A French NGO housing charity in Brittany is creating its own small achievements using homeless builders to build tiny homes on wheels - which they get to live in.
Plastic: You Are What You Eat
Back to the Barges: London’s River Relived
Ugly Veg: Bonus or Beat-Up?
Fag-End Crows: Solving a Litter Problem
France Gets Greenly Serious
Plastic Tape Pests
A Meaty Issue
Solar Meadows: Definitive Eco-Power?
Sponge City Design: Yu Kongjian
As the climate warms, some regions suffer crippling drought, while others are hit by deadly floods. Often worst hit are urban areas which suffer catastrophic water damage and loss of life when engineered drainage is breached - but one pioneering Chinese architect thinks he has the solution to urban flooding: sponge cities.
Bottled Water: Climate Culprit
Turning Pineapples into T-Shirts: An Agri-Waste Solution
Shorthaul Flights: A Railway Solution?
Sweet Street Solution: Lithium-Sulphur batteries
Carbon Capture: A Rocky Problem?
Crocodile Rice: Food for Thought
Sea Change: S$1million Prize for Seashells
Warm Seas: Migrating Fish
There is plenty of hoohah about warming oceans and melting ice caps threatening our shoreline towns and cities. But what about the folks that live in the sea? How is the increase in sea temperature affecting them? It seems that, like humans, many species are moving away from threatened zones. It’s true - fish are emigrating.
Nutty Ideas: Organic Sanitisers from Cashew Waste
Plogging: the New Jogging
The Swedes have cornered the market in sustainable awareness catchphrases. Thunberg, flygskam, sustainable fashion – and now plogga.