A New Wave

Climate·7 January 2026

Earth needs a systems change that prioritises wellbeing

We are currently facing the failure of a system based on infinite growth that puts profit before care for people and the planet. A system that is highly dependent on fossil fuels, natural resources extraction, overproduction and…

GREENPEACE · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·29 December 2025

Voices for now for tomorrow

By sharing progressive ideas and long-term thinking the aim of the Olive Network is to connect populations with positive change makers, rising above division to the empathy and vision of charities, the arts, science and humanities.

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·29 November 2025

World Social Summit Commits to Follow-up Process to Ensure Implementation

The Second World Summit for Social Development adopted a political declaration through which world leaders reaffirm their commitment to building a more just, inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world by addressing social challenges such…

SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 4 min read

Climate·14 March 2025

Brazil Shares Priorities for COP 30

The President-designate of the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) has briefed Member States and Observers on Brazil’s priorities and preparations for the Conference. Elaborating on Brazil’s vision in a letter to parties, he…

SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 4 min read

United Nations·9 June 2025

Featured Story: UNICEF Global Learning Innovation Hub

The global learning crisis has deeply intensified, with 70 per cent of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries unable to read a simple statement. At the same time, the world is undergoing a digital transformation marked by an…

UNICEF GLOBAL LEARNING INNOVATION HUB · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·15 March 2024

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges.…

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate·2 February 2024

French climate activist Camille Étienne and the power of fear

Camille Étienne at the Société de Lecture, 25 January 2024. (Société de Lecture/Magali Dougados)

ON Network · 4 min read

Charities·20 January 2024

‘All faiths and none’: London peace march aims to ease Gaza tensions

Sunday’s event follows a number of pro-Palestine marches in London in recent weeks.Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·30 December 2023

5 Global Issues Io Watch In 2024

A young protester onstage calling for the end of fossil fuels at the closing of the Global Climate Action High-Level Event during the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photo: COP28/Anthony Fleyhan

ON Network · 18 min read

A New Wave·13 December 2023

Louise Harris - We Tried

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Climate·1 December 2023

Featured Story: Youth in Action: United Nations

Climate change has increased levels of uncertainty about our future. As its impacts intensify over time, one thing has become certain: We will leave the Earth to today’s children and young people, and to future generations.

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·9 June 2025

Featured Story: We have established the lesson for the entire world.

Sabine Hornig, La Guardia Vistas (2020). Commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners in partnership with Public Art Fund for LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy of the artist; LaGuardia Gateway Partners; Public…

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·18 August 2023

Montana kids win historic climate lawsuit – here’s why it could set a powerful precedent

The case, Held v. State of Montana, was based on allegations that state energy policies violate the young plaintiffs’ constitutional right to “a clean and healthful environment” – a right that has been enshrined in the Montana Constitution…

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·16 August 2023

A New Experimental Art Center Has Opened in Bethlehem - and It Hopes to Bring the Art World to the West Bank

“It’s a cabinet of curiosities of sorts,” Elias Anastas told Artnet News, adding that they will invite creatives “to come and make art out of Palestine.” The aim is to nurture the local Palestinian and Middle Eastern art scene, but also…

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·31 July 2023

A Manifesto To Combat Global Heating - Environmental Justice Foundation

From 2 years ago in the run up to Cop26 this film reinforces how pressing the situation is today, how little has been recognsed by nation states and also how unfair are the consequences for least developed places (ON ED)

ON Network · 1 min read

United Nations·30 August 2024

Featured Story: The future of the UN: Time to think big, urges Guterres

Celebrating the UN’s 75th anniversary last year, prompted major internal discussion about its future, and a new direction away from the post-World War Two consensus of its early days. These reflections have resulted in Our Common Agenda ,…

ON Network · 7 min read

Climate·16 January 2023

OXFAM: Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together

The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report today. During the past…

ON Network · 8 min read

Climate·11 January 2023

2023: Five Areas to Target Through Resolve, Determination, and Hope

As expected, 2022 was a significant year for governing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other global environmental frameworks. Negotiations delivered a set of four biodiversity goals to be achieved by 2050 and 23…

ON Network · 6 min read

Climate·5 January 2023

UN Foundation: Climate Issues to watch in 2023

Four years of consecutive droughts have left families in southern Madagascar helpless and unable to feed themselves. Access to water remains difficult for the region of Androy. Photo: Safidy Andrianantenaina

ON Network · 15 min read

Charities·20 November 2021

United Nations: World Children's Day

Students at the “25 de Junho” School, located in Beira, Mozambique.

