--- --- # How to Save the World's Forests by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2017 5:03 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2017 5:03 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how to celebrate — and help save — the world’s forests.**](https://psmag.com/how-to-celebrate-forests-and-help-save-them-8e0156789995#.dho5dcfnz) By Bob Berwyn in _Pacific Standard_ **2\.** [**In refugee camps, mobile phones become a powerful education tool.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2017/03/14/how-teachers-use-mobile-phones-as-education-tools-in-refugee-camps/) By Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Negin Dahya and Dacia Douhaibi at the _Brookings Institution_ **3\.** [**This new social network lets thousands of cancer researchers brainstorm questions.**](https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/21/the-mednet-launches-its-quora-for-cancer-an-online-medical-knowledge-base/) By Lora Kolodny in _TechCrunch_ **4\.** [**Could spider venom protect our brains from a stroke?**](https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/spider-venom-messes-with-our-brains-and-may-help-protect-them-from-harm/) By Beth Mole in _Ars Technica_ **5\.** [**Millennials will change American farming forever.**](http://fortune.com/2017/03/21/millennials-farming-america/) By Kimbal Musk in _Fortune_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: How to Save the World's Forests ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4709009/how-to-save-the-worlds-forests/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4709009/how-to-save-the-worlds-forests/"},"headline":"How to Save the World's Forests","datePublished":"2017-03-22T17:03:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:59.277Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4709009/how-to-save-the-worlds-forests/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","medicine","Innovation","Education","Farming"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4709009/how-to-save-the-worlds-forests/","name":"How to Save the World's Forests"}}]}] ```