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The Community Cooker

A recycling project turns rubbish into energy and potentially transforms slums into resource-rich communities.

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Around the World on a Wind and a Prayer

Swiss engineer Marc Muller has designed and built a solar and wind powered car that uses its photovoltaic panels during the day and a super lightweight wind generator called Icarus at night.

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Find Your Talent

Find Your Talent gives children and young people the chance to try out different cultural and creative activities.

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Working Wonders With Waste

Indian company Thunk, is making fashionable products out of discarded rubbish while supporting underprivileged communities.

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Forest to Reflourish

Recognising the need for ecological restoration, a local group in Scotland have set about transforming a barren valley.

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The Small Strokes of an Epic Adventure

An interview with Roz Savage; the first woman to row solo across the Pacific, from the United States to Papua New Guinea

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Eco Settlement Sets a Sustainable Standard

Construction of a groundbreaking low-impact village in Pembrokeshire is now underway, following unprecedented success with planning permission

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Sharing Sciences

Meteorologists and indigenous weather experts from the Nganyi people of western Kenya team up to protect crops

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Grow, Cook, Share

South Shropshire is helping local people to eat more fruit and vegetables, by integrating schools, communities and home-based gardeners with cookery training and a distribution scheme

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Green City Builds Prosperity for Palestine

A new sustainable development, 'Rawabi is designed to serve a generation of Palestinians coming of age and seeking welcoming surroundings to build families, careers and lives'

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Medicine for Warmer, Cheaper Living

The Green Doctors provide free advice on how to heat your house while reducing your environmental impact

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Guerrilla Cinema

Edinburgh Woodcraft Folk has teamed up with Alchemy Arts project to create a sustainable-bike-driven-mobile-cinema!

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World's Biggest Page Turner

Prestigious award given to school children creating 120 sq ft book about peace, featuring entries from the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela

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Britain's Largest Solar Roof

Over 1,000 electricity-generating solar panels form the UK's largest solar roof, being installed at Worthy Farm, home of the Glastonbury Festival.

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Cards with Perspective

World's first Fairtrade photographic postcards offer a creative way out of poverty

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Grow Heathrow Takes Off!

The Grow Heathrow initiative has been restoring an abandoned market garden to provide a source of locally produced, organic fruit and vegetables

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A Taste of Freedom

Surplus fruit is being salvaged by a new and highly inventive sustainability project

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Agricultural Solutions in Africa

Worldwatch senior researcher Danielle Nierenberg spent the last year touring over 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in search of agricultural innovations that are adaptive, sustainable and...

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Lot of Bottle Greenhouses

Plastic bottle greenhouses are inexpensive ways to protect winter crops, but they are also making use of resources that might otherwise go to landfill

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LEDs Light up Tanzania’s Homes

Illumination, a company selling solar LED lamps, are on a mission to replace the paraffin lanterns in Tanzania's 1.5 million homes

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