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Video - Girl Effect. Here are three solid reasons why we want you to invest your time, energy and capital in an adolescent girl 1. Girls are agents of change They play a crucial role in solving the most persistent development problems facing the world today. By investing in their economic potential through education and by delaying child marriage and teen pregnancy, issues such as HIV and AIDS can be resolved and the cycle of poverty can be broken.

To learn how a girl's success is the world's success, watch the girl effect films above. 2. People assume girls are being reached They're not. 3. In India, adolescent pregnancy results in nearly $10billion in lost potential income. The question isn't: 'Why girls? ' The question is: 'Why wait? ' Get the latest facts. This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die | Design for Good. You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree.

Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer. I, personally, would much rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone. Big Think. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Inside Out. JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out.