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RCA graduate Kosuke Araki has created a range of tableware from recycled food waste.

Lei is an entirely self-sufficient aroma diffuser, powered only by the heat and gentle flame of a small candle. The generated power from the flame turns the propeller, which creates a light breeze that permeates your space with aromas from essential oils. Lei means "zero" in Japanese and

C'est un retour au temps long qui attire de plus en plus de voyageurs. Et la coopérative Sailcoop, qui veut faire des voiliers une alternative durable à l'avion, ne s'y trompe pas. Depuis le 6 mai, elle met le cap sur la Corse depuis Toulon. En quelques jours, son carnet de réservation s'est rempli à une vitesse folle, signe d'un engouement pour des mobilités plus sobres.

ford engineers have produced footrests and car boots using recycled olive tree waste and fibers and are now exploring mass production.

In an effort to combat the plastic waste crisis, biotech startup Sway has created a seaweed-based alternative to plastic packaging.

Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places

Depuis le début du confinement, face à l'absence de réactivité des pouvoirs publics marseillais, plusieurs groupes de citoyens organisent des collectes et des distributions de nourriture au profit des (...)

Face aux Deliveroo et autres Uber Eats qui se développent dans le secteur de la livraison de repas à domicile, des coursiers à vélo s'auto-organisent dans de nombreuses villes européennes avec la volonté (...)

Image 11 of 57 from gallery of Innovative Self-Sustaining Village Model Could Be the Future of Semi-Urban Living. Photograph by EFFEKT

‘per unit area this approach sequesters up to 30 times more carbon per year than rainforests,’ says brilliant planet co-founder raffael jovine.

Way better than normal blocks, y'all.

Returns process thought to cost firms about £7bn a year and weigh heavily on companies’ carbon footprints

Patagonia emphasizes ethics.

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.

We highlight small-scale case studies of degrowth in action, as academics and activists place greater emphasis on the model as the way forward for fashion.

Decentralized collectives are enabling “consumer-creators” to build their own fashion brands and music labels from the ground up—and share in the profits.

Eight Pacific countries created a revolutionary system that brings in $500m a year and prevents the overfishing that blights other regions

Lulu dans ma rue a remis au goût du jour la conciergerie, en la rendant accessible à l’échelle d’un ...

Gavin Munro of Derbyshire-based Full Grown tells Shane Hickey how moulding trees into one-piece chai...

Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing how networked technologies can strengthen a city’s social fabric

Cambridge University scientists develop a device to ‘defossilise’ the economy using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide

An on-call team at Amritsar’s tree hospital nurses sick neems and gives new life to troubled banyans

Natural aquatic supplement could be used to make up for lack of key vitamin B12 in plant-based diets

We all have heard the phrase ‘Time is Money’. But it seems like Switzerland has taken a step further in actually applying this concept seriously! Read on as we bring to you, the Time Bank.

Central Saint Martins graduates Brigitte Kock and Irene Roca Moracia have created a range of concrete-like tiles that give new "economic and ecological" value to invasive species.

bioMATTERS' MYCO-ALGA is a sustainable interior tiling system crafted from 3D-printed mycelium, algae, and upcycled natural and organic waste.

dasha tsapenko celebrates her wedding with a gown grown from mycelium and vintage linen lace, reinterpreting ukrainian wedding traditions.

igreen gadgets' compostable iPhone cover has a water-soluble protective film, and when the case decomposes, the seeds are planted.

Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. At the UK’s first ever zero waste restaurant, all materials are digestible by us or ‘Bertha’ – its communal compost machine.

the growing process of k. rhaeticus bacteria is optimized to weave a hybrid material that is not only strong but also lightweight.