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“When I take my little girl to the store, I always tell her buy what you need, not what you want! I must be the only shopkeeper who tells customers not to buy more!” This in a nutshell sums up Florence Tay’s passion. Her…

The housing sector uses 40 per cent of the planet’s total resources and represents more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Constructed primarily from locally-sourced, bio-based renewable materials, the module…

Gujarat, India’s westernmost state, is quickly becoming an industrial powerhouse. Companies that produce petro-chemicals, fertilizers and pharmaceutical products dominate the state’s economic landscape, providing jobs for…

Single-use plastic products – things like water bottles, straws, polystyrene plates – have become a ubiquitous in our modern lives. Researchers estimate that 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, and about…

Celebrations are underway in Mumbai, India where, on 27 May, thousands of participants took part in the 136th week of the World's Largest Beach Cleanup. Later that day, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and…

The city of Goma, which lies along the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has for decades been a hub of humanitarian operations in response to conflicts and natural disasters in the region, including…

Armed with bags, gloves, litter pickers and a strong sense of purpose, around 12,000 men, women and children got to work cleaning Britain’s streets, green spaces and beaches as part of a nationwide Great Plastic Pick Up…

What makes a city more resilient? In a world faced with the twin challenges of increasing urbanization and climate change, it is paramount to re-think cities so that they are able to face the pressures these changes will…

A rare novelty in the 1970s, plastic shopping bags are now an omnipresent global product, produced at a rate of one trillion a year. They are showing up in the darkest depths of the oceans to the summit of Mount Everest to…

The world is uniting against plastic waste. As we are shocked by images of marine life ensnared in plastic litter and alarmed by scientific studies showing how much plastic we are unknowingly consuming, we have seen a rush…