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Sustainability, Climate & Equality Stories From Around the World
Independent reporting, practical guides and original data tools for understanding environmental change — and what can be done about it.
Interviews & Conversations
Long-form conversations with artists, researchers, practitioners and people trying to build things differently.
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Who Will Build the Clean Energy Transition?
As clean-energy infrastructure expands, the workforce needed to install, maintain and modernise it may determine whether the transition succeeds.
Video interviews
Bruno Vinhas
Slow Art in a Fast World
Denise Carew
Slow Fashion and Caribbean Circularity
Joan Danziger
The Magical World
Explore Unsustainable
Three deep subject areas, each organised around practical routes rather than a pile of articles.
Waste & Circular Resources
Waste prevention, packaging, e-waste, reuse, recovery, circular systems and the data behind how countries manage waste.
Textiles & Fashion
Fibres, garment materials, fashion systems, product evaluation, care, repair, reuse and textile end of life.
Design & Buildings
Materials, construction, interiors, home performance, durability, resilience, reuse and adaptable buildings.
Unsustainable Data Explorers
Original interactive tools that turn large environmental datasets into something you can actually explore.
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Global Waste Data Explorer
Compare municipal solid waste across 217 countries and economies using World Bank What a Waste 3.0. Explore generation, composition, treatment, collection and projections from 2022 to 2050.
Regional Explorers
Looking specifically at Europe? Open the Europe Waste Data Explorer →
Features & Guides
A few of the deeper pieces worth spending time with.
Global Shoe Waste: What Happens to Old Shoes?
Where discarded footwear goes, why recycling is difficult and which interventions actually reduce waste.
A Guide to Sustainable Interior Design
Healthier materials, energy-smart upgrades, ethical sourcing and circular choices for lower-impact interiors.
Explore More Topics
Beyond our major guides and data tools, Unsustainable also covers climate, biodiversity, justice, travel, food, culture and more.
Climate
Climate science, impacts, adaptation and real-world responses.
Featured: Farming on Malawi’s Climate Front Line
Ecology & Biodiversity
Wildlife, ecosystems, restoration and the living world under pressure.
Featured: After the Rescue the Care Continues
Equality & Justice
Fairness, access, work, community and the human side of sustainability.
Travel
Tourism, transport, place and the environmental costs of movement.
Featured: A Lower-Impact European Rail Holiday
Also explore: Politics & Policy · Innovation & Technology · Food & Kitchen · Art & Culture · Gardening · Sustainable Living
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