV show
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The motley (star-studded) crew that paved the way for Norway’s EV revolution
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Turning trees into water:
Scenes from a Peruvian planting festival
Image of beautiful sea turtles

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Symbiosis

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She’s tackling cow burps – with seaweed

Interview

Kim Stanley Robinson on the power of climate fiction

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Here comes the sun
A woodcut illustration of a farmer pouring sewage from a bucket on to his crop field. In the background are high-rise tower blocks.

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The power of your poop

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Positive tipping points could save the climate – this man is showing us how

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Sacred river, modern world: Portrait of the Ganges

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The engineer turning waste into bricks

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“We stop to look at the pretty dress, but we don’t consider the stories behind it”

Curated

The end isn’t nigh.
Why we should be optimistic about the future

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Together forever:
The clothes we
love to live in

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Heirs of
the earth

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You got the look

Curated

The ‘solar punks’ turning their London street into a community power station

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5’s best photography of 2022

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The architect building houses from seaweed and shells

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“Telling your story is the most powerful thing you can do”

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The great gift shift

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The Moment:
The cheese lover reimagining vegan cheese

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The Moment:
“Let’s make pesticide-free garden plants the norm”

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Insects and the city:
Breeding bugs to fix the food chain

Curated

Just Stop Oil:
do radical protests turn the public away from a cause?

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No place like home

Curated

Guardians of
the deep

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Soon this will all be forest

Interview

The designer turning rocks, seaweed and mushrooms into amazing objects

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Can we make tap water cool again?
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Girl power: The climate fix that’s more effective than renewables

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Shit happens. So farmers are turning it into fuel

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Cool, smart and circular

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Would you want to be buried in a fungus coffin?

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Takeaway, not throwaway: The coffee cup you borrow and bring back

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10 eco resorts worthy of the name

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Impossible Foods’ founder: “Our ‘chicken’ tastes more like chicken than chicken”

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Sunlight and seawater: Growing food in the desert

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Can this ready meal brand make plant-based eating mainstream?

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The farm of the future

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21 things we learned in 2021

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The planet-friendly food innovations that just bagged a $2 million prize

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How UK towns are turning car-free travel into a game

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Upcycling the used plastic that clogs Nigeria’s waterways

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Fixing Fashion: the online community making mending cool

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Becoming a B Corp: Meet the businesses resolving to be a force for good

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Profit, meet purpose: The new way businesses are measuring success

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The cool companies making it easier to go green

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Cooking up a solution for food that goes unused

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The fashion insider fixing a broken industry – with algae

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The man with the bottle to take on the ocean plastic problem

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The rebel investors out to make a difference – not just a profit

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The brand new fabric made from your old jeans

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Air + sunshine = food. Really?
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This store is a plastic-free zone

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The future of food

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The startup that’s changing how the world sees coffee
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The community determined to make waves with seaweed

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The innovator bringing solar fridges to Nigeria’s markets

Podcast

Food waste: Vegetables aren’t all identical

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Food waste: Throwing the planet in the bin

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The end of trash

Curated

How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago

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The power to predict the rains
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The Palestinian inventor taking self-driving cars to uncharted territory

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Off the grid:
Meet the people leaving modern life behind

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Teaching computers how to feel

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What if human waste isn’t waste at all?
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Curated

The road less traveled to fusion energy
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