💡 Innovation
🧊 Green alternative to air conditioning: cooling bamboo system
This cooling system is made out of bamboo, hot air and water. It’s a much greener alternative to the traditional air conditioning.
🕸 Silk can replace microplastics
Microplastics for industrial use can be replaced by cheap and environmentally friendly silk fibers.
👟 Baby shoes dissolve in boiling water
These baby shoes are made to dissolve in boiling water when a baby outgrows them. They are created to last through the use of two kids so it still has hand-me-down potential.
🌳 Hi-tech fire detection sensors to protect forests
High-tech fire detection sensors are to protect Italy’s forests from wildfires. The sensors can detect the gas during the smoldering phase of a fire, before it fully takes effect.
🤿 Divers plant seagrass
Underwater gardeners are hand-planting seagrass on the bottom of the ocean in Denmark in order to regenerate the once lush beds that covered the seafloor.
🐚 Mussel shells become beautiful tile
Mussels that clog London’s water pipes are being turned into beautiful tiles.
🌸 Rare orchid thought to be extinct is rediscovered
Since 1902, a rare orchid has been thought to be extinct but now, botanists in Vermont have rediscovered a population of the flower.
🚰 Filter uses moss to clean water
Students from Colombia have designed a filter that uses moss to capture microplastics and pollutants from water before you drink it.
🥦 Huge benefits from growing broccoli shaded by solar panels
Solar panels take up a lot of space and farmers usually want to grow crops on the surface where solar panels would work best. Now, scientists have found that a certain vegetable thrives in the shade from the panels. This vegetable is broccoli.