29 May 2013. After months of demonstrations, the "Taubira Law" was finally adopted in France, and the first same-sex marriage celebrated. We take a global tour of the social progress and discrimination lived by the LGBT+ communities, at a time when homosexuality still carries the death penalty in eleven counties.

Renewable energy, unusual transport networks, zero waste targets, organic farming and food, national reserves: the measures taken to protect the environment are diverse and varied. We travel the planet to explore the latest ideas from those countries seen as most virtuous in terms of good "green" practice.