📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🦆 Environmental protection for half the price
Allowing some fields to grow back and putting more resources into increasing yields on remaining cropland gives the most biodiversity for the money.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Why we should make the future come sooner
Do you think fast progress is dangerous? Use the seat belt test. What if the seat belt had been invented ten years earlier? If progress in vehicle safety had been faster, thousands of lives would have been saved.
🌺 Tropical forests ravaged by logging can still have thriving ecosystems
A new study shows that logged forests in Borneo have more abundant birds and mammals than pristine forests. This shows that conservationists should still try to protect these lands and habitats.
👨👩👧 This is why the world is getting better and better
The story of Polish prisoner of war and a Norweigan farmer shows why the world is getting better.
💸 Wishing Well gives money to the poor
The money that tourists throw into the Trevi Fountain goes to help the poor in Rome.
🦎 Pink iguana babies spotted for the first time ever
For the first time ever, pink iguana hatchlings and babies have been spotted on the Galápagos islands. This brings so much hope to scientists.
🌳 Man on a mission to plant five million trees
A man in Senegal is on a mission to plant five million trees over the next five years after returning to his village and finding only a handful of the big trees he grew up with still remained.
🚬 Crows help remove cigarette butts from the streets of Sweden
In Sweden, a startup is training wild crows to pick up cigarette butts from the streets.
🦈 Drones will protect surfers from sharks - and sharks from people
Drones can detect sharks long before they pose a danger to surfers and swimmers and reduce the risk of sharks becoming entangled and dying in safety nets around beaches.