📈 Human Progress
🇨🇴 Apps support “peace crop”
After nearly half a century of war against cocaine, Colombia is putting faith in the cacao tree. If it can be a viable alternative to coca, the plant used to make cocaine, the gain for farmers and the environment will be huge. To help cacao farmers, two projects are...
💡 10 most interesting new technologies – according to the World Economic Forum
Technological development continues to wash over us with undiminished force. This means that it can sometimes be difficult to separate the chaff from the wheat. To get a little more perspective on the development, the World Economic Forum gathered a number of...
🏫 Now more children than ever go to school
Every school day, over a billion children go to a classroom somewhere in the world. This means that 90 percent of all school-age children are now enrolled in a school. In 1970, it was 72 percent, according to UNICEF .More children and young people today are enrolled...
👕 Looop – an in-store recycling machine
Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or dumped in a landfill. Now Europe’s largest and most popular labels/stores H&M has figured out a way to recycle old garments into new ones without the pieces even leaving the store....
