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Green living
A hot new buzzword is green living. How do you live a sustainable lifestyle?
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Eco-at-Africa — The Environment Magazine
On this week's eco@africa: sustainable swimming with dolphins, a special tree museum and saving vultures.
'Blue fashion' walks the runway in Nigeria
Fish skin, sea shell and seaweed are trending as materials in fashion design.
Green living and us
With governments struggling to meet climate goals, we look at what people are doing to live greener lives.
The vegan Rovers
How one English soccer club is trying to be the greenest in the world.
Light in a bottle for a village in Brazil
In Kalunga villages, light usually comes from diesel and kerosene lamps. Now bottled light could replace them.
Welcome to the latest edition of eco@africa
On this week's show: an eco canoe club in South Africa, top sustainable festive trends and greening in Mauritania.
Eco@Africa – The Environment Magazine
On this week's eco@africa: canoeing for nature, greening Mauritania's capital and sustainable Christmas trends.
Cutting food waste and protecting the climate
In South Africa, food ends up in landfill where it generates climate-harmful emissions, even as millions go hungry.
Sustainable biogas for rural Morocco
A new process to make biogas could help Moroccans skip buying expensive propane gas.
The hidden human cost of fast fashion
Women sewing garments are often over-worked and underpaid. FEMNET is working toward more sustainability in the industry.
Milking camels to save Indian nomads
There's more to the humble camel than its hump. Its milk for one thing.
Cool and sustainable - Finnish fashion
What Finland's new fashion designers have in common is idealism and sustainable production methods.
Smartphones: Live longer, be greener
The short lifespan of smartphones causes massive environmental problems. Can more modular designs offer a solution?
Indonesia: Career in cocoa
Sabrina Mustopo’s high-quality chocolate is an export hit.
Battery cells in Germany?
More and more German carmakers are producing electric models, but the rising need for batteries is a real challenge.
The city needs more gardens
Urban gardening is on trend. City gardeners at one famous green oasis in Berlin show how it's done.
Sustainable investments
The time when investors focused solely on returns seems to be over.
Sustainable investments still in their infancy
The concept of green finance is still far from being mainstream among investors.
Ambitious goals for reforestation in Rwanda
As part of a new initiative millions of hectares of new forest and agricultural land are set to be planted by 2030.
The growing popularity of Nigeria's eco-soap
Abiola Ogunrinde produces soap from natural local products. The eco-soap is now popular not just in Nigeria.
Back on your bike in Beijing
How the advent of rental bicycles is changing the face and the flow of traffic in Beijing.
Dark side of China's bike-sharing boom
Cycling is good for the climate and is becoming popular again in China. But that's having an unexpected impact.
Welcome to the latest edition of eco@africa
On this week's show: a snake farm in Kenya, an app cutting food waste and an entrepreneur helping reduce deforestation.
Farming small, thinking big
Brazilian workers show the ecological benefits of small-scale farming on abandoned land.
Breathing easy in Hanoi
The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi is looking to e-mobility and trees to improve its air quality.
Hanoi takes steps to improve air quality
The air quality in Hanoi will leave you breathless, and not in a good way. Now the city is actively tackling the problem, banning scooters and motorcycles by 2030. It's also investing heavily in public transport.
Eco-at-Africa — The Environment Magazine
On this week's eco@africa: turning plastic waste into paving stones, Kenya’s plastic bag ban and edible drinking straws.
Sneakers made from chewing gum
A clothing company is cleaning up the streets of Amsterdam by making ‘Gumshoe’ sneakers from the sticky waste product.
Doing Your Bit: Edible straws made in Germany
A German startup is trying to reduce plastic waste — by making drinking straws you can eat.
Berlin report warns of anti-hunger setbacks
A world hunger report released in Berlin says warfare and climate change are negating past gains in nutrition.
Plastic-free, but not so easy
In 2016, Tamsin Walker launched an experiment to ban plastic packaging from her life. Did she manage?
Turning the plastic tide in the UK
Plastic pollution has become a hot topic in the UK. Why is everyone suddenly talking about it?
Ethical investment – an oxymoron?
Investment manager Charlie Thomas' customers want sustainable investments that still deliver returns.
First comes profit, then morals
Is it ever morally acceptable to seek to make a profit – especially when fulfilling basic human needs?
Insect pet food to offset carbon pawprint
Pet food startups are pioneering eco-friendly puppy snacks based on high-protein, low-emission insects.
Business - DW Debate from the Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York
In a deeply unstable geopolitical environment, how can security strategies be better aligned with development objectives? This session was developed in partnership with Deutsche Welle TV. This session will be livestreamed on TopLink and the Forum website.
A Cool Solution
Grenada's typical air conditioners are climate killers. Green AC systems could change that.
Environmentally friendly hotels
The restaurant Figlmüller specializes in traditional meat dishes and reveals its Wiener schnitzel recipe to Euromaxx.
Doing Your Bit: Growing mushrooms in coffee grounds
Growing gourmet mushrooms at home in used coffee grounds.
Can Instagram fashionistas help save the planet?
How does environmentalism become trendy? As anything does in 2018: on Instagram.
The eco crisis lurking in your wardrobe
Bloggers and fashion brands are taking on the fast fashion phenomenon in a bid to make our wardrobes more eco-friendly.
Japan's new whale hunting plans thrown out
Tokyo says it may pull out of the International Whaling Commission after losing a bid to restart commercial whaling.
Climate fallout from the financial crisis
Have developments 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers helped or hindered climate protection?
Sustainable farming post-Brexit
Will Brexit prove a blessing or a curse for sustainable farming and food production in the UK?
Welcome to the latest edition of eco@africa
On this week's show: sustainable dolphin tourism, saving South Africa's vultures and greener homes in Nigeria.
Donning a green coat, Burberry bows to consumers
Britain's Burberry says it will stop the controversial practices of destroying unsold stock and using animal fur.
'Scallop Wars': UK and France draw up peace treaty
An end may be in sight to the "Scallop Wars," which saw offshore battles between British and French fishing vessels.
Rethinking water tech
Clean fresh water is scarce in much of the world and climate change is making it worse. These innovations could help.
The real cost of travel
Flights often appear to be the fastest and cheapest options. However, DW has visualized what the true cost of travel is.
Kenya says no plastic bags
A year ago, Kenya pledged to fine or incarcerate anyone making, selling or using plastic bags.
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