A crash course in changing the world.
I plan to organize a large-scale demonstration on the urgency and consequences of this water crisis to evoke awareness and actions! Along with the demonstration, there will be a world-wide campaign led by the Blue Man Group, with the theme being “B.M.W. – Blue Means Water!”
A very interesting and well-made video by our lovely Blue Men:
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Volunteered with, helped promote and donated to A Child’s Right (ACR)’s China project.
ACR - The China Project: Clean Water for Orphans is a five-year project that will target 400 Chinese orphanages and child welfare institutions across the country, bringing clean and safe drinking water to vulnerable and sick orphans. From 2008 to 2013, A Child’s Right (ACR) will undertake this bold and exciting project that will improve…
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During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this basic challenge, Pritchard decided to do something about it.
Using a non-chemical nano-filtration hollow fiber membrane with 15 nanometer pores (it is designed to block viruses), the…
ContinueOn Earth Day 2020, I will be celebrating the 50-year anniversary of this special day for our planet by working throughout the entire day…
Working hard all day long to produce electricity with a human-powered generator that converts kinetic energy from human body movement into ready-to-use electricity, which can also be stored to recharge portable electronics.
This type of clean power generator will deliver…
ContinueTo power his family's home, young William Kamkwamba built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap -- starting him on a surprising journey detailed in the new book, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind."
William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit…
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Food in 2020
What's for dinner?
Synthetic food pills
Test tube meat
Plankton mash
(... ...)
ultra-fast, highly nutritious, super-convenient,
eating = extremely efficient..
-Ryan Wei-
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Donated and volunteered with local food bank societies in Scarborough / Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
-Ryan Wei-
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Louise Fresco: Food and agriculture expert
As food, climate and water crises loom, Louise Fresco is looking hard at how we cultivate our crops and tend our livestock on a global scale. An expert on agriculture and sustainability, Fresco shows how cities and rural communities will remain tied through food, even as populations and priorities shift among them.
A former UN director, a contributor to think tanks and an advisor to academies in…
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Key Success Factor for Social Innovation:
Economic sustainability; provide financial motivation for continued growth over time. Empower people by improving their economic or social status.
Provide the right economic incentives to evoke people to change their patterns of behaviour.
-Ryan Wei-
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