Earth_Wanderer@earth_tracker · Jul 15, 2025

A wholesome thread on Simple Ideas can have big Impacts.🧵 1. Great idea 💡

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A thread showcasing 18 simple but impactful innovations from around the world, including solar panel bike paths in South Korea, wildlife overpasses in India, water-saving Japanese toilets, and sustainable packaging solutions using banana leaves. These examples demonstrate how clever design and practical thinking can solve environmental, safety, and efficiency problems.

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A wholesome thread on Simple Ideas can have big Impacts.🧵 1. Great idea 💡
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2. In South Korea, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath..cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.
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3. This is how you can generate electricity from oncoming traffic, absolutely genius!
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4. Richard Browning's jet suit was tested as an emergency response vehicle for paramedics in mountainous areas, where helicopter support would not be safe or practical.
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5. Australian city Kwinana uses drainage nets to stop waste from polluting waterways
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6. Japan’s simple, elegant and super complex underground bicycle parking system
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7. Pench tiger reserve, India 16 km long elevated highway solely dedicated to wildlife movement underneath.
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8. In Australia, your tax return document shows where your tax money was spent.
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9. Intricate traffic organization in Chengdu, China.
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10. Japanese toilets often have a sink on top, allowing you to wash hands with water that's reused for flushing, saving millions of liters of water yearly.
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11. Liquid trees, designed for space-constrained cities, contain 600 liters of water and use microalgae to bind CO₂ and produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
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12. This automatic cleaning system makes sure that the public toilet is clean, dry and fresh for every new visitor.
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13. Emergency helmets for earthquake in Japan.. its design to protect the spine and upper vital organs. It will cover your shoulders and most of your back.
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14. Zippers on city roads. It is said that it has increased the traffic efficiency by 15%.
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15. Supermarkets in Vietnam and Thailand are replacing plastic packaging with banana leaves 🍌♻
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16. In South Korea, floor sprinklers pump rain water to clean the roads, prevent the spread of dust and reduce the heat. The clean road system reduced the dust rates by 13% and the average road surface temperatures in summer to 19°C x.com/Rainmaker1973e…
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17. Banana leaves as a sustainable alternative to plastic bags.
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18. Technology wise Japan is TOP. Making Electricity from your footsteps