@sambentley: Here’s some good news from the Netherlands you might have missed! We start with Groasis, whose Waterboxx grows trees where almost nothing can. Invented by Pieter Hoff and continued by his son Wout, you sit it around a sapling, and it catches rain and dew from the air. It drips that water to the roots, sending them deep to find their own. With no pumps, no irrigation and 90% less water needed, more than 90% of the trees survive in 60 countries! Next in Rotterdam, Paebbl is turning CO2 into stone. They capture CO2 from industry and mix it with a crushed volcanic rock called olivine, doing in an hour what nature takes centuries to do. The result is a carbon-storing powder that replaces some of the cement in concrete, locking that carbon away permanently. Then at UMC Utrecht ‌at Utrecht Iniversity , I watched a machine printing living human tissue. Paulina and her colleagues print tiny pieces of human organs, then test new medicines on them. Because it’s real human tissue, the results are closer to what happens inside our bodies and it could be a huge step towards ending animal testing. All three are part of New Dutch, a movement of innovators across the Netherlands working on the world’s biggest challenges. The country that used windmills to reshape its landscape is now finding inventive ways to create a better future! Which country should I visit next? #goodnews #solutions #TikTokForGood

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Thursday 05 November 2026 17:15:00 GMT