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Luca Locatelli

A view of London's greenbelt — designed in the 1930s to resist urban sprawl — from the air.

BedZED, a London pioneer of the futuristic ‘eco-village’ concept.

In King's Cross, London, the cast-iron Gasholder No. 8—which once stored city gas—was rebuilt as a park.

A view in the middle of the light art inside the Rudolf mine, revealing part of a ferris wheel, mini golf course, and the giant elevator that takes visitors into the cavern's depths.

Tourists glide across the lake at the bottom of the Theresa Mine in one of the small boats available for use.

View from the bottom the Theresa Mine. In the background stands the elevator that dips into the Rudolf mine.

Look down into the Theresa Mine, located in the Transylvania region of Romania, where tourists can enjoy boat rides across the quiet dark waters on the floor of the subterranean chamber as sound echoes throughout. The structure in the center was built as part of the mine's reimagining as a tourist attraction.

To the left of this image is part of the Ping Pong stage where artists take turns performing on both sides of the platform while throngs of people dance to the rhythms of techno music inside Ferropolis. In the background stands the lightest excavator, Misquito.

Visitors walk around an 82-foot artificial tree inside of the Green Planet, a biodome in Dubai that shelters more than 3,000 species of tropical plants and animals. A story in the October 2017 issue documented Dubai's efforts to shrink the city's ecological footprint.

Powered by so-called ‘fast-fashion’, the global clothing industry – which has almost doubled its turnover 20 years – has some damning environmental liabilities. According to the World Economic Forum it is responsible for 10% of humanity’s carbon pollution, and a 2017 report by the IUCN stated 500,000 tons of plastic fibres – some 35% of all microplastics in the ocean – come from the laundering of synthetic fabrics. It’s also the second largest industrial consumer of water and its second largest polluter – yet 85% of all textiles produced are destined for landfill, or burning: a dumper truck’s worth full every second. As such, calls for less waste and more sustainable production, with a focus on circular economic methodologies, is being adopted by environmentally-conscious brands. Here, beside mountains of discarded clothing, a woman and designer model a dress made from the same reused cast-offs in Prato, Italy. In 2019 it featured in a National Geographic cover story entitled The End of Trash.