❤️ Money can grow on trees & other stories

7 examples of tech that really cares for the planet

With the world undergoing a digital transformation, this February we've been celebrating Tech with heart – from the simple software solving hard problems and our favourite open source platforms to VR and robots for good. This week we're saluting seven brilliant examples of apps, citizen science platforms and cleantech projects that protect the trees, the bees and the coral reefs.

As money makes the world go round, let's start in Estonia with Andrus and Merit (pictured above), who want us all to invest in the bank of nature...

🌲 1 Money can grow on trees

“This combines my two passions: fixing the environmental crisis and scalable game-changing technologies.” – Merit Valdsalu

ESTONIA – Save the forests and earn money with this new Estonian "stock exchange for biodiversity". Trading app Single.Earth uses the blockchain to connect forests and wetlands to buyers. But it’s not cutting down the trees. It’s selling carbon offsets. Property owners get paid for doing NOTHING!

Nature is the new gold ► EN / ES / CAT

🐝 2 Sensors save the bees

“We must learn to be better beekeepers to respond in a connected way to the stresses and threats.” – Jonathan Minchin

CATALONIA – Fancy fabricating your own sensor-enhanced beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together for OSBeehives, a massive open source citizen science experiment, so that you can.

Help bees to ‘bee’ happier ► EN / ES / CAT

🐠 3 How to create fake coral

"Any swimmer will witness particles of water move in orbits beneath the ocean. We harness surge motion to create power." – Will Bateman

UK – Coastlines and beaches are living, dynamic landscapes; they evolve and erode. Bio-Inspired solution CCell is harnessing biomimicry tech to grow beautiful artificial reefs with the world’s first eco-based coastal protection powered by waves.

Protect beaches, grow reefs ► EN / ES / CAT

💰 4 Invest in a better world

“Finances should be stacked in favour of the user and benefit the planet to shake up the industry.” – Tom McGillycuddy

UK – Is your money a direct cause of greenhouse gas emissions? The Tickr app inspires millennials to engage with finance by offering investments in funds that generate social and environmental benefits.

Investments with impact ► EN / ES / CAT

🔭 5 Help scientists from home

Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving home.

UK – Zooniverse is a great reason to stare out of the window or at your laptop in the name of data. The world’s leading citizen science platform uses simple tech to bring together people from all over the world to solve our biggest global challenges.

All you need is the Internet ► EN / ES / CAT

🌱 6 Surf the web to plant trees

“We hope to be recognised as an alternative search engine by all major browsers including Chrome, Firefox & Safari." – Christian Kroll

GERMANY – Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world’s most threatened biodiversity hotspots. All trees should be celebrated. So, how about financing the planting of a billion trees every year?

Click to fight climate change ► EN / ES / CAT

📲 7 Youth share action videos

“Our biggest impact is in enabling the collective power of millions of small, individual actions by everyday people.” – Johannah Maher (middle)

DENMARK – This fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the "ultimate competition to save the world" with collaborative global impact. Launching soon, Impactr wants to become the world's new digital home for youth-led social action. V cool.

Mainstreaming sustainability ► EN / ES / CAT

Atlas loves ❤️ Explore more projects

🔴 Look in the Red Mirror

AtlasAgenda: 25 Feb-11 July, Barcelona

This timely exhibition is right up our street! Launching today at Barcelona's CCCB (home to our 'Fixing the future' events), Mars. The Red Mirror looks at our relationship with the Red Planet. Science, art and literature come together to explore our future as three space missions head to Mars.

Buy your tickets ► EN / ES / CAT

🚀 The future today

Take a journey through today's home page

RWANDA – Drones deliver one million vaccines

US – Robo-cycling a world without waste

UGANDA – Transforming Uganda with robots

US – A cyborg future for our knees

NETHERLANDS – The alternative Internet

GLOBAL FUN – The future of sextech

⚡ Next month on Atlas of the Future

circular economy (noun)

an alternative regenerative system prioritising the longevity of goods by sharing or recycling – in contrast to the linear economy’s ‘take, make, dispose’ model of production

♻️ Be part of A Circular World

We are living in a material world and less is more. That's why we're dedicating the month of March to
'A Circular World' – mapping projects with a material twist, nature's alternatives to plastic, strange substances, upcycled oddities and DIY solutions. Because closing loops prevents more new production. And we're all about that.

► Add a circular project to the Atlas

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