Since 2013 NGO Environment360 has been organizing school programs to teach kids about waste separation, helping them to improve their livelihoods and make money at the same time.

With the decline of livestock herding due to drought and shrinking communal lands, the Maasai community in Kenya is slowly embracing commercial bee farming.mmunal lands, the Maasai community in Kenya is slowly embracing commercial bee farming.

Selling and eating endangered animals is common in Nigeria. Though there are laws prohibiting such markets, they are not being enforced. Now wildlife activists are trying to save the animals from being butchered.

Zimbabwe's changing climate means that farmers need to make some major adjustments. One way forward may be to leave crops behind and focus on something that takes up fewer resources: free-range chickens.

South Africa has built the continent's first plastic road — not only does it keep plastic waste out of the environment, it makes road surfaces cheaper, stronger and longer-lasting than conventional asphalt.

In Ghana, a women's cooperative has started an initiative to use water hyacinths as a sustainable and quality resource to develop a collection of natural fiber products and paper for sale around the world.

They're small, colorful and easy to charge – the latest generation of electric cars are all the rage. Developers hope it they will help make inner city traffic more sustainable.

Two startups are blazing a trail for e-mobility by introducing electric motorcycle taxis to the streets of Kampala. The aim is to revolutionize Uganda's traffic and transport sectors.

In the Netherlands, new islands are being created in the Markermeer lake. Meant to create more land for humans, activists proposed setting aside the area to create a habitat for plants and birds.

In Mozambique, a designer is reusing cloth to produce durable clothing. Her work focuses on African prints and uses natural dyes made from leaves and roots harvested by a women's association on the outskirts of Maputo.