France bans extremely thin models
A law in France banning the use of unhealthily thin fashion models came into effect this month. The country’s health ministry hopes it will help combat inaccessible ideals of beauty
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British children donate 330,000 textbooks to pupils in Tanzania and Uganda
Aloftment Homes that Heat Themselves
The concept of affordable, stylish homes has moved up a notch with the unveiling of a new housing model, that requires no heating.
Student's Powerful Idea For Clean Energy
An engineering student may have found the Holy Grail of renewable energy as part of his final university project.
Dynamic Transition Network Forges Ahead
Rob Hopkins and Caroline Lucas speak out from the Second Transition Network Conference.
Housing Solutions
Coin Street is an early model of what can be achieved when local people take matters into their own hands.
Futuristic Fuel Cells
This February, 28 schools from the Aberdeen area of Scotland, took part in a unique competition to create a fuel cell powered model, made from any material of their choice.
Be the Change
'I would like this event to be a celebration of what is possible,' said Sir John Whitmore, opening the three-day, inaugural Be The Change event in London. The conference took its name from [...]
Power to the People
A unique experiment in Canada offers a democratic model for citizens world-wide. In May 2005, a referendum will decide whether British Columbia (BC) will adopt a new voting system pro-posed by a [...]
Eco Transport in the Austrian Alps
Imagine going on your holidays to the Austrian Alps and only needing one key to guarantee unlimited mobility and the use of over twenty different modes of transport: electric cars, E-scooters, [...]
Building a New World
"Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, it is to capture it and to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic revolution."
George Monbiot speaking at the European Social [...]
Returning to Roots
As from May 2003, the headquarters of GEN-Europe leaves its current home in Italy and from that date will be split between the Findhorn ecovillage in northern Scotland and the ZEGG community in [...]
Web of Hope
'The slogan at the beginning of the 20th Century was Progress. The cry at the end of the 20th Century was Survival.The call for this century is HOPE.' Govinda Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese Schoolboy
