Sustainable fibre technology Spinnova and Fortum worked together to develop prototypes of clothing made of wheat straw-based fabric.

Without business and policy model changes, resource use will more than double from current levels to 190 billion tonnes by 2060 and far exceed our planetary boundaries.

Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil.

New York designer Charlotte McCurdy has fashioned a water-resistant jacket from a plastic made of algae, which captures existing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Mexican start-up Adriano Di Marti developed a partially biodegradable leather alternative made from cacti.

The toy industry is much better known for shilling cheap plastics and toxic chemicals than for transparency and high environmental standards.

Chip[s] Board is a biodegradable alternative to MDF that is made from non-food-grade industrial potato waste.

Global plastic consumption is gargantuan. It needs to be discussed in terms of hundreds of years and billions of tons. But to most, those digits don't mean anything.

A series of 100% organic products and furniture made from earth and natural fibers by tel-aviv-based designer Adital Ela.

Human urine has been used to create environmentally friendly bricks by university students in South Africa.