People

Human beings who believe, inspire us and make things happen. They are women, men and children. They are real life heroes, people living right next door, or sitting beside us on the bus

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Believe Amazon

A 66-year-old man with a mustache and white hair, a bit bald. He wears glasses and a short-sleeved purple polo shirt. His forearm is resting on a table and his hands are clasped together. He smiles, looking to his left. In the background is a living room with a sofa, a large wooden table and a large, leafy green plant.

Carlos Nobre: The Amazonian intelligence

By Mariana Della Barba São Paulo, Brazil

A black man, his hair almost completely shaved, is wearing jeans, a purple T-shirt and a green vest. In his left hand, he holds a seedling in a temporary, plastic planter and smiles at the camera. He is sitting on a metal structure among rows of seedlings.

Charles Batte: The boy who thought big

By Fabíola Ortiz Kampala, Uganda

Believe Women

A black woman is wearing a blue necklace with a large golden medallion and, on her head, a blue, purple, red and white print scarf. She is also wearing a shirt or dress that matches her colorful scarf, and over it, a black sweater. She is smiling at the camera. She is in the center of the photo, with the background out of focus.

Hindou Ibrahim: Women’s leadership in Chad

By Fabíola Ortiz N'Djamena, Chad

A thin, white man with straight, blond hair is smiling at the camera. He is standing with his arms folded. He wears a black wool sweater with red and white stripes across the chest. In the background is part of a walkway lined with trees.

Daan Roosegaarde: Turning pollution into art

By Cibele Reschke Beijing, China

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Radwa Rostom: Giving dignity back to the homeless

By Daniele Zebini Cairo, Egito

A woman facing the left side of the photo looks at the camera and smiles. She has white skin, straight brown hair, and wears a colorful circular earring and a white tank top. In the background, a valley of grassy ground and, in the background, the countenance of a hill and the blue-gray sky.

Thais Corral: Female power for a sustainable planet

By Mariana Della Barba São Paulo, Brazil

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Dispatches

Transformative actions and innovative projects around the planet mapping the route to new and possible futures

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Two small, black girls are holding hands, their backs to the camera. They're crossing a small, wooden bridge onto a green lawn. The darker-skinned girl, who is on the left side, has her hair tied into a ponytail, with a white ribbon on top. She wears a white dress with a colorful pattern, as well as pale green shoes. Her left arm is outstretched. Her companion, to her right, is a lighter-skinned black child whose hair is divided into braids, a hot pink ribbon-shaped barrette on the end of each one. She wears a black dress with a pink and white pattern, and pink trim. Her shoes are also pink. The pink in the barrette, dress and shoes is the same shade.

How to educate children for gender equality

By Giovana Romano Sanchez New York, United States

Neo Mondo

On a white background, the upper left corner of the photo shows part of the surface of a mango, with yellow skin with green blotches. To the right is another mango that occupies almost the entire image. It has been peeled and cut into squares that are still attached to the pit. Its pulp is shiny and has a deep, dark yellow color.

Brazil is using nanotechnology to make plastic from mango pits

By Eleni Lopes Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

diver on the blue sea background with a Coral Watch card analyzing the corals. Below it, a set of whitish corals

Journey to the underwater sanctuary

By Camila Gomes Brisbane, Austrália

Two young men are looking at the camera. The one on the right holds up a tomato in his left hand. They are wearing white t-shirts with prints on them, their image is out of focus. In the back is a glass ceiling and, on the left corner of the photo, some tomato plants bearing fruit.

Aquaponics made easy

By Ana Krepp Barcelona, Spain

Clean Seas

The photo shows round tables and shelves arranged on a tiled, gray colored floor. The furniture is made of light-colored wood and is displaying kitchen products and foods stored in clear jars with white and orange tops. There are small vases with bright pink flowers around the place. On the ceiling, tubular glass lamps are connected to each other by orange wires. The walls are sand colored, with the exception of one in the back, in the left corner of the photo, that has a blueish-gray tone.

The Sustainable Market: How zero-waste shops work

By Juliana Guarany Berlin, Germany

Young Indian boys march together, holding a white banner written “#GreenArmy #Indepandance #ModelSchool," along with other signs cut-off at the edges of the photo, and with drawings of recycling receptacles. Some are wearing white shirts and dark green berets with a red tuft, while others are wearing light blue shirts and dark blue shorts. Three of the boys wearing white shirts are smiling to the camera, and one of them is also holding a poster with the words "zero waste, zero warming." The boys in the background are looking straight ahead, some of them holding posters with writing that is out of focus. The camera is to the right of the march.

A victory for the villagers

By Carolina Oms Thiruvananthapuram, Índia

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Solutions

Accessible science to reverse the climate crisis and build the planet we want. The topics were inspired by Paul Hawken’s work "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming."

Energy

To the path of a world where energy is clean and renewable

Energy

Food

The food production chain: from problem to solution

Food

Women

Gender equality is good for everyone and important for the planet

Women

Cities

Planning and innovation to change urban centers

Cities

Earth

The impacts of using natural resources differently

Earth

Transportation

Taking people and things from one place to another without. destroying the way

Transportation

Materials

Strategies for reducing, reusing and recycling what we produce

Materials

UN Goals

The world has a common agenda: the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to be achieved by 2030. Everything we report contributes to this agenda

1No poverty read more

2Zero hunger read more

3Good health and well-being read more

4Quality education read more

5Gender equality read more

6Clean water and sanitation read more

7Affordable and clean energy read more

8Decent work and economic growth read more

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure read more

10Reduce inequalities read more

11Sustainable cities and comunities read more

12Responsible consumption and production read more

13Climate Action read more

14Life bellow water read more

15Life on land read more

16Peace, justice and strong institutions read more

17Global Partnerships read more

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