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Around 300,000 end-of-life boats are awaiting disposal in Europe alone. Most of them no longer float, but are left on flatbed trailers in backyards, left to rot in harbours or rusting away on company premises. It is a problem that hardly anyone talks about. And yet it exists. The Hamburg-based company ReBoat has decided to tackle it.

Baking bread, darning socks, preserving jam - for a long time, these activities were considered relics from a time without supermarkets and express delivery. Today they are making a comeback, and not for nostalgic reasons.

Annika Krause is Operations Manager at the Steinbeis PolyVert site in Großenlüder and is responsible for 36 employees. Her journey there is a story of passion for technology and the courage to embrace change. A conversation about daily challenges, sustainability in practice and the power of togetherness.

Drought, heat, compacted soil: the urban tree is struggling. And they usually fight in silence. The company Plantobelly from Bad Schwartau wants to change that with a smart moisture monitoring system that shows cities in real time which tree needs water and when. Hamburg and Darmstadt are already using the solution. A look at a technology that no longer wants to turn urban greenery into a matter of luck.

For some an urban utopia, for others a great opportunity to make metropolises more liveable in the long term. A look at the concept of the "15-minute city".

The "Haus des Papiers" museum in Berlin sees itself as a bridge between art, research and industry. It connects stakeholders in order to sustainably reinvent paper as a material and brings innovations to life for society.