Six of the biggest advertising firms, WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic Group, Havas, Dentsu and Publicis, have shared the stage at Cannes with former UN ...
Rap helps sell the SDGs
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are instrumental in building resilience and making the world more sustainable, but it is sometimes hard to ...
MIT’s Solve competition fights food & water challenges
The Solve competition, a contest organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), wants to promote cost-efficient food production closer to ...
Google maps wheelchair accessibility more thoroughly
Google is planning to crowdsource data from 30 million Local Guides globally to make their maps tool more useful to people with mobility challenges. The ...
Chicago finally close to being the City of Learning
When Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the Chicago City of Learning online platform (CCOL) four years ago, it was to offer extracurricular activities to ...
Navajo Nation now provides electricity to 13,000 homes with own project
According to recent reports, the Navajo Nation’s first utility-scale solar energy project, the Kayenta Solar Facility near Monument Valley, is now ...
ACE launches one-stop centre for startup growth
The Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) has launched the ACE International Centre, a dedicated one-stop centre to support startups in ...
Package-free shops & and the movement against plastic
As a response to concerns about plastic pollution and food waste, package-free shops have opened across the world from Copenhagen to Montreal. Unsatisfied ...
Winners of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards announced
The INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards have been some of the most sought after design awards since 2013. This year, the winners improve the world of ...
First ‘forest city’ build in China
China is quite ambitious when it comes to implementing new urban mega-projects. ‘Liuzhou Forest City’, a new city project will attempt at ...
