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Innovation

Innovation examines emerging ideas, technologies, and creative approaches that push sustainability forward. This section focuses on the thinkers, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs working to solve environmental challenges through new tools and systems.

From renewable energy breakthroughs to circular design strategies, these stories explore experimentation, early-stage concepts, and transformative models that could reshape how we live and produce. It’s a space for curious readers who want to follow what’s next — and how innovation can be directed toward a more equitable and resilient future.

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Impact Investing 101: Helping the Planet & Earning a Return

October 22, 2023May 13, 2021 by Brett Stadelmann

With the rise of more sustainable businesses and organizations has come an increase in the number of impact investments available.

Categories Innovation
city at night across water

Understanding the Importance of Eco-Friendly Solutions in Public Space Design

November 20, 2025November 21, 2020 by Lilly Miller

Design-wise, times are changing: More and more eco-friendly solutions are being developed & implemented in the sphere of public space design.

Categories Innovation Tags Architecture, Carbon, Design, Environment, Sustainability
Modular house

Modular Construction: More Efficient, More Environmental

April 25, 2024October 30, 2020 by Daniel Gray

Greater focus on sustainability in recent years has led architects and builders to put the environment in focus with their creations.

Categories Innovation Tags Architecture, Ecology, Environment, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Energy Remote

How Remote Working Contributes to Energy Conservation

October 22, 2023October 23, 2020 by DebD

Remote working offers, amongst other benefits, the general sense of satisfaction that one is having a beneficial impact on the environment.

Categories Innovation Tags Carbon, Economics, Environment, Lifestyle, Sustainability
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Simple Switch: Ethical Shopping as the New Normal

October 22, 2023August 24, 2020 by Brett Stadelmann

Sustainable Shopping: New ethical Amazon alternative Simple Switch is raising money to make exploitation obsolete.

Categories Innovation Tags Economics, Equality, Ethics, Lifestyle, Plastic, Reforestation
Farmer with cotton harvest

Stitch by Stitch: With Kutch Weaving and Kala Cotton Fabric

October 22, 2023August 2, 2020 by Brett Stadelmann

Stitch by Stitch: A socially responsible textile brand committed to working with sustainable materials while supporting marginalized communities.

Categories Innovation Tags Asia, Cotton, Ecology, Economics, Equality, India, Organic, Organic farming, Pesticides, Poverty
Bird's eye view of green fields

How to Select the Right Sustainability Certification Program for Your Organization

October 22, 2023June 26, 2020 by David Goodman

A Guide to Sustainability Certification: 8 Criteria that will help you to Select the Right Sustainability Certification Program for Your Organization.

Categories Innovation Tags Economics, Ethics, Sustainability
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Thinking Huts Launches First ‘Building Minds Project’ in Madagascar

October 22, 2023June 21, 2020 by Brett Stadelmann

Thinking Huts, an innovator in humanitarian technology, aims to provide quality education infrastructure faster, at a lower cost, and with decreased waste.

Categories Innovation Tags Design, Education, Poverty
Vials containing biofuels

Are Biofuels Our Future?

October 22, 2023June 8, 2020 by Giles Kirkland

Biofuels are a hot topic amongst those in the know at the moment, especially as they offer a more sustainable and carbon-neutral alternative to traditional fuels.

Categories Innovation Tags Carbon, Climate, Pollution, Renewables, Sustainability, Travel, Waste
Uneako founders at garbage tip

Uneako: An Innovative Approach to Pollution and Poverty

October 22, 2023June 6, 2020 by Brett Stadelmann

Pollution and poverty—two critical issues, affecting people the world over, that Uneako founders Ankit and Atul Tripathi are taking steps to address.

Categories Innovation Tags Plastic, Pollution, Poverty, Recycling, Renewables, Sustainability
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