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The architectural storyteller finds inspiration in sci-fi.

Everyone is essential for the recovery and co-creation of post covid19 neighbourhoods, towns and cities.

The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.

Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic growth imperatives spurring consumption by changing structures and culture towards safe and just systems.

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Togo built a fully digital cash transfer programme serving over 12% of the population from scratch in just 10 days in response to COVID-19. The programme pays out more to women than to men and it has

Yesterday, Jeremy Till (who I’m proud to say was at one point my university tutor) shared with me a link to this extraordinary interview…

Indonesia’s poverty reduction program also reduced deforestation by 30 percent, researchers say.

I hear the following more often than I would like from some of my fellow educators: “My students can’t or won’t discuss climate change. They’re too privileged/preoccupied with their phones/ju…

At least a quarter of the world’s land area is owned, managed, used or occupied by indigenous peoples and local communities. While nature in these areas is degrading less quickly than in others, the impact of climate and ecosystem change has a direct impact on local livelihoods.

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Comment: Delphine Gibassier of Audencia Business School says Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics model, adopted by Amsterdam and in France, shows how business can stay within planetary and social

Solar Cities

Cities around the world are seeing dwindling numbers of fossil-fuel powered cars on their streets, and many are planning to keep it that way after lockdowns ease.

The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the plight of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution. As countries battle to protect their populations and

Get lost amongst the trees of If Not Us Then Who?s video library. Hundreds of videos filmed in forests from Peru to Panama welcome audiences into the lives of the world’s tree-defending indigenous communities. Welcome to the jungle...

Every April fashion and ethics go hand in hand in Fashion Revolution Week. From Bolivia to Haiti people ask #whomademyclothes?" and campaign to stop bad practices.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the flaws and risks in a supposedly sustainable model of travel. The crisis may push ecotourism advocates to consider new strategies.

By Bill Baue and Ralph Thurm

By Bill Baue & Ralph Thurm

It should be no surprise that I’m obsessed with science fiction. Considering that I’m both a graphic designer and work in cryptocurrency…

There's an exuberance of energy on the surface of the Earth. As Georges Bataille suggested “[…]there is generally no growth but a luxurious squandering of energy in every form!" This excess of energy is stored in things. However, our production systems dissipate this energy willingly and catastrophically through institutional infrastructures, activities and organisations that fail to reinvest things within recuperative regimes or frameworks. We have failed to notice that matter can be designed to persevere. Persistent Things interrogates how we can change our relationship to materials to ensure they persist over time.

/PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), a new poll of U.S. Millennials and Gen Z, conducted by communications firm...

Millennials, or people born between 1981 and 1996, make up the largest portion of the world population and have different traits than other generational cohorts.

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.

The Senakw development aims to ease the city’s chronic housing crisis – and to challenge the mindset that indigeneity and urbanity are incompatible

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based in chile, zerocabin seeks to mimic naturally occuring systems, orienting its PV panel-clad roof like a leaf toward the sun.

In November 2019, the Slovenian parliament passed a motion to adopt an EIT Climate-KIC-led proposal called "A Deep Demonstration of a Circular, Regenerative and Low-Carbon Economy in Slovenia." The initiative is one of eight Deep Demonstrations launched by EIT Climate-KIC, which together offer a test bed environment for the ambitious, "1.5-consistent systems transitions" called for by IPCC reports, activists, national and European policy.