Acumen Sexy Sanitation Challenge

Julie Lasky

“More People Die as a Result of Poor Sanitation Than Road Accidents Each Year,” states Kofi Opoku’s Saul Bass–inspired winning poster.

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Very interesting. This is great though. It is a disgrace that most people in the developing world do not even have basic sanitary living environments. Anything that can bring awareness to the problem and actually cause something to change is good :).

Jonathan
12.09.10 at 04:35

Julie, we must always remember the communities that are “too sick,” “too disempowered,” and “too frustrated.” While the American people were sleeping the world changed. Thomas Friedman analyzes globalization in his book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.

In Part V, “Geopolitics and the Flat World,” Friedman writes about the communities that do not live in the flat world. He warns us to wake up and to extend the benefits of the global economy and democracy to solve the problems of poverty.

Thank you.

Carl W. Smith
12.10.10 at 12:29

The Big Necessity by rose george is wonderful and amazing read by rose george about these issues, very worthy of a read, for anyone who wants to understand the context of the issue with humour and humanity. http://www.gogerty.com/shit-book-hints-at-one-key-to-human-development.html/

nick gogerty
12.13.10 at 08:39

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Julie Lasky is editor of Change Observer. She was previously editor-in-chief of I.D. and Interiors, and managing editor of Print. Lasky has contributed to The New York Times, Metropolis, Dwell, Eye, Slate and NPR.
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