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Green living
A hot new buzzword is green living. How do you live a sustainable lifestyle?
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Making the economy sustainable
Creating a climate-neutral economy poses big economic opportunities, but it will take bold action.
Sustainable food startups booming in Germany
Entrepreneurs in Germany are tapping into a growing market for vegan foods.
Sustainable fashion from garbage
Javier Goyeneche from Spain upcycles waste for his Ecoalf label.
Welcome to the latest edition of Eco Africa
This week: Protecting the Mara River in Tanzania, caring for elephants in Kenya, tackling e-waste in Rwanda — and more!
Eco India – The Environment Magazine
Women as actors in social change and sustainable living.
The persistence of plastic
Plastic — it’s forever, quite literally, as it only breaks down into ever-smaller pieces. Worldwide, communities are seeking solutions to this persistent problem. Rome is rolling out an inventive idea for how to manage used plastic bottles in its subways. A Rwandan DW journalist talks about how Africa's plastic bag bans are faring. Plus, single-use plastic in the medical sector — what can be done?
Toilets for her
The Ti Toilets organization in Pune transforms discarded buses into public toilets for women.
Dining pleasure with zero waste
The Berlin restaurant Frea is for people with a green conscience who want to eat well.
Luxembourg makes public transport free
The small EU hub aims to boost tram, train and bus usage and rid itself of traffic jams blamed on commuter car use.
Living Planet: Greening spaces
The role of sports in fighting climate change, sugarcane waste as a replacement for firewood and the sound of soil.
Climate migration
Climate change is forcing Indian farmers to seek work in cities. Could sustainable farming help?
Living Planet: 'Green churches'
From sermons about climate justice to carbon-neutral church halls, a growing number of churches are going green.
Living Planet: Cleaning up soccer
Real Betis became the first club to official join the Climate Neutral Now initiative. So how's the club cleaning up?
Living in a steel box
A designer duo in Pune turns shipping containers into eco-friendly homes.
Solar power comes to off-grid Africa
Solar power brings economic opportunities to a remote Malian village.
Work Places: The return of jute and hemp
German and Bangladeshi farmers are hoping jute and hemp will improve their prospects.
The myth about GDP and prosperity
American-German economist Dennis Snower says you need more than GDP figures to measure people's well-being.
Bioenergy in Kenya: Making tea production sustainable
Can waste from sugarcane make processing one of Kenya's key crops more environmentally friendly?
How do you measure people's well-being?
It's a myth that economic prosperity automatically leads to people enjoying a greater level of well-being.
The Danish school putting sustainability on the syllabus
At the Green Free School in Copenhagen, you're more likely to find pupils gardening than sitting at a classroom desk.
Kenya: Sugar cane as a green fuel
The Tebsonik tea company uses sustainable briquets made of waste sugar cane to dry tea leaves.
Eco India - The Environment Magazine
Eco India looks at the opportunities to use and to avoid CO2 emissions.
DW Business - Europe & Asia
Chinese tourist packages to France suspended - EU lawmakers to debate future UK trade relations
"Work Places": Sustainable fabrics
Dan Liris wants to make Indonesia a standard-bearer for social and environmental quality.
Eco India – The Environment Magazine
Eco India looks at the key role that education can play in shaping global environmental awareness.
Learning through farming in Delhi school
An environmentalist in Delhi runs a farming program to raise children’s environmental awareness.
Training in sustainable craftsmanship
Learning sustainable craftsmanship - young artisans in India build earthquake-proof housing.
Indonesian scientist makes smartphone screens with palm trees
Production of smartphone components can damage the environment, but researchers in Jakarta have come up with a novel idea using bio-waste.
Upcycling: All-natural sustainable luxury design
How feathers, eggshells, tobacco leaves and seashells become luxury designer products.
Eco India – The Environment Magazine
Eco India looks at innovative ways to avoid food waste and get more out of food production.
Cool storage in rural India
Farmers in rural India start storing produce in cold-storage facilities, cutting down on food waste.
The Green Trend – Sustainable Skiing
Increasingly, ski resorts in the Alps are trying to appeal to visitors’ environmental conscience.
Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe
Sustainable skiing in Switzerland, tobogganing in Austria and dinner that indulges all the senses.
To fly or not to fly?
As air travel becomes ever more popular, the environment stands to suffer. What's the solution?
Is big business coming to save the day?
Corporations are promising to fix the world's problems. But will they really?
'The cost of inaction will be unaffordable'
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner sees climate change as a driver of development decisions.
Finland accelerates sustainability drive
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin elaborates on what issues are high on her government's agenda.
WEF 2020 changing how capitalism works?
At the WEF in Davos it‘s not just about business and trade. It’s also about making a fairer world.
Eco India - The Environment Magazine
Eco India looks at possibilities to strike a balance, and make consumption more sustainable.
How to save Co2
Heating your home, using the AC or eating meat - our daily needs are energy intensive.
Stylish but sustainable
A company in Delhi has found a way to make new clothes out of the tonnes of textile production waste produced every year
The rise of 'green churches'
In the face of climate change, a growing number of churches are going green.
Fair trade coffee is hot at Berlin's Green Week
According to NGOs, the world market price for coffee is so low that many farmers can't make a decent living.
Oysters - a sustainable business
Fisherwomen in India grow oysters, which are easy to harvest and help the environment by filtering the water.
BlackRock makes climate change central to investments
The world's largest asset manager will begin to divest holdings in companies that focus on coal production.
Bundesliga: How sustainable are Germany's football clubs?
Climate protection and sustainability are socio-political issues that even Bundesliga clubs cannot ignore.
Buy Me Once
More and more designers are making long-lasting clothes that come with free repairs and warranties.
In demand: Pilgrim routes in Europe
The Way of St. James is most popular among Europe's pilgrim routes. Others are less crowded, shorter or unusual.
How green is the plastics industry?
DW talks to an executive about efforts by the industry in Germany to clean up its act.
Daily life in an eco-friendly village
Residents of the village of Sieben Linden in northern Germany have embraced an eco-friendly way of life. Their dwellings feature thatched roofs, they're economical with resources, and they don't even waste water by flushing toilets. But is it a realistic model?
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