Evocco’s Hugh Weldon selected Young Champion of the Earth
Winner of WDCD Climate Action Challenge receives UN’s highest environmental honour
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Why not use our pavements and roads to generate energy?
Energy producing floor tiles and solar roads could solve energy issues in the city
Great Bubble Barrier stops plastic drifting to sea
Amsterdam-based start-up wins €500.000 in Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2018
Portable motherboard for rural housing
Carlo Ratti Associati develops smart core for DIY houses in India
‘Our research helps designers to excel’
STBY elaborates on the research behind the WDCD Clean Energy Challenge
‘Our aim is to empower design communities worldwide’
WDCD Clean Energy Challenge puts focus on five world cities
Should we forbid ads that contribute to climate change?
Do The Green Thing wants debate on servicing brands that cause climate change
What does surprise look like?
Self-commissioned research by Studio Hellicar into human expression
‘We’re creating the future of fabrics’
Suzanne Lee (Modern Meadow) announces launch of bio-leather in coming year
Freitag gives animators ‘tarp blanche’
Animation studios produce visual interpretation of the Freitag story
Piles of information for a sustainable lifestyle
‘This is a good guide’ is filled with tips for a conscious life
Waste of the world
Kadir van Lohuizen’s waste project now on view in Amsterdam
Challenge winners are actually helping refugees
On World Refugee Day an update on the WDCD Refugee Challenge finalists
‘WDCD will bring Mexico new ways of thinking’
Interview with Javier López Casarín, founder of the Reinventing Mexico Foundation
How to make teenagers care about sustainability?
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Transformative Experience Design
‘We need design to address sexual exploitation of minors’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop No Minor Thing
‘We must rethink the way we design our world’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 1
WDCD launches third annual event in Mexico City
WDCD teams up with the Reinventing Mexico Foundation to present WDCD Mexico City in May 2019
WDCD’s new book focusses on ‘Designing Activism’
Fourth publication of WDCD presents 31 Designers Fighting for a Better World
Branding Toolkit helps social entrepreneurs
‘Brand the Change’ by Anne Miltenburg aims at change makers and disruptors
A cultural corridor reviving the city
How Ana Elena Mallet built one of the biggest cultural festivals of Mexico City
Tricked into sexual exploitation
Public prosecutor reflects on WDCD’s new challenge on sexual exploitation of children
10,000 New Sheltersuits For The Homeless
Bas Timmer wants to provide Sheltersuits for all the refugees in Lesbos
Sunny Bergman makes us face our prejudices
Filmmaker and activist Sunny Bergman takes action as a consequence of her work