What have you changed for a healthier planet?
The swap you made that turned out better than what it replaced. We would love to print it, and the clever new ones you have found.
The forests that fit in a schoolyard
Tiny, dense, wild: pocket forests are springing up in 62 cities, and the children are doing the planting.
Ten minutes, shoes off
The newest research on feeling better is also the oldest advice in the world: go outside, take your shoes off, and stand on the earth for a little while.
The little docket that is leaving the till
The shiny receipt cannot be recycled and mostly is not read. An Australian inventor is retiring it, and you can help at any checkout.
The basketball courts that drink the storm
In Queens, New York, the neighbourhood's brightest new courts have a secret: when the big rain comes, they swallow it.
Type in your postcode, find out what belongs there
Two free Australian things: a tool that knows what will thrive in your patch, and volunteers who will come and look at your garden.
The beauty counter learns to refill
The loveliest new habit in beauty is the one our grandmothers had all along, keep the container.
Fix it, find it, or borrow it
A new right to repair arrived across Europe this week, and a whole generation was already there waiting.
Give the food that needs eating its own shelf
An Australian idea so simple it sounds like nothing, and in a household trial it cut food waste by 40 per cent.
The green bin that becomes a paddock
Food scraps across New South Wales are about to start a far better second life.
The science that needs your backyard
A phone, a window and ten minutes are enough to make you part of the research.
The quiet heater that keeps winning winter
Four years running, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States.
The library where you borrow a drill instead of buying one
Libraries are lending the things we only need sometimes, and the idea is spreading.
Doctors are prescribing birdsong, and the wilder the better
The newest medicine on the scripts pad is a walk somewhere green and alive.
The solar panel that hangs off the balcony rail
Three million German homes are plugging straight into the sun, no roof required.
The cafes where broken things get a second chance
Free community cafes are mending toasters, jeans and chairs, and the only payment is a smile.
The quiet joy of rewilding your garden
Mow a little less and plant a few natives, and any backyard can draw around seventy percent more bees and butterflies.
Plastic Free July: small swaps, big wave
An Australian born movement now reaching millions, one easy swap at a time. Perfect timing to give it a go this month.
£1bn for community owned clean energy
The UK's new Local Power Plan is its biggest ever public investment in locally owned wind and solar, so profits flow straight back to neighbourhoods.