I want to save the world...

I exchanged a brief email with a friend of a friend about possible cargo container work in Haiti... lots of people are talking and nobody's doing... and i'm a talker... and wish i was a doer...

I sent her a link to a TED lecture by Robert Neuwirth about Shadow Cities- a man who lived in slums around the world wrote about them. I was struck by his description of a kid doing his business on a pile of trash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Js_g7M60M

Then I replied with this:

Yes, sobering... but when i dissect it- you can take a HUGE pile of
waste and convert it into its constituent parts, and with some
cleverness, actually build things out of it - but you need some key
components- like bonding materials, mesh, etc...

there are a number of additional similar videos- one shows how to use
small cook fires to create refrigeration. Another how to make charcoal
out of unused waste. One is on a better cookstove for villagers and
another on filters that get out every single bacteria and virus known
to man (i bought one and now drink pond water out of it). That's just
the beginning. There's SODIS water filtration, solar thermal heating,
zinc/glucose/salt treatments for diarrhea, and micromotors and
generators made from spare parts. Extended bicycles for transport,
ziplines and rope bridges for crossing rivers, geodesics and
earthships and so on...

see, you got me started....


=========================which is where the email ended==============================
So I had to go back and then link to each of these items. 


there are a number of additional similar videos- one shows how to use
small cook fires to create refrigeration. Another how to make charcoal out of unused waste. One is on a better cookstove for villagers and another on filters that get out every single bacteria and virus known
to man (i bought one and now drink pond water out of it). That's just
the beginning. There's SODIS water filtration, solar thermal heating,
zinc/glucose/salt treatments for diarrhea, and micromotors and
generators made from spare parts. Extended bicycles for transport,
ziplines and rope bridges for crossing rivers, geodesics and
earthships and so on...




Follow them all...