♻️ Green Tech
📱 An app that plants trees
Ant Forest launched in 2016 and since then over half a billion people have used the app. It basically converts activities with a low-carbon impact, like for example walking/cycling to work, into real trees. How does the app work? Every time a user makes a low-carbon...
🌳 African countries use satellites to reduce deforestation
Between 6 to 17 percent of all carbon emissions each year are caused by deforestation. World Resources Institute writes that tropical rainforest deforestation is responsible for more CO2 emissions than the entire EU combined. Luckily there is a way to combat the...
🚰 MyH20 turns data into drinking water
In rural China, drinking a glass of water isn’t a certainty. About 50% of the country’s shallow groundwater is polluted due to agricultural runoff and chemical waste from factories. But thanks to Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren it is now easier to know if the water is...
🌬️ A couple of hundred wind turbines outside Doggers Banks will supply electricity to over four million English households
In the port of Rotterdam is a prototype for the wind turbines of the future – it has the name Haliade-X . The rotor blades occupy a diameter of two hundred and twenty meters – which corresponds to the length of two football pitches. The capacity is 12...
