Now you can generate energy and pump clean water by just being a kid. Developed by Daniel Sheridan, now a British student at Coventry University, the Springwise: See-saw power for schools generates electricity while kids play on it. Brilliant!
Category: Environment
Playtime improves health and education for 10 million people
PlayPumps International has a goal to help 10 million people in 4,000 African villages by 2010 by installing merry-go-rounds in the villages. What’s the catch? Each turn pumps clean drinking water into a tank increasing the health of everyone in the village. The time and effort for water carrying, mostly done by young girls, is greatly reduced,…
Why is change so hard?
Why is it so hard to change, even when the evidence for doing so is overwhelming? This article from Scientific American, answers the question Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? It is interesting, if not surprising, that these measurements…