by Warp Institute | Nov 3, 2022 | π Human Progress
A study by the United Nations Development Program and the University of Oxford shows that the percentage of poor people in India fell from 55.1 percent of the population in 2005 to 16.4 percent in 2020.This means that 415 million Indians no longer live in poverty....
by Warp Institute | Nov 1, 2022 | π‘ Innovation, π Human Progress
Soon, a number of European cities will have the opportunity to decorate their roads with street art as a way of making them safer for pedestrians and bicycles to cross. The Asphalt Art Initiative is a project that wants to increase pedestrian safety by painting murals...
by Warp Institute | Oct 31, 2022 | π Human Progress
The Indonesian government has introduced a reward deposit on plastic floating around in the sea.The authorities are paying 1,700 local fishermen to collect plastic from the sea instead of fishing for four weeks.The government expects to remove around eight tons of...
by Warp Institute | Oct 31, 2022 | Column, News media, π Premium Content, π Human Progress
Sorry about the angry headline, but I'm just following the trend. Angry headlines have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. So has headlines that with fear, sadness and disgust. Neutral headlines have decreased as well as headlines with joy.In a new paper...
by Warp Institute | Oct 27, 2022 | π Human Progress
Australia becomes the latest in a series of countries to join the 30×30 initiative, pledging to protect at least 30 percent of its land so that animals and plants can live in peace there.In total, there are 20 different locations and 110 threatened species that...