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·14 April 2026

Featured Voice: This is the Speech the World Needed - Barbados PM Mia Mottley

Open on original site ↗ Greenpeace posted on Instagram: Incredible speech from the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley calling for action on climate change THIS IS THE SPEECH THE WORLD NEEDED SOURCE: GREENPEACE

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·12 May 2025

Featured Story: 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

A new book inviting artists to re-think the climate emergency

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·28 September 2021

Time for Youth to Take the Wheel, Say Speakers at SDG Moment

The UN Secretary-General convened the second annual SDG Moment, a high-level event to “punctuate a ‘Decade of Action’ with messages about the transformative change” required to realize the SDGs, as explained by the Earth Negotiations…

ON Network · 4 min read

United Nations·18 September 2021

Secretary-General Unveils Vision for Future-Oriented UN

The UN Secretary-General has issued a report on how to secure a breakthrough for humanity through a series of choices to avert a historical breakdown of societies, and instead realize a “greener, safer, better” future. The ‘Our Common…

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate·1 May 2021

Young reporters take on climate action from their classrooms

YRE gives students between 12 and 18 year old the opportunity to lean more about sustainable develpment issues and be heard through a journalism based on solutions. (Credit: Foundation for Environmental Education)

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate·29 April 2021

Forum for the Future: How will you reboot the future?

How will you reboot the future? New campaign amplifies young voices ahead of major climate conference, COP-26 As the climate and social crises we face intensify, the voices of young people are rightly getting louder. Forum for the Future…

ON Network · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·6 November 2023

Archana Soreng: Indigenous youth are the bearers of their culture

A member of the Kharia tribe in Odisha in Eastern India, Archana Soreng has dedicated her work to collect and document the practices of her community and other tribes in her region. On Wednesday, she spoke at the International Union for…

ON Network · 6 min read

Education·19 March 2021

To build a better world from the Covid crisis, we need a global push to connect the world’s young people

Web Foundation Co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith

ON Network · 6 min read

Climate·26 December 2025

Five young women activists to watch - a moderator's take

British activists Ella Meek and Amy Meek, founders of 'Kids Against Plastic', address last year’s Young Activists Summit at the UN in Geneva. (KEYSTONE / Salvatore Di Nolfi)

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·29 December 2025

Dear future children, ‘a film about young activists made by young filmmakers’

Published on 05 March 2021, 05:57. Updated on 05 March 2021, 11:00.

ON Network · 7 min read

Climate·15 January 2021

The Radio Station at the Heart of a Fishing Community

This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download , or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app.

ON Network · 11 min read

Climate·4 January 2021

How to create a government that considers future generations

A pandemic planning committee had been scrapped six months before coronavirus hit the UK – despite the fact that the threat from a pandemic had been known for some time. Similarly, an early warning programme to alert the government in the…

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate·16 November 2020

Four climate strategies that could reach across partisan divides

Professor in Practice, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·10 November 2020

Youth Activists Are Holding Their Own Climate Summit

LONDON, Nov 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Earlier in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced a year's delay to planned UN climate talks in Glasgow — originally set to start on Monday — young climate activists chafed that no innovative…

ON Network · 4 min read

Peace·15 October 2020

Atlas of the Future: School's out! This learning community is in

LEARNLIFE Catalonia (Barcelona) Maths. History. Science. Exams. Tests. Most schools focus on the acquisition of knowledge, facts and traditional disciplines. But, united by optimism, one adventurous group of innovators has recognised that a new way of learning is needed in today’s increasingly unpre

1 min read

United Nations·11 October 2023

Young people take action for global change

The UN has been engaging with young people to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges since 1999. Yet 2020 might be the year their contribution is needed most, as the world is reeling from the disruption caused by COVID-19.…

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·11 October 2023

Nations Skate Youth

Nations Youth Society was founded in early 2020, we’re are in the process of taking over the respected, “CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR KIDS ACHIEVING THROUGH EDUCATION AND CULTURE (CSKATEC)” they are incorporated as a non-profit organization under…

ON Network · 1 min read

Economics·11 October 2023

Helping youth enterprise take off, will bring sustainable returns, say UN economists

Amid worsening global employment prospects owing to the pandemic, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) maintained in a new report that unlocking business opportunities for young adults “could lower unemployment and bring…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·12 February 2020

