Zachary Slobig
Skoll Foundation
San Francisco, CA, United States
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How Search for Common Ground Made the Case for Peacebuilding
Conflict is inevitable, violence is not. That’s the basic premise of Search for Common Ground → Read More
What Is the Future of Surfer-Powered Ocean Conservation When the Best Waves Come On-Demand?
We spoke with surfing sage Steve Hawk about how the new breed of artificial wave pools may reshape the soul of the sport. → Read More
Rural Women and Girls Catalyzing Change in the Climate Crisis
Women can also be the strongest agents of change around climate mitigation and adaptation efforts if we end the patriarchy. → Read More
How Business Advocacy Pushed California’s Progressive Climate Policy
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit org working with powerful investor and business networks to tackle the world’s biggest sustainability challenges. → Read More
El Niño and Climate Change Are Pushing California off a Cliff
Despite the state’s leading role in fighting global warming, it has been reluctant to retreat from the coast even as sea-level rise threatens communities. → Read More
Oceanographer Aims to Turn Millions of Surfers Into Marine Scientists
Riding surfboards equipped with sensors, surfers could collect crucial data on the health of the oceans. → Read More
Singapore’s Funky Apartments Are Like Candy for the Eyes
Photographer Peter Steinhauer captures the bright, cheerful hues of Singapore's massive apartment buildings. → Read More
These Robots Let Everyone Explore the Oceans
The OpenROV project builds cheap, easy-to-use underwater drones so anyone can become a Sylvia Earle and help save the seas. → Read More
Wandering Tourists Look Like Ants in the Vast Gobi Desert
Bence Bakonyi photographs tourists doing what tourists do best – wandering and gawking. → Read More
A Backstage Pass to the Super Bowl of Taxidermy
This year, hundreds of competitors gathered together for the World Taxidermy Championships. → Read More
Africa’s Ancient Trees, Surrounded by a Blanket of Stars
Beth Moon travels to the ends of the Earth to photograph ancient trees under a breathtaking night sky. → Read More
Africa's Ancient Trees, Surrounded by a Blanket of Stars
Beth Moon travels to the ends of the Earth to photograph ancient trees under a breathtaking night sky. → Read More
How This Artist Makes Perfect Clouds Indoors
Berndnaut Smilde makes clouds indoors that only last for 10 seconds. → Read More
These Mesmerizing GIFs Were Made From Household Liquids
Ruslan Khasanov uses regular household liquids to make swirling, psychedelic GIFs and videos. → Read More
Chasing Ghosts in a Cartel-Controlled Mexican Town
Forty three students vanished from Iguala, Mexico in 2014. Chris Gregory follows the families of the lost as they hunt for answers. → Read More
The Violence of Frankfurt's Frantic Construction Boom
As the gleaming European Central Bank’s new headquarters rose in Eastern Frankfurt, a tide of upscale development swept the city, toppling scores of older buildings. → Read More
Why Container Ships Could Be Just as Dangerous as Oil Tankers
More freight vessels crossing oceans mean more chances for invasive tagalongs to ruin the environment. → Read More
History's Most Iconic Photos, Recreated in Miniature
Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger make history's most iconic photos look pint-sized in their studio in Switzerland. → Read More
Meet the Eccentric Riders of Shanghai's Motorcycle Sidecar Subculture
Of the nearly 24 million people in Shanghai, just 250 of them have motorcycle sidecars. The government won’t license any more, a decision that has created an unusually small niche of avid riders. French photographer Aurélien Chauvaud documents these quirky aficionados and their eclectic rides in his meticulously composed series Shanghai Sidecar Riders. Chauvaud took his first… → Read More
Renaissance Sex Positions Reimagined as Dreamy Erotica
Bill Armstrong wants to unsettle your eye. His colorful blurred images are meant to disorient you, and I Modi (The Ways) re-imagines a collection of notorious Renaissance erotica detailing 16 sexual positions. Armstong has long manipulated found images by cutting them up and reassembling them, applying paint, then photographing them up close with the camera’s focus… → Read More