I'm not an inventor or anything, and I considered buying a solar powered flashlight, but money is really tight this week. And I really want the power-generator that you attach to your bike, but I don't have a bike. So the really simple change I made was alter the energy settings on my computer. I lowered them from never to two hours for the hard drive and 15 minutes for the monitor. Not sure if this counts, but it saves a little power.
Added by Cynthia Davidson on April 1, 2011 at 2:43am —
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By 2020, most of the world will be playing World of Warcraft. OK, a much larger number than plays now, anyway. So I will convince Blizzard to start creating certain quests and when people (or guilds) complete those quests, they will donate a large amount of money to social projects and other charitable causes. In this case, there will be a Volatile Water quest. The guild that obtains the most Volatile Water at the end of this day will be featured as Heroes and get a special waterhorse mount as…
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Added by Cynthia Davidson on April 1, 2011 at 12:43am —
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http://www.changemakers.com/node/6722
I found Himanshu Parikh who won the Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis in 2008 for Changemakers.org.
Here is how she describes the project:
"* Slum Networking exploits the correlation between slums and the natural riverine paths of the city to improve the environment and provide quality, gravity based, house-to-house water, sanitation,…
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Added by Cynthia Davidson on April 1, 2011 at 12:23am —
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