How Activists Made the Art World Wake Up to the Climate Crisis

From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts

ON Network · 10 min read

New Museum·10 March 2019

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

Gamers play the endurance driving game Desert Bus as part of Desert Bus for Hope, which launched in 2007 and has raised over $5m for the children’s hospital charity Child’s Play. Photograph: Kolin Toney/Desert Bus for Hope

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New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

5 min read

New Museum·24 January 2019

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

‘Over the past year, Barking and Dagenham has started to become known as a global leader in taking back control.’ Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

5 min read

New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

Can art relax you? Sressed Millennials use galleries to unwind, research shows.

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New Museum·9 January 2019

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Every single purchase you make goes towards a similar item for a refugee, delivered via one of the 80+ projects Help Refugees support across the world.

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Shinrin Yoku means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” In 1982, the Forest Agency proposed Shrinrin Yoku as a different type of therapy which quickly took as picnicking under the cherry blossoms in April and March is a…

3 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

5 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

People form a giant peace sign at Glastonbury. Photograph: Andy Eliot/PA

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New Museum·18 September 2019

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

The building is 25 sqm classroom in a dome shape built to host Syrian and Jordanian children in Za’atari village, located just outside of the Za’atari refugee camp, 10 km from the Syrian border.

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New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

Half the world's rainforest has been lost over the past forty years.

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New Museum·3 January 2019

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

His work, tackling migration, racism, and religious persecution, feels particularly urgent.

2 min read

New Museum·17 August 2019

Franciscans International - A Voice At The United Nations

We are a Franciscan voice at the United Nations protecting the vulnerable, the forgotten, and our wounded earth through advocacy.

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New Museum·23 August 2024

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

Claudia's village, Lubunda , is in a disadvantaged part of northern Zambia, where people once relied on dirty, distant and dangerous water sources.

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New Museum·1 January 2019

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?

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New Museum·1 January 2019

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

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New Museum·30 December 2018

Cahier Africain

In the beginning there was a notebook. A notebook about hundreds of broken lives and tragic fates. Director Heidi Specogna wastes no time and shows it to us in the very beginning. She uses the photos of men, children and teenagers, as well…

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New Museum·30 December 2018

A World Not Ours

The Schwarz Foundation has recently opened A World Not Ours , its exhibition for the summer, curated by Katerina Gregos. The exhibition takes place at the Foundation’s venue in Greece, Art Space Pythagorion , on the island of Samos, one of…

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New Museum·14 April 2026

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

School teacher Saber Hosseini from Bamyan, Afghanistan, cycles more than an hour to deliver books to children in remote villages in the province.

2 min read

New Museum·24 September 2019

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer

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New Museum·28 December 2018

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

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New Museum·28 December 2018

Diverse candidates make history in US midterm elections

Some of the winners in Tuesday’s US midterm elections will make history when they take office. Here’s a round-up of some of those breaking barriers Stateside, from people of colour to LGBT candidates

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New Museum·28 December 2018

ABBIE TRAYLER-SMITH 'AFTER DARKNESS'

Anima-Mundi is proud to present Abbie Trayler-Smith’s ‘After Darkness’, an extraordinary exhibition of photography capturing the devastating effects of Isis on the landscape and people of the region.

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New Museum·27 December 2018

12 Ways The Arts Can Encourage Climate Action

An art installation made with parts of Greenland’s ice cap in Paris at COP21 by Olafur Eliasson. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

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New Museum·23 November 2023

Francis Alys - to work with refugees

Francis Alÿs to work with refugees in Iraq and meet Isil’s victims

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New Museum·24 September 2019

David Nott on Desert Island Discs

He works across three London hospitals performing general, vascular, trauma & reconstructive surgery. In addition, for the past two decades, he's spent several weeks every year working in conflict zones around the world for Médecins…

1 min read

New Museum·16 May 2018

Global reasons to be cheerful - David Byrne

1. Healing the divide Georgetown is one of Texas’s most conservative suburbs, but gets all its electricity from renewable sources. Its mayor, Dale Ross, a Republican in what is considered oil country, made a decision in 2015. He ignored…

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New Museum·16 October 2025

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…

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New Museum·27 November 2025

Featured: Utopia For Realists - and how we can get there.

Visited the Wellcome Collection yesterday and came away with Utopia For Realists (ON Ed) Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you know. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey…

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