Showing posts with label global issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global issues. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Nicolas Negroponte: OLPC One Laptop per Child



















http://one.laptop.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

Vestergaard Frandsen: Lifestraw













http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw

http://www.vestergaard.com/our-products/lifestraw

http://www.vestergaard.com/our-products/lifestraw

Dean Kamen: Slingshot water distiller







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distillation_system)

Matthew Pritchard: Lifesaver bottle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSaver_bottle















Joshua Silver: Adaptive eyecare for Third World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Silver







Planet Ocean

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.org/en/films-tv/planet-ocean



Living Planet Report

http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/1_lpr_2012_online_full_size_single_pages_final_120516.pdf



Rio + 20













http://aje.me/NgRR0V

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/Greenpeace-Press-Statement-Rio20-Earth-Summit-a-failure-of-epic-proportions/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Conference_on_Sustainable_Development

Earth Hour



















WWF World Wild Fund for Nature



























Saturday, July 19, 2014

Discovery Channel: Carbon footprint



The Discovery Channel video "Global Warming : what you need to know : carbon footprint" demonstrates how much carbon dioxide the average American family produces and presents a graphical timeline of global warming throughout history. Hosted by Tom Brokaw, interviewing NASA's top climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Princeton University professors Michael Oppenheimer and Stephen Pacala.