Its the title of a recent Current TV Vanguard episode that literally gets to the bottom of the 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack access to a toilet. The topic is covered in an authentic, bold, and balanced way that is informative, shocking, disgusting, even entertaining at times– a must watch for anyone curious about [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
World’s Toilet Crisis (and Edu-Taining Media)
Posted in Insight, Inspiration, Lok Darshan, Manav Sadhna, Technology, tagged Adam Yamaguchi, Aravind Eye Hospitals, arvind singhal, Avaaj Otalo, Bindeshwar Pathak, Current TV, Digital Green, Dr. Arvind Singhal, Environmental Sanitation Institute, Gram Vikas, IDE International, InSPIRE, Jack Sim, Jasoos Vijay, Joe Madiath, Lok Darshan, Madhusudan Agrawal, MaM Movies, Manav Sadhna, Meghna Banker, Planet Read, Sulabh International, Sweccha, Vanguard, Video Volunteers, Vimlendu Jha, World Toilet Organization, World's Toilet Crisis, Yamuna River on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Converting to Electric Cars Could Be ‘Free’!
Posted in Insight, Technology, tagged Electric Cars, Energy, Oil, Philip Greenspun on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At least at $130 / barrel of oil, according to MIT prof Philip Greenspun’s math. Here’s how he breaks it down: total oil consumption in the U.S.: 21 million barrels every day (CIA Factbook) cost per barrel: $130 days in year: 365 total spent per year: $1 trillion percentage of oil consumed by passenger cars: [...]
Dipti Vaghela Wins The Switzer Environmental Fellowship!
Posted in Inspiration, Technology, tagged Dipti Vaghela, Friends, Gram Vikas, India, Orissa, Switzer on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Switzer Fellows are highly talented professionals who have the ability, determination and integrity to effect positive change as environmental leaders in the 21st century. Only the most active, committed and focused individuals will compete successfully to join the network of over 400 Fellows selected since 1986.” Dipti has been working on appropriate energy technology, and [...]
India’s National Innovation Foundation and Honeybee Network
Posted in Technology, tagged Anil Gupta, anil gupta honey bee network, anil gupta honeybee, gupta's honey bee volunteers, hand washing clothes in india, Honey Bee Network, honey bee network india, India, indian innovations, Innovation, National Innovation Foundation, national innovation foundation critique, pedal washing machine, pedal-powered washing machine, Remya Jose, the honey bee network on May 23, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Hand-washing clothes in India is part of the daily drudgery for hundreds of millions of housewives who can’t afford the ‘professional’ male dhobis (or the electric washing machines) that urban middle-class & elites employ for laundry. The process is inefficient not just in terms of time, but also water usage and it often accounts for [...]
The Source of Chronic Poverty
Posted in Technology, Insight, tagged Chronic Poverty, Industrial Revolution, Enclosure of the Commons, New World Order, C.K. Prahalad on December 6, 2005 | 1 Comment »
The prime source of extreme chronic poverty and destitution globally is the unsustainability of livelihood options for people living in rural communities. My first reaction to that statement was that it depends on what you mean by ‘unsustainability’. Villages in India have had specialized members of the community in hereditary crafts and trades for hundreds, [...]
Making Better Surgeons
Posted in Insight, Technology, tagged Aravind Eye Hospital, Dr. Usha Kim, Health Care on February 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Fat Knowledge wrote about a surgeon who plays video games to improve his surgery and has even authored a study that’s shown that surgeons who game tend to operate faster with fewer errors than non-gamers. That’s one way to do it. Another is to do 100 surgeries a day like the ophthalmologists at Aravind. A [...]
Long Time Friend Mike Myers Returns to Aravind
Posted in Inspiration, Technology, tagged Aravind Eye Hospital, Chitra aunty, Dr. V, LAICO, Larry Brilliant, Madurai, Mike Myers, R. D. Thulsi on January 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Jan 10, 2005- Everyday Hereos Column He was here in the younger days of Aravind, back in the early 80s when there were no computers, no LAICO building, “nothing but the spirit,” as he put it, and he’s now in his sixth visit to India finding new ways to use his wide-ranging talents to help [...]
Sharpening Aurolab’s Edge with Joel Segre
Posted in Inspiration, Technology, tagged Aravind Eye Hospital, Aurolab, David Green, david green project impact, Dr. V, Joel Segre, Project Impact, Stanford University on January 17, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Jan 17, 2005 – Footprints Column Note- names of Aurolab employees have been kept private to prevent headhunters from nabbing them. “That which ceases to grow, begins to die” goes the old saying. The Aravind Eye Care System has enjoyed phenomenal growth over the last decade through the inspired efforts of many people, and Project [...]
