Month: April 2019

Puffins on Skomer Island. Photograph: Josh Gray, @joshgrayphoto Earlier this year, radio and TV producer Mary Colwell launched a petition to the government, calling for the development of a GCSE…

“Even better than humans’: Elephant Haven’s love the elephants is all-enduring.. Picture: Isabella Juskova, Unsplash Earlier this month, the story of the elephant killed in a circus truck accident on…

This site is about the projects and groups tackling some of the planet’s most pressing issues. They’re doing it in energetic, super-inspiring ways, giving hope and demonstrating that change is…

Music in the Good Chance theatre dome in the Calais Jungle. AFP Photo/Philippe Huguen via www.yahoo.com From 2015 to 2016, a refugee camp known as the Calais Jungle grew up…

A new bank is open in the former Co-Op Bank on Hoe Street in Walthamstow. HSCB (Hoe Street Central Bank) is part of Bank Job, a project and documentary film…

Challenging stereotypes: the ‘Rapper’ (right) in conversation with a reader at a Human Library, Copenhagen, 2000. Picture: Human Library. If a play could be that powerful, imagine what meeting one…

Challenge everything: the Disruptive Innovation Festival The DIF invites people to share disruptive ideas and stories, inspiring action towards a truly circular economy Read More Scientists and inventors are finding…

We’re looking for ideas and feedback, writers and photographers, mentors and volunteers, people lovers, animal lovers and plant lovers. We’re looking for a community of like-minded spirits to help save…

Borneo’s orang-utan population has declined by more than half since 1999 due to palm oil production and logging. Picture: Sky News. Of all the imagery to emerge around palm oil,…

The welcome rise of vegan beauty For those scaling back on meat and dairy, smearing animal products over their faces and bodies seems counter-intuitive, Read More Travel and ethics: welcome…