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05.16.13: Paul Polak
The SunWater Project: Advanced Solar Technology for Poor FarmersPaul Polak on SunWater: a radically affordable solar water pump that will transform small plot agriculture and help bring the world's poorest families out of poverty.
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05.08.13: Paul Polak
Transforming Solar Pumping to Eliminate Rural PovertyPaul Polak explores how we might reduce water shortages by employing solar pumping and eliminating rural poverty.
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10.19.11: Alexandra Lange
Architecture Research OfficeInterview with Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky on the occasion of their National Design Award
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09.12.11: Rachel Signer
Don't Flush MePrototype for urban system to detect and prevent sewage overflows
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08.01.11: Barbara Flanagan
The Dissing of Summer LawnsHow one Californian was forced (and inspired) to exchange sod for low-water plants.
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06.15.11: Barbara Flanagan
Epiphany of an Ocean SwimmerEssay on in the insights that come with immersion in the deep, cold sea.
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12.09.10: Julie Lasky
Acumen Sexy Sanitation ChallengeAcumen Fund announces winners of its "Sexy Sanitation" challenge.
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10.11.10: Ernest Beck
Safe AguaThe first collaboration between Designmatters at Art Center College of Design and Chile’s Un Techo para mi País creates fresh ideas for water usage in a Santiago slum.
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08.10.10: Ernest Beck
Ripple Effect UpdateUpdate on the Ripple Effect initiative launched by IDEO, Gates Foundation and Acumen Fund to distribute fresh water in the developing world. Originally published July 30, 2009.
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01.28.10: Ernest Beck
GlobalTapReport on prototype for GlobalTap water refilling stations.
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01.14.10: Jane Margolies
Rising CurrentsReport on "Rising Currents," an exhibition of New York City design solutions to the flooding predicted by climate change experts, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, March 24–August 9, 2010.
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09.18.09: Ernest Beck
PeepoobagReport on Peepoobag, a new self-sanitizing, single-use, biodegradable container for human waste.
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07.18.09: Ernest Beck
Ripple EffectIDEO launched Ripple Effect in India to help communities with the arduous process of transporting water.
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