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Green living
A hot new buzzword is green living. How do you live a sustainable lifestyle?
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Living Planet: Cooling buildings with wastewater
Wastewater is more precious than you'd think — you can harvest energy from dirty water. Nick Meeten tells us how.
Growing food without burning the forest
Peruvian forest farmers combine old and new agricultural techniques to protect the Amazon.
Peru: Sustainable farming in the rainforest
An NGO is helping farmers near Iquitos to protect the forest and grow more crops.
Food Waste in the Philippines
In the Philippines, being poor means looking for your food on a garbage dump. Filipa is one of them.
Turning jeans into works of art
A London-based designer uses scraps of denim to create stunning landscapes and portraits.
Eating from the garbage dump in the Philippines
The Sustainable Diner is trying to tackle the Philippines' growing food waste problem.
Iran's youth seek sustainable economic future
Many well-educated young Iranians are contemplating life abroad as the United States works to isolate the country.
Pakistan struggling to eradicate child malnutrition
Malnutrition is rife in Pakistan, where four in 10 children under five years of age are stunted.
TUI cruise ships: steps to sustainability
German cruise line TUI, says it wants to become more environmentally friendly. But critics say much more must be done.
Zero waste fashion
A designer upcycles old saris to encourage consumers to be both environmentally and culturally aware.
Corporate sector can save or ruin the planet
Business is a crucial sector for climate action. Some companies are taking the lead; big polluters still lack ambition.
Myopic stock markets deter green investments
Firms remain torn between making ethical investments and meeting the short-term expectations of the stock market.
How sustainable is the digital way of life?
Digitalization promises many possibilities, to protect the environment. But it's not all ecological.
A different kind of food production
A store that offers groceries past their sell-by date, and a restaurant that grows its own salad.
Guarana growers ditch chemicals for ancient knowledge
For the Guarana growers of the Amazon, the plant is part of ancient traditions that respect their rainforest home.
Aldi to charge for plastic fruit and veg bags, too
In a bid to further reduce plastic waste, Aldi has said it will charge consumers for thin plastic produce bags.
Boosting agriculture in Kenya
Kenya's government is planning to overhaul the country's ailing agricultural industry.
Tanning with olive leaves
Tanning through olive leaves – a new way to make the leather industry more sustainable.
Turning a port into an eco-district
Sustainable city planning – the Swedish capital is converting its old port into an eco-district.
Textile industry in Europe: Fair Fashion – Made in the EU!
Fashion made in Europe, produced fairly and sustainably, that's what Cyroline stands for.
German parties go green for European election
But Germany's establishment parties face roadblocks when convincing voters that they've turned over a green leaf.
Welcome to the latest edition of Eco Africa
On this week's Eco Africa, sustainable mobile phones, elephant poo paper and what to do with all those plastic bottles.
Inside Europe: Women and 'Slow Fish' sustainability
There are plenty of women working in the world of fishing — from fishing itself to processing and sales. There's an event in Italy called "Slow Fish" organized by the international Slow Food network. It focuses on issues of sustainability in fishing worldwide. This year the organizers chose to give women the spotlight. Dany Mitzman was there to meet a few of them.
Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine
On this week's Eco Africa, sustainable mobile phones, elephant poo paper and what to do with plastic bottles.
Turning elephant dung into paper
A group of women in western Uganda are making paper — and a livelihood — out of elephant dung.
Is it really a fair phone?
How sustainable can a mobile phone be? A Dutch company is showing how it's done.
The Future Cities Laboratory
Through a combination of science and design, the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) brings together researchers from around the world to develop new knowledge, technologies and approaches for a sustainable future. And while it takes an Asian perspective, the ideas outlined at the meeting of 100 scientists in Singapore will be useful for regions all over the world, as reporter Lena Bodewein found out.
Cheese from pubic bacteria and other food prototypes at the V&A
"Food: Bigger than the Plate" pairs the pleasure of food with its politics of production, even addressing human cheese.
Planet Berlin: Soft, sustainable wools
Wool, linen and natural fabrics: Ruta Sluskaite-Dittmann has the right yarn for every knitting enthusiast.
Empowering waste pickers
An organization in Bengalaru is giving waste pickers job security - and dignity.
Fight to save Ghana's cocoa trees
Ghana is the world's second largest cocoa exporter. But aging trees and crop disease pose problems.
EU living way beyond its natural means: report
The world would need 2.8 Earths if everyone consumed natural resources as greedily as the average person in the EU.
Proposals for a sustainable strengthening of press freedom
Ines Pohl
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day — but in 2019, there's hardly a reason to celebrate, says DW's editor-in-chief.
Eco India - The Environment Magazine
A solar project in Rajasthan, a Mumbai spider researcher and online gardening in Germany
How food waste hurts the environment
Wasting food hurts the climate, threatens biodiversity and can contaminate our soil with microplastics.
Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine
On this week's Eco Africa: solar power in Egypt, art in Ghana's classrooms and Senegal's disappearing village.
Eco India - The Environment Magazine
Eco India dives into sustainable oyster farming and lake restoration across India.
The Indian concept of innovation
An Indian entrepreneur brought the Indian philosophy of Jugaad - creating more with less - to France.
Sustainable oyster farming
A group of resolute fisherwomen in western India are pioneering sustainable oyster cultivation.
Why one third of our food goes to waste
There is enough food produced worldwide to feed everyone. Yet much of it never arrives on a plate.
Fighting climate change by tackling food waste
One third of all food ends up in the garbage. That's not just wasteful, but it also severely damages the climate.
Cage fishing in Uganda
In Africa's Great Lakes Region, fishermen have turned to cage fish farming as an alternative food source.
A German village goes it alone on climate protection
One motivated mayor has set up a store stocked with regional produce, to help cut carbon emissions.
The art of batik
The eco-friendly craft of batik dyeing is seeing a revival.
Really a fair phone?
How sustainable can a mobile phone be? A Dutch company is showing how it's done.
Ghana: Making one of the earth's most polluted places safer
In Ghana, scrap metal collectors are learning how to protect themselves and the environment from their toxic work.
Extinction Rebellion: Risking prison to save the planet
Activists will be hoping to land themselves in jail this week in a bid to save our planet — and our species.
Eco India - The Environment Magazine
Sustainable living - with regional building materials in India and photovoltaic concrete in Germany.
Latest World Bank fossil fuel project
Nigeria is building the world's biggest oil refinery with the help of controversial World Bank loans.
Playing at plane travel
A dream that (almost) comes true. Kids in Delhi can board a plane that never takes off.
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