Wei Guan's Blog (12)

My solutions is Building drainage system auxiliary power supply.
I live in the city often rains. Through construction of drainage system, the potential energy rainwater from high to low into electricity, you can reduce household power consumption.

My solution is Growing vegetables at home. By growing their own vegetables, reduce waste and Evoke protection awareness of food.
In modern society, more and more people lack the common sense of food.When we are accustomed to fast food, few people understand that food hard to come by.By learning to grow their own vegetables, you can allow people to pay more attention to the protection of food resources.

◾In the next season of evoke Network could tackle missions about other specific topics, just like Racism and religious conflicts

◾New EVOKE communities should try to build up in some place that just experienced a serious social problem, like Syria and Afghanistan

◾More People around the world would join the network if they would get the chance to share their specific expertise.

◾Changes in next season: Specific missions, adapted to recent environmental and political issues…

Using evidence from a systematic study of major disasters in the past 50 years, epidemiologist Sandro Galea has developed a framework that identifies five stages of reaction to a disaster:

Five stages of reaction to a disaster

1. Self-Preservation: The first reaction to a disaster is fear and initial anxiety. People are afraid. They seek information. They do what is necessary to figure out how to save themselves.

2. Group Preservation: With the right information…

I have chose the case study "Developing Working Partnerships: The Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)". This case study is based on a concrete experience in the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), now called the "Sangamner" pattern. It evolved in a place called Sangamner of the Ahmednagar district of the State of Maharashtra, India. The IGWDP is a bilaterally assisted programme funded by the Govt. of Germany and being implemented in the State of Maharashtra…

Tianjin ist the megacity I lived in. The biggest crisis we could face in the future is earthquake.

People contact family members and friends outside on a street shortly after feeling obvious shake of an earthquake in north China's Tianjin municipality, May 28, 2012. An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted north China's Hebei Province at…

A scroll, given to UN Women by a Chinese delegation, has showcased a unique female-only script. Deputy Executive Director John Hendra received the scroll from a delegation of experts from Hunan Province, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.…

Ian Morris proposed that presently money has three main uses: the medium of exchange, a unit of account and a score of value. Morris, who wrote Why the West Rules-For Now, went on to argue that we won’t need money in the future because the human body is fusing with machinery. Soon we will all pay for things, communicate and even surf the web by a silicon chip implanted in our arm or head. According to Morris the Six Million Dollar Man has become a reality but will cost a lot more than six…

The Parducci, Caymus, Conundrum, Alpha Omega and Rombauer wineries are applying innovative methods to treat their wastewater, according to a San Francisco Chronicle article.

The most common treatment method for winery wastewater, a pond with large motors that aerate the liquid, takes up a lot of land, is noisy and tends to smell.

Instead, Caymus and Conondrum winemaker Chuck Wagner installed a Lyve hydrate system, a series of tanks in a shed behind the winery. These use filters…

California has been on the solar cutting edge before. In the 1980s, the state produced 95 percent of the world’s solar power. One company, LUZ International, designed solar thermal power plants and managed to reduce the price of generating a solar kilowatt hour of power by two-thirds between 1984 and 1989.

But by 1991, LUZ was bankrupt. The problem wasn’t the technology: LUZ’s plants are still gleaming away in Kramer Junction and Harper Lake for the utility NextEra Energy Resources.…

I am from China. Our biggest challenge for food security is the land. Most of our food are from traditional forms of agriculture. It is very dependent up to the land. We have almost 20% people of the world and just 7.7% arable land.
So we must accelerate the pace of agricultural modernization. Agricultural modernization should not only adapt to the plain job, but also adapt to the hilly and mountainous job.

My favourite secret is "Listen to the right people. " From Amy Smith on rules for design in the developing world.

First of all is "Listen! ". When you want to create the solution, you must to know what the real problem is. So you must "talk to the people who have the problem – and LISTEN to what they have to say. " Just like what Paul Polak said.

And second is "to the right people! ". Each person has their own opinion. So you must listen to a lots of people and find the right…