«To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.»
– Buckminster Fuller
Sustainia – Building the world of tomorrow
Sustainia is a think tank and consultancy headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. We identify readily available sustainability solutions across the world and demonstrate their potential impacts and benefits in our work with cities, companies, and communities....
Sharing economy – a sustainable economic ecosystem
The Sharing Economy is a socio-economic ecosystem built around the sharing of human, physical and intellectual resources. It includes the shared creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services by different people and...
Researchers accidentally turn carbon dioxide into ethanol
Science has a long and storied history of looking for one thing but finding something better instead. Penicillin, radioactivity, science boxes…I mean microwave ovens — all of these discoveries came in the the search for...
The Interlace – a community designed building
The Interlace is a large residential complex in Singapore consisting of a series of apartment blocks stacked diagonally across one another. German architect Ole Scheeren designed the project. Each of the apartment blocks is six...
Tomorrowland – a large music festival and a global happening
Tomorrowland is a large music festival held in Belgium. Tomorrowland has been organized since 2005 and has become one of the most notable global music festivals. Tomorrowland has transformed a local playground into a global...
Burning Man Festival – A network of dreamers and doers
Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having created unbelievable artistic...
Future Crunch fosters intelligent, optimistic thinking for the future
We’re part of a global movement of scientists, technologists, hackers and creatives that think there are new and better ways of doing things in the 21st century. Incredible things are happening on our planet. Diseases...
Gaia – the Netflix of conscious media
Stream online videos for your mind, body and soul. Your intuition tells you there’s more to our story, something you’re not finding in your current paradigm. You can feel it in your bones. We are...
Visionary Art – transcending the physical world
Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. Visionary art often carries themes of...
Guangzhou Infinitus Plaza focuses on environmental sustainability
Zaha Hadid Architects recently broke ground on the Guangzhou Infinitus Plaza, a modern mixed-use campus that combines intelligent technologies with environmental sustainability. Designed with the sweeping curvaceous lines and futuristic appearance that the architecture firm...
BIEN – Basic Income Earth Network
A basic income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement. That is, a basic income has the five following characteristics: Periodic: it is paid...
Humanity’s Team, a global spiritual movement
Humanity’s Team is a global spiritual movement whose purpose is to embody the timeless truth of Oneness, which is essential for responding to the world’s most chronic and acute challenges, and vital for creating a...
A New Education Model for Humanity
All human beings are born creators. If you don’t believe me, I urge you to recall when you were a child. Didn’t you love to paint and dance and sing? Didn’t you love to indulge...
Positive.News = constructive journalism
We are providing quality reporting that focuses on progress and possibility. Owned by our readers and journalists worldwide, Positive News is also the first global media cooperative financed through crowdfunding. As a magazine and a...
The Parliament of the World’s Religions
The Parliament of the World’s Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just,...
Compassion Games International
Compassion Games International offers fun and creative ways to ignite and catalyze compassionate action in communities around the world. In the five annual Compassion Games, competition becomes coopetition as teams and individuals challenge one another...
DemocracyOS is an open source voting platform
Many of the so-called modern democracies still run the same way they did almost two centuries ago: as citizens we only get to interact with the political system once every couple of years. In an...
openDemocracy free thinking for the world
What is openDemocracy? openDemocracy is an independent global media platform publishing up to 60 articles a week and attracting over 8 million visits per year. Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, openDemocracy...
Low-carbon success stories to inspire
Proven low-carbon solutions available for countries to choose from. See the solutions here. The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra has teamed up in 2016 with the Nordic Council of Ministers and distinguished institutions from all the...
15 Nordic solutions can cut 4 gigatons of global emissions
By scaling up just 15 proven Nordic solutions, countries all over the world can save 4 Gt of emissions every year by 2030 which is as much as the EU produces today. The costs for...
Electrifying car runs on saltwater – Quantino
With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current battery systems. It doesn’t plug in to recharge the way...