The government’s not coming to help. No matter, Khartoum's residents are making their neighbourhoods liveable again after the war.

Smart doesn’t just mean sensors and software. It means cooperation, shared responsibility and thinking big. Even when you're a small village.

In the past 20 years, Norway has significantly reduced the number of homeless people. How so? Because they want to solve it!

A new rice mill, equipped with cutting-edge Japanese technology, in southern NSW is being hailed as a bold step towards food security and rural sustainability. The group of twenty farmers behind the project hope their mill will also boost profitability and resilience after a century of domination by a corporate monopoly.

Disputes have long pitted neighbour against neighbour in Plateau state, Nigeria. One peace-building group is working to change the narrative.

In the Netherlands, residents regularly tear up sealed surfaces and plant flowers in an effort to combat overheating and flooding. The government not only accepts this practice — known as tegelwippen — it supports it.

A bus stop in England has been receiving artistic makeovers from creative locals after it became a target for anti-social behaviour.

After joining a strike against Etsy, hundreds of artists have created their own cooperative online platform for artisans, currently in beta.

Excess wealth can mean less empathy, addiction, even unhappiness. Among affluent young people, a movement of extreme generosity is growing.

A new supermarket offering free groceries and cooked meals has opened in Adelaide, all stocked from donated goods.

Australian households are making big savings on their grocery bills by forming small shopping co-ops and buying groups.

First-gen Sri Lankan-Australian opens a string of Sydney restaurants and social enterprises that celebrate multiculturalism and diversity.

With its monthly repair cafés and nearly 5,000 items to lend, Buffalo’s Tool Library is chipping away at throwaway consumerism.

With social isolation and housing affordability at crisis levels, a Canadian startup is experimenting with pairing seniors and students.

Villages in a drought-plagued part of North India have been transformed by a revival of old farming practices.

A disused Sainsbury’s supermarket in Portsmouth, England, has been transformed into an indoor skatepark.

Horticulturalist embraces guerrilla gardening, planting more than 100 unauthorised trees in south-western Sydney.

Redesigning Denmark’s busiest train station to make it safer for those on foot or bike took note of how people moved about in the snow.

Teenagers are riding BMX bikes while learning life skills and dealing with mental health challenges due, in part, to the covid lockdowns.

How an unusual ritual led to fewer child marriages, less flooding, a boom in girls’ education — and a cultural transformation in India.