Jared Arp's Blog (9)

I have reached out to Water for People, which is a non-profit organization working towards solving real-world water problems such as lack of and sanitation. They are located in my home town of Denver, which I am moving back to soon. Looking towards innovation of systems and logistics seems to be essential in addressing water issues and I would like to be able to give my insight from a professional viewpoint as an Industrial Designer. I believe that taking action and aknowloging probelms and… Continue

Please look him up. "Michael Pritchard TED". You will truly have your eyes opened.

Here is a man who observed a problem, learned to understand the problem and i working towards end by focusing on informing the world as to what is possible by being objective.

Energy supplies in 2020 will most likely be very close as they are today in the United States, fossil fuel based. However, I will do doing my part by supplying my home with solar power and hopefully selling some back to the Grid. My guess is that if the US doesn't open its eyes up very soon we will be in the same situation as we are in currently but 10 years in the future.

Come on US, let's get our priorities straight and get it together!

The workplace seems to be a power hungry place. In the developed world it consists of computer, printers, copiers, lights, climate control, appliances, etc. Though it seems impossible to power all of these things with the power of human energy here is a concept that would help remove the load, Continue

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Self-Watering Planter from plastic bottles!



With this information planters can be adapted and made from almost anything! And even better, they actually work. I have been informing people in my community about the possibilities of growing food for a cost of almost nothing. Think about it, you can buy a pepper or other produce for a handful of pennies and plant their seeds in your newly made… Continue

Though I live in the capital of the United States, food security is still an issue for lower-income communities. DC does have its fair share for soup kitchens and food banks but there is a new problem brewing. In short, budget shortfalls in local school districts are forcing school to cut or reduce funding to items in their budget:



SCHOOL BUDGET SHORTFALLS = REDUCED/REMOVED "FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES" = THE LOSS OF SOME CHILDREN'S ONLY DAILY… Continue

We must not forget, innovators also need facilitators. This is not to say that Cynthia E. Smith is not an innovator but she is able to approach material and ideas and assemble them into a meaningful communication for presentation to society.



Cynthia E. Smith is Curator of Socially Responsible Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Regarded as one, if not the best, true design… Continue

Without understanding we as innovators have nothing. Without understanding we are unable to fully realize what the root problem is in order to even think about a solution or perhaps innovation.



"Innovation comes from constraint."



This statement has an enormous amount of merit. In order to realize a situation's constraints we must fully understand not only our resources but our "anit-resources"; the resources a culture chooses to not… Continue