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Green living
A hot new buzzword is green living. How do you live a sustainable lifestyle?
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Kenya’s green pencils
Meet the entrepreneurs producing eco-friendly pencils from recycled newspapers.
Climate key topic for G20 summit
Chinese expert sees climate driven migration as key topic for G20 foreign ministers.
Circular economy: Zero waste to save the planet
A shift towards a circular economy is for many the only sustainable alternative to save our planet.
A passion for farming
A Ugandan project is giving girls who dropped out of school a fresh start growing passion fruit.
Upcycling Expert
Annekathrin Metzler recycles things others throw away to make clothes, baubles and bags.
Germany's first food-waste supermarket
The first supermarket to sell only salvaged food waste has opened in Germany.
Vattenfall seeks green vehicle fleet
Swedish utility Vattenfall has announced it will replace all its vehicles by electric cars.
Sustainable Travel in Germany
The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) is offering a new online service.
How to make an eco-plate
A German survivalist shows us how to fashion an eco-plate using a log and some fire.
Germany's agriculture activists
Food politics is a major issue in Germany, where activists are mobilizing support for small farmers and wholesome food.
Germans call for a farming revolution
Thousands of people took to the streets in Berlin to protest industrial agriculture. They are part of a movement in support of small farmers, wholesome food and animal welfare – and against the corporate concentration in the food industry.
Cultivating revolution
Germans protest industrial scale farming, while Venezuela seeks to solve its food crisis with urban agriculture. In Cape Town, farmers battle drought and water waste. And why coconuts have become an election issue in India.
Guns for motorbikes
Groups are working to overcome the "conservation or communities" conflict in Cameroon's Korup National Park.
Benin's farmers break new ground
Benin’s secret to sustainable animal husbandry is catching on in villages around the country.
How eco-friendly are leaf plates?
We spoke to Leef founder Claudio Fritz-Vietta about the carbon footprint of leaf plates made in India.
Benin's farmers break new ground
Benin’s secret to sustainable animal husbandry is catching on in villages around the country.
Filthy fashion
DW reporter Jennifer Collins is fashion-addicted. She gave it up - and was shocked by what she learned.
Seedlings of hope
A social enterprise is trying to boost green farming in Tunisia with the resilient acacia tree.
Welcome to eco@africa
This week, we explore innovative solutions to air pollution and bad traffic in Kenya and find out how to reuse concrete.
Seedlings of Hope
A social enterprise is trying to boost green farming in Tunisia with the resilient acacia tree.
Inside Europe: Jeans made in Trondheim
A team of denim enthusiasts in Norway are making pairs of jeans right inside their own shop. Lars Bevanger reports.
Green Johannesburg
Urban gardening in Johannesburg is yielding abundant crops and helping people out of poverty.
Going green in downtown Johannesburg
Urban gardening in Johannesburg is yielding abundant crops and helping people out of poverty.
Sustainable sharing
Why buy a car when you can hitch a ride? Co-consumption is experiencing a commercial boom thanks to the internet.
Teff: Sustainable Superfood
Roll over, Quinoa. Teff is the new super food. It hails from Ethiopia, where a ten year long export ban was just lifted.
Essen's extreme green makeover
The former industrial hub is showing off its environmental credentials as 2017's European Green Capital.
Visiting vegan
Eggs, milk, wool, leather - animal products are part of our everyday lives. But not for vegans. So how do they manage?
Somaliland’s frankincense trade under threat
Overharvesting of frankincense trees endangers the ancestral forests and the livelihoods of local people in Somaliland.
Disappearing frankincense forests
A rising global demand for frankincense is threatening Somaliland ancestral forests.
My Green Christmas
Tamsin Walker explored sustainable presents, dinner, candles, chocolate and a tree. With entertaining results.
7 things I learned from eating local
Eating local food is becoming increasingly popular, with regional products even being dubbed the "new organic." DW reporter Kiyo Dörrer tried out eating strictly local for a week - and here is what she learned.
Eco Christmas market
Germany is famous for its Christmas markets, with their coziness, glitz and seasonal treats. But is there a more eco-conscious alternative to such consumer indulgence? We perused the fair trade, locally-sourced and upcycled fare on offer at a sustainable Christmas market in Cologne.
Real tree or plastic?
The Christmas tree is the centerpiece of most households this time of year. But what's more environmentally friendly: a reusable plastic tree or a conifer grown for the purpose?
Christmas trees for biodiversity
What if cutting down your Christmas tree were good for biodiversity? Grown without fertilizers or pesticides, we visited a German project offering an eco-friendly alternative to the mass-produced trees we're used to from plantations.
Christmas without the consumerism?
The festive season is a time for family, friends and food. But Christmas is also a time of extreme consumerism, and has become a major drain on resources. Tamsin Walker tried to turn her Christmas green - and discovered that there's a whole lot more to it than the color of the tree.
Dreaming of a green Christmas
Christmas is a time for friends, family, food - and rampant consumerism. This week, we explore the alternatives for a more sustainable Christmas, from picking the "greenest" tree to seeking out the coolest upcycled gifts - and wrapping them without contributing to the mountains of seasonal waste.
Germany's taste for home-grown ostrich
Germany has 150 ostrich farms. But is the big bird really a healthy, sustainable alternative to more traditional meat?
Christmas trees with character
A Christmas tree that's good for biodiversity? Here's an eco-friendly alternative to cookie-cutter plantation trees.
How to pick a 'green' Christmas tree
Is it more sustainable to buy a natural Christmas tree every year - or a fake one you can use again and again?
Salmon farming: Sustainable food or biodiversity killer?
Is farmed salmon a sustainable way to keep us supplied with healthy fish? Critics aren't so sure.
Why eating regional isn't always eco-friendly
DW reporter Kiyo Dörrer tried out eating strictly local for a week - and made some surprising discoveries.
Sustainable dried fruit for Berlin's markets
Then the fruit paper is cut and packed - under constant quality control. A bag costs 3 euros.
Berlin's Sustainable Dried Fruit
Then the fruit paper is cut and packed - under constant quality control. A bag costs 3 euros.
Protecting forests to fight climate change
DW talks to an indigenous leader about how native peoples are defending the Earth's forests, biodiversity and climate.
Farming of the future
Brightbox, being developed in the Netherlands, is a multi-layered farm where LEDs replace sunlight.
Let's talk about... organic farming
Organic produce is a growing global market. But is organic farming and how big an impact is it having?
Sustainable building
Architect Anna Heringer uses natural building materials for projects all over the world.
BMW's new concept motorcycle
BMW unveils its vision for the future of motorbikes.
Time for degrowth?
With the planet reaching its biophysical limits on what it can provide us, does the world need a new economic paradigm?
Eco-at-Africa - The Environment Magazine
This week, Kenyan beekeepers, illegal amber mining, and the kids keeping German beaches clean.
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