Amy Smith shares simple lifesaving design
(the sound is very low, but the video is well worth it) [ted id=2] “Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an...
View ArticlePeter Haas: Haiti’s disaster of engineering
[ted id=978] “‘Haiti was not a natural disaster,’ says TED Fellow Peter Haas, ‘It was a disaster of engineering.’ As the country rebuilds after January’s deadly quake, are bad old building practices...
View ArticleAnupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
[ted id=702] “With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still...
View ArticleGlobal Village Construction Set
Open Source Ecology is “a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set. The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost,...
View ArticleQuetsol – Affordable Solar Electricity in Guatemala
The talk below is by Quetsol cofounder, Juan Fermín Rodriguez, given at the finale of the Unreasonable Institute 2012, at which he was one of 22 social entrepreneurs from around the world to be named...
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