As of January 2016, police officers in Western Australia who are called out to emergencies relating to mental illness will be joined by mental health workers. Nurses, psychologists, social workers…

Groundbreaking new Black history curriculum rolled out across Hackney! Over 300 schools across the UK have signed up to ‘Hackney’s Diverse Curriculum …

Alec Saelens, Adam Cantwell, Alon Aviram are the founders of Bristol Cable, a quarterly newspaper-cum-magazine and online outlet. It aims to offer an answer to the hollowed-out state of local…

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to construct a “House of One” in Berlin, a religious space consisting of a church, synagogue and mosque connected with a central meeting place. The…

Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand firm managing trusts, wills and estates, is considering introducing a 32-hour week following a successful experiment. As part of the experiment, workers were allowed to…

Following the BLM protests and the toppling of the slave trader statue in Bristol, the London Mayor’s office decided last year to give the city a diversity makeover wherein a…

Bookshop.org is an online bookshop that promotes and financially supports local, indie booksellers. It was set up as a socially conscious alternative to Amazon and is B-Corp certified. The organisation…

Indian multinational Tata Steel has introduced a new Diversity and Inclusion policy that enables all LGBTQ+ employees and their partners to access all HR benefits available under Indian law, including health…

KKV, a comprehensive community health centre in Honolulu, offers daily instructions on how to repair bikes. The initiative – Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange – addresses young men, many of whom are…

Isla Urbana, an interdisciplinary group of designers, urbanists, engineers, anthropologists, educators and artists, aims to build a water-responsible culture in communities across Mexico by integrating education and community empowerment with the installation of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems.

While many businesses are closing – either temporarily or going into permanent administration – communities and individuals are taking on a larger role in providing key services, usually for free. …

The Belgian city of Ghent has requested a Commons Transition Plan.  On the basis of research carried out by Belgian transitions theorist Michel Bauwens and project manager Yurek Onzia, the…

The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business In Japan, you can pay an actor to impersonate your relative, spouse, coworker, or any kind of acquaintance. Morin: So, you could be involved with…

Co-living – a form of intentional community where like-minded people share living space and amenities – is commonly seen as a temporary fix for students and young professionals trying to…

In Peru’s capital, vultures are being fitted with cameras to track illegal dumping grounds. Lima has just four official landfill sites to manage the waste of 9 million residents. There is…

For the first time, the Saudi General Directorate of Passports has advertised 140 jobs for women at its airports and border crossings. In just over a week it has received…

Moat Homes, in partnership with energy firm ENGIE, is trialling a net-zero property scheme in the UK. The firm “Energiesprong” refurbishes homes with energy efficient walls, windows, solar roofs, and…

Grab, the Southeast Asian multipurpose app, has partnered with the Chinese online healthcare services provider Ping An Good Doctor to form a joint venture company. Grab is a Singapore-based technology…

Signals are new ideas or innovations that could change the game for sustainability in the future. They can be positive, negative, both or neither. If there is a topic you…

Sandjar K on Twitter The youth of today: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays https://t.co/z05vrOzLBY via @TheEconomist #signalofchange

In lieu of this Novembers’ postponed COP 26 in Glasgow, activists from around the world staged a virtual mock COP to call for greater climate action. On Thursday 1 December…