Innovation Archives - The Earth Gang

Isatou Ceesay – Queen of Recycling

May 20, 2022 | Innovation

This beautiful book tells the inspirational story about Isatou Ceesay. In the 1990s, Isatou noticed that people were using plastic bags to carry their shopping instead of baskets. If the bags broke, they were thrown away on the streets. Isatou saw a problem and turned...

Nature Can Save the Earth!

May 3, 2022 | Innovation

The best technology on Planet Earth is Nature. It has to be…. or how could humans have survived for thousands of years? A New York company, Ecovative Design, firmly believes that if we harness natural technology, we can have better lives, better food and better...

The car that runs on zero!

Apr 22, 2022 | Innovation

How exciting is this, E.A.R.T.H Gang members! By the time we’re old enough, we’ll be driving a car that needs NO fuel, NO charging, NO input. And it will be affordable, if Maxwell Chikumbutso has anything to do with it. Maxwell founded Saith Technologies...

Retrofitting the Sea

Apr 2, 2022 | Innovation

Humans have brought our oceans to a crisis point. Coral reefs are slowly dying. But we have the power to change that … with a little help from 3D printing. MARS – the Modular Artificial Reef Structure – was the brainchild of Alex Goad. It was his graduate...

CopenHill Fun Park…

Mar 19, 2022 | Innovation

… is also a renewable waste-to-energy centre in Copenhagen. The iconic CopenHill will help the city become carbon neutral by 2025 by producing eco-friendly energy for the Danish capital. As a power plant, CopenHill is so clean that the architects designed the...

From a crisp packet to a stylish bag

Mar 9, 2022 | Innovation

Women around the world are finding solutions to the plastic problem. ReCharkha is an inspirational, non-profit organisation with a mission to: UPCYCLE waste to conserve the environment set up rural livelihoods and create aware citizens of this planet! The project is...