**** Water Shortages -- Flexible Educational System ****
The same site that Jennifer referenced also has a very interesting series of blog entries.
I especially liked the last one on "educational credits" that could be exchanged similar to the carbon credit system being proposed in an earlier email. This reminds me of the military GI Bill program where veterans could apply benefits to different learning programs (e.g., 2, 4 year and certificate programs).
BODY: Redesign how we care for our personal health
Focus: How do we improve children’s health?
SOLUTION: Healthy Harry
Healthy Harry is a health campaign for educational institutions and schools for children. The campaign is inspired by Harry Potter’s popularity and is build around different figures – Hungry Harry, Active Harry, Holistic Harry, Helping Harry etc. The different Harrys are each equipped with their own design that can be integrated in the things that children are already consuming and relate to their every day life. It can for instance be jewelleries, measuring the heart pulse, shoes changing colour when you move etc. The point is that Healthy Harry should function as a role model and motivator on how to eat and live healthy.
HOME: Redesign how we live at home and in our cities
Focus: How do we create home and community for the still more mobile people?
SOLUTIONS: DOME.NU, OURA and HOME SHARE.
1. DOME.NU is an IT-based and virtual community that aims at facilitating the needs in living in a world where more and more people move around and experiences the world as being both global, local and individual. DOME.NU is a democratic platform where you can exchange experience, be inspired and get specific data about for instance a local area or a specific living situation. DOME.NU can also be used to for instance development of a housing concept in accordance to environmental needs.
2. The OURA concept consists of ’Our aura’ and is based on the idea that a house or a building through surface materials can reflect the mood and the activities in the house or at the front of the house. OURA has three aims: 1) To heighten the awareness about energi consumption, 2) through this to spread out the idea about shared resources in a housing complex and finally 3)advocates ‘New Beauty’: which can be perceived as a balance between aestethics and ethics, so the surface of the houses can become alive and important players in the local region.
3. HOME SHARE is about the changes that all people experience in their lives. In HOME SHARE you have the possibility of moving to other HOME SHARES in different parts of the world in accordance to the needs that your life demands. The concept does not just offer bricks and buildings, it also offers possibilities of copying aspects of your current home to the next: Smells, wallpaper etc. Furthermore, you can receive help in understanding payment of local taxes, bills an other activities that require local knowledge. Things that are important for you to feel at home in any new situation. Finally HOME SHARE helps with the integration in the new society by automatically inviting newcomers to receptions, wine tasting etc.
PLAY: Redesign how play enhances all of life
Focus: How do we engage children in the play development.
SOLUTION: Play Studio to improve life and create hope!
Play Studio is a global ’children congress’ as well as a virtual meeting centre where unengaged children meet role models their own age who motivates them to play together. Play Studios are both an annual children congress in all parts of the world, partly through an internet platform that aims at teaching unengaged children new characteristics, motivate them and bring them joy by playing. Play Studios consists of two coherent parts 1) Genes of play/ building blocks of play. Here play is viewed as the basis for community and coherence. Children learn traditional games and is taught how the game can be passed on to others. 2) Create your on new game. Through creativity and collaboration children is taught about playing, and how they themselves can become creative leaders one day. They are also part of creating new games that can be distributed to corporations in a joint venture between locale and global business partners. Through this the children’s own ideas to playing finances the project.
WORK: Redesign how we work and learn
Focus: How do we help people to navigate in a continuous challenging labour market?
SOLUTIONS: Navigator and Gateway
1. Navigator: As an active worker in a changeable world you don’t know what will happen in five or 10 years or where you will be working. Navigator is a seminar that enables you to discover new perspectives in life that will help you see more possibilities – even if you for instance have been unemployed for a period of time.
2. Gateway: Gateway is an educational point system. At birth every one is given educational points that can be used whenever they feel like it or have the need to learn something new. It can be used in a sports club, at a high school, university or at an internship in a corporation. Corporations can also exchange points with other corporations. The idea is to develop a flexible educational system based on the idea of lifelong learning.
----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hall, Tru Mark Service
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: RE: Water Shortages --Resent with additional comments
I can see this used by rapid response teams for emergencies, backpackers, campers, water sports activities, military operations, a standard part of any emergency kit. It can even be used for saline solutions, however it reduces the filter capacity by a half.
Maybe we can use this technology to filter the Norfolk River as part of our future water park and lazy river?!
Q14. What is the impact of saline water on the lifetime of LifeStraw®?
It is expected that continuously drinking saline water through the LifeStraw® would reduce effective life to 350 litres.
How can we get the United Nations and other countries to support this tecnological development? (e.g., encourage Congress to support UN funding contigent on these types of tools being deployed?
I would be interested in comparing this technology with what existing commercial products are doing for home filtration such as inline filters (Culligan) or the Brita system?
Mark Hall
-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Adams
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: Water Shortages
Thought you might find this interesting – it is a device that allows for water purification – through a straw.
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