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No Waste Challenge Nominees: Delhi
On 27 May, we announced the 85 nominees of the What Design Can Do No Waste…
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No Waste Challenge Nominees: São Paulo & Rio
On 27 May, we announced the 85 nominees of the What Design Can Do No Waste…
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No Waste Challenge Nominees: Global
On 27 May, we announced the 85 nominees of the What Design Can Do No Waste…
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85 promising ideas for a world beyond waste
It’s official! Out of 1409 entries to the WDCD No Waste Challenge, 85 of the brightest…
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A Downing Street Disaster
Studio Birthplace has released a quirky and captivating new project in collaboration with Greenpeace UK. Wasteminster…
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‘The Earth feels and lives just like us’
For too long, indigenous knowledge has been underestimated and actively oppressed by the modern world. These…
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Past Challenge winners – where are they now?
After an extraordinary open call, the WDCD No Waste Challenge now moves into an exciting new…
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Supervisory Board members
What Design Can Do (WDCD) is looking for two new Supervisory Board members to start…
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No Waste Challenge receives a record-breaking 1409 entries
The open call for the WDCD No Waste Challenge is now officially closed! From bioplastic made…
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Urgent Conversations on Earth Day
According to the United Nations, the first Earth Day took place in 1970, when 20 million…
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Wekesa Zablon on his hyper-local approach to circularity
In Kenya’s capital, less than half of all the waste produced by the city’s 4 million…
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Six innovations taking on the plastic waste crisis
Experts predict that by 2050, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish. This is something…
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Protest Posters for the Global Climate Strike
On March 19, millions around the world will march (both virtually and physically) in support of…
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‘Climate change is the most challenging brief I’ve worked on’
Naresh Ramchandani has a way with words. As a young copywriter, he entered the advertising industry…
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Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women
By Coolhuntermx As with every year, March 8 marks International Women’s Day. This date is a…
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The link between waste & climate change, explained
At the core of our climate emergency is a planet that’s growing hotter and hotter by…
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Why waste is a socio-political issue
In the last few decades, waste has become a global environmental problem. We now live in…
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A mobile game that plants real trees
A game that’s gorgeous, fun, and that creates real-world change? Say hello to Birthplace. Part adventurous…
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How New York City’s Armour is Being Transformed into Art
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen revolutionary protests erupt in cities across the United States.…
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4 new books on the making of trash and treasures
Circular design guides, museum manifestos, and feminist poems about a warming planet; this fall is filled…
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Crisis Mapping the US Elections
When we first heard of Ushahidi, it was an open-source tool designed by hacktivists and journalists…
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The Smart App making Sao Paulo Cleaner and Safer
“Studying the behaviour of public transportation users may bring benefits for the safety of passengers as…
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Seventeen new toilets for Tokyo
Even in the world’s most modern metropoles, public toilets are often difficult to find. And once…
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No Place for Sex Trafficking
As social issues go, sex trafficking is as complex and insidious as they come. The crime…