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Light recipes for the farm of the future

Daan Roosegaarde's latest artwork highlights the value of agriculture

  • Technology
  • Natasha Berting
  • 22 Jan 2021

Harvesting clean energy, using rotten veg

Innovative new material could turn entire buildings into vertical solar farms

  • Energy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 01 Dec 2020

Buy Nothing on Black Friday 

And other ways to curb consumption this holiday season

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 26 Nov 2020

How New York City’s Armour is Being Transformed into Art

The Plywood Protection Project finds new use for boarded-up storefronts

  • Art
  • Natasha Berting
  • 19 Nov 2020
Beyond Plastic Bowls

A Whole World Beyond Plastic

Dave Hakkens' latest series is all about biodegradable materials

  • Sustainability
  • Natasha Berting
  • 07 Oct 2020

Style and sustainability for the new normal

Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 17 Jul 2020

CAN NATURE BE RESTORED?

Paola Antonelli and 'Broken Nature'

  • Art
  • What Design Can Do
  • 12 Mar 2020

Students present five perspectives on waste-free futures

Highlights from the HKU x WDCD minor programme Design for Social Change

  • Education
  • What Design Can Do
  • 12 Mar 2020

STUDENTS AGAINST WASTE

Introducing a generation of regenerative designers

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Edith Ault
  • 05 Nov 2019

No time to waste

How can we design solutions that deal with the dangers of consumption?

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Edith Ault
  • 24 Oct 2019

Change is calling, rethinking the smart in smartphone

Introducing Fairphone 3, the latest model of ethically produced smartphones

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Edith Ault
  • 04 Sep 2019

Raise Your Cup

How are we solving the issue of waste during the festival season?

  • Sustainability
  • Edith Ault
  • 06 Aug 2019

‘The challenge helped to turn our idea into a possible future’

Marjan van Aubel on her Climate Action Challenge winning project Power Plant

  • Energy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 23 Oct 2018

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure

How to hijack material flows and transform waste systems in the city

  • Sustainability
  • Natalja Heybroek
  • 25 Sep 2018

Great Bubble Barrier stops plastic drifting to sea

Amsterdam-based start-up wins €500.000 in Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2018

  • Industrial Design
  • Bas van Lier
  • 14 Sep 2018

Freitag gives animators ‘tarp blanche’

Animation studios produce visual interpretation of the Freitag story

  • Animation
  • Bas van Lier
  • 26 Jul 2018

Piles of information for a sustainable lifestyle

‘This is a good guide’ is filled with tips for a conscious life

  • Sustainability
  • Bas van Lier
  • 06 Jul 2018

Game changing designs from Milan

Inspiring design innovations for a better future from Milan Design Week 2018

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 19 Apr 2018

‘Design education is about critical thinking and experimentation’

Joel Towers, parting Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design, focused new curriculum on sustainable development and social engagement

  • Education
  • What Design Can Do
  • 29 Mar 2018

Better than meat

Vegetarian Butcher Jaap Korteweg links systemic change to economic success

  • Food
  • What Design Can Do
  • 14 Mar 2018

The fabric that turned Freitag into a brand

With the iconic bags now comes truly sustainable clothing from Freitag

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 09 Mar 2018

Dave Hakkens’ casual approach to moving communities

How Precious Plastic initiator Dave Hakkens attracts tens of thousands to plastic recycling

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 06 Mar 2018

What design does for the plastic problem

Fossil fuel industry investments set to rise plastics production by 40% in next decade

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 10 Jan 2018

Designers must educate their clients on sustainability

WDCD Live São Paulo 2017 report: Activation Session 9, Designing sustainable brands

  • Sustainability
  • pepijn
  • 11 Dec 2017

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