(93) Canadian Man Fights Climate Change By Planting 23,000 Trees In 24 Hours
In an effort to reverse some of the effects of climate change, 24-year-old Antoine Moses from La Crete, Alberta, Canada, planted an astonishing 23,060 trees on 17 July 2021, earning the record title for the most trees planted by an individual in 24 hours. Over the years, Antoine claims to have planted more than 1.3 […]
(92) Turning Textile Waste Into Building Blocks: FabBRICK
In the modern age of rapid consumption and fast fashion, unwanted clothes often end up in the trash. Clarisse Merlet, an ingenious entrepreneur, defied the odds and thought outside the box to create a solution to the textile waste problem. Brimming with determination, she embarked on a quest to convert discarded textiles into something extraordinary […]
(91) Fionn Ferreira: Removing Microplastics From Water
Irish environmentalist Fionn Ferreira has won third place in the Young Inventors Prize at the European Inventor Award 2023. He created a way to remove microplastics from water using a unique magnetic mixture. The 22-year-old chemistry master’s degree student and teaching assistant at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, created Ferrofluid, a magnetic liquid […]
(90) Europe’s Largest Green Facade
Eight kilometres of green hedges, some 30,000 plants in total, cover the surface of the Ko-Bogen II in the heart of Dusseldorf. Consequently, Kö-Bogen II’s facade hedges were chosen for their microclimate improving qualities: they protect the building against sun rays in summer, and by doing so reduce the overall urban heat in their surroundings. […]
(89) Shredded Diapers Could Replace 40% of Concrete Sand in Construction
Seeking to find sustainable solutions to low-cost housing in Indonesia, scientists in the world’s third-most-populous nation hypothesized that used diapers could replace some of the sand in concrete mixtures. Disposable diapers are usually manufactured from wood pulp, cotton, viscose rayon, and plastics such as polyester, polyethylene, and polypropylene, they are the Third most common item […]
(88) Why Loneliness Could Be The Biggest Threat To Your Health
Loneliness has become more pervasive than before, and it is important to take this issue seriously. In present times the society is moving towards more and more individualistic way of living and there is a lot of isolation that is detrimental for all age groups, especially for children and the elderly. Lonely people are at […]
(87) Couple Created New Rainforest By Planting 2 Million Trees Over 20 Years
A married couple had helped breathe new life into the world’s lungs by restoring a barren plot of land into a healthy rainforest. Photojournalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado and his wife Lélia decided to replant the forest seeing how the area around his family’s cattle ranch had diminished. Now 20 years later, the 1,754-acre plot of […]
(86) New Zealand Bans Smoking For Future Generations
New Zealanders born on and after 1st January 2009 cannot buy cigarettes as a part of a package of anti-smoking laws. This means that the base age for buying cancer-causing smoke-sticks will keep going up for the citizens of New Zealand. This law has been passed after decades of hard work by the anti-smoking/tobacco organisations, […]
(85) Singapore Is Leading The Way In Recycling Wastewater
Singapore is taking the “waste” out of its wastewater by turning sewage into safe, clean drinking water using an advanced filtration and treatment system. The Changi Water Reclamation Plant forms the core of the system, with capacity to treat up to 900 million litres of wastewater daily – roughly equivalent to the water held by […]
(84) Bangladesh’s Farmers Revive Floating Farms As Seas Rise
Farmers in southwestern Bangladesh have revived a 200-year-old agricultural practice to battle the challenges emanating from floods, hurricanes and rising sea levels. The unique method, now practiced by about 6,000 farmers, may prove crucial in sustaining agriculture during a period of erratic monsoons and worsening climate crisis. The rafts, where farmers grow radish, cucumber, papaya, […]