To be honest I really couldn't decide what project, to give people access to clean water and sanitation, is my favourite. I read so much about different projects and every single one seemed very useful. What I liked most is that at most projects a lot of different sectors are meant to participate and work together. For example the government as well as the private sector, development organizations, ohter helping organizations and most important the central community, that is infected by the…
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Added by Martina on April 23, 2011 at 2:15pm —
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Harald Böttner is a person that is doing research at an institute called "Fraunhofer Institut", the same I am working for to get the money for my studies. He is working in a department called thermoelectric systems on a project to get energy out of heat. The idea is quit simple and a lot of people had it before, but the problem is still to get a good degree of efficiency. The thermal conductibility has to be small but the electric one very big and that is physically nearly impossible. I found…
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Added by Martina on April 19, 2011 at 9:48pm —
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When I will go to a festival in 2020 there won't have been much changed. There will be good musicians playing their songs on a big stage with all the instruments we know quite right now. And also hundreds or quit thousands of people will go there watching them. But there also will be something different. Round the festival area will be lots of solar panel to get the energy needed to play and amplify all the instrument the wh*** time. The lights that will be needed at night get their energy…
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Added by Martina on April 19, 2011 at 9:20pm —
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I find it hard to imagine how much the world would have been changed till 2020. But actually I don't think it will have changed that much. When I look in 2020 I see myself sitting at a table together with my two kids and my husband, eating some potatoes, fish and vegetables and drinking water. I will have bought all this in a store near us, where they got it from local farmers, without too much fertilizer and stuff like this, so I can be sure to give my family something nutritious and healthy…
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Added by Martina on April 12, 2011 at 6:50am —
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I don't have my own garden, but I will participate in an event called the "Guerilla Sunflower Days". It's also on facebook, here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/SunflowerGuerillaDays. It's one day in the year on which all people on earth are called to go into a shop, buy some sunflower seeds or every seeds you like, search an ugly location in their city and drop the seeds into the ground! I know that this is not exactly the same…
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Added by Martina on April 12, 2011 at 6:11am —
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In the community where I live there aren't so much people that go hungry every day! I come from a wealthy country with a good social structure, where there is a minimum income granted for everyone. By the way this could also be a good example for the basic thing needed to provide food for everyone. But also here there are very poor people. For the poorest there exists an non-profit orginastion called "Die Tafel" -
http://www.tafel.de/, which could be…
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Added by Martina on April 10, 2011 at 3:26pm —
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I once read an article about a german couple that started a project in a bigger village somewhere in africa. They counted the inhabitants and gave everyone of them one dollar per month. Within this project they wanted to prove that even with the lowest amount of help you could improve the life of a lot of people. And they also wanted to convince people that their prejudices about poor people beeing agressive and stupid and just buying themselves alcohol when you give them money are wrong. The…
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Added by Martina on April 4, 2011 at 4:00pm —
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When Alchemy calls me in 2020 I will be at home with my family and my kids. After we had some fish, vegetables and bread as dinner from local fields and just as much as we need to eat, the kids will go happily to bed. Then I will be working in my office on a new project to aid communication between people to discover and deliefer new renewable energy from all over the world. Right at the momtent when I will need a break from thinking about new ideas, I would get a call from Alchemy asking me to…
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Added by Martina on April 3, 2011 at 3:08pm —
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I think what would help me most to be a good innovator and help other people to find a solution for their problems is to think like a child. It's not only important that children have no bondaries to their thinking, it's also the fact that kids are curious about everything. They are openminded to everything that surrounds them and creative in the way they find solutions to problems that occur. Mostly kids don't think about consequences of their acting, so thats why they don't have fear and stop…
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Added by Martina on April 3, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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