Environment

Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.

Whether it relates to Quinoa (this story) or other commodities heavily consumed in developed countries —such as coffee— it is useful to explore questions of sustainability in the context of ever more complex supply chains.

When Ireland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the government saw an opportunity to enact a smart carbon tax that would benefit not only the economy but also the environment.

The new loosely organized online lobbyists are becoming a political force. Are they succeeding?

In 2011, Lufa Farms built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse. Through innovation and technology, the Montreal-based initiative has been working on changing the way cities eat.

Quality education and the nordic model: how it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity

What are the real solutions to climate change? Here we explore the substantial risks of geoengineering technologies in a context where underlying behaviours remain unchanged.

After years of economic decline, the Japanese, animated by the principles of perfection, specialization, craft and obsession that they have long brought to their own culture, are now applying the same standards to craft.

Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions that make society move.