- -: TEDxSingapore - NIkki Shaw - How building toilets is key to better lives
December 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Nikki Shaw is a water and sanitation (watsan) engineer with a passion for toilets. With a career spanning two decades and five continents, Nikki has extensive watsan expertise in both industrial and developing countries: Rural water supply systems in Botswana, grassroots sanitation provision pro...
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- -: TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Joakim Larsson - Our Drugs in their Water
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Where do the drugs we use come from, and what happens with the waste from their production? A daunting journey from Sweden to India and the pollution of active substances affecting the environment in so many ways. Joakim Larsson is associate professor of physiology at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Un...
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- -: TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Jens Thoms Ivarsson -- Designing with Water
December 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Water as a material for art. Beautiful in so many ways. Jens Thoms Ivarsson started as stonemason and fireman before his career within design and art. Jens got his MFA at the School of Design and Craft (HDK) at the University of Gothenburg and Ravensbourne school of Design and Communication in L...
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- -: Water Guns -- Ellen Style!
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ellen is spending her spring break at Universal Orlando Resort, and she decided to take a look at a staple of spring breaks: the water gun! Of course, Ellen couldn't resist introducing her audience to each type...
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- -: Ellen Flips for vitaminwater zero!
October 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Today Ellen took the time to do a live commercial for vitaminwater zero to show how much she loves it. She demonstrated just how much energy it gives her -- you've never seen her get around...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Vicki Keith - Marathon Swimming
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Vicki Keith is the most successful marathon swimmer in the history of the sport, holding an unprecedented sixteen world records. Her most recognized accomplishments include becoming the first person to swim across all five Great Lakes in 1988 and for being the only person to complete the 104 km d...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Jonathan Trent, PhD - Can We Cultivate Energy?
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)NASA Nanotechnology Scientist To provide practical answers to critical questions regarding sustainable energy, Jonathan Trent initiated a project called "Global Research into Energy and the Environment at NASA (GREEN)." This project, supported by Google, led him to investigate biