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💡 Optimist’s Edge: You may be less of a climate villain than you think
Could climate anxiety be on the decline? According to a recent survey, most people believe that they live a sustainable life.
🐋 Kiwi bird and humpback whale no longer endangered animals
Finally the Australian humpback whale has recovered enough to be taken off the endangered species list. Last Friday, the North Island brown kiwi was also classified as “no longer threatened”.
🔊 Paper-thin speakers produce bold sound
Researchers have designed speakers that are no thicker than a sheet of pape and can be "wallpapered" on the walls.
🌱 Seaweed - the next generation biofuel?
In Sweden, a seafarm wants to show how seaweed can become a future food necessity and a possible resource for plastics and biofuel by growing it in abundance all year round.
🚤 Automated and eco-friendly water taxi
A new automated and eco-friendly water taxi launches in the Netherlands. It’s called the Roboat and it’s now navigating the canals running through Amsterdam.
🌊 Systems absorb CO2 from the air by taking it from the sea
A research team from UCLA have proposed a solution to the CO2 problem and they believe the ocean to be the key.
🌳 Kenyan community regrew its forest - and stopped flooding
A community in Kenya called Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) regrew its forest and by doing so reduced their flooding problem.
🌳 Experimental “super forest” shows how to plant trees the right way
This experimental “super forest” in England aims to show us how to plant trees the right way.
📸 6D explains what happens to a product that is digitized
A physical product that becomes digital end up so cheap and accessible in its final stages that it becomes democratized.
🕶 Ocean Cleanup’s sunglasses fund more cleanup missions
Ocean Cleanup has designed a pair of sunglasses from the trash they have gathered from oceans and other watercourses.
🐺 For the first time in years - red wolf pups born in the wild
There is still hope for the wild red wolf after the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina, welcomed a litter of pups.
🌊 Tides offer renewable energy
The Morlais tidal energy project aims to create energy from one of the most untapped and overlooked methods to create renewable energy.
🕊 Formerly “extinct” woodpecker still alive
A year ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the ivory-billed woodpecker was extinct. According to a team of researchers, the woodpecker is now reported alive and pecking in Louisiana's forests.
🌾 Improved crops without genetic modification
A newly developed way to improve crop quality without any genetic modification might make the promise of scientific advancement in food production come sooner.
🐒 Ecuador grants wild animals legal rights
Ecuador has become the first country in the world to grant legal rights to individual wild animals, all thanks to the woolly monkey Estrellita.
👊 What is the impact of Tesla or Spotify? Upright knows
“My hope is that this helps humanity to understand what really creates value and direct our efforts, capital, passion and energy into those things,” says Annu Nieminen. She has created the Upright platform that measures the impact of 15 000 companies.
📚 Top Reads
We're honored to present these top reads from World-Class writers, who contribute to Warp News because they believe in our mission of spreading fact-based optimism all over the world.
💡 David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that “so-called-progress” is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.
💡 The Optimist's Dilemma
As an optimist, you are often faced with an interesting dilemma: the rest of the world thinks that the world is getting worse, and you yourself think that it will get better – should you try to convince everyone else that it really gets better, Nicklas Berild Lundblad asks.
💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.
🌳 The optimistic future is a tree
If you thought that the successful moon landing in the '60s was due to luck and high ambitions, you are wrong. Nicklas Berild Lundblad writes about how optimism should be based on an analysis of what growing human abilities can achieve.
❓ The question is the weapon of the optimist
There is more to the question than you might think. It helps you shape your future, from a point in the future- as well as discover a richness of potential outcomes.
🐉 Opened or closed will determine China's future success
An increasing number of people think the future belongs to China. Interestingly, that’s what well-informed pundits assumed 1,000 years ago as well. The reason that those predictions turned out wrong tells us something important about China’s prospects this time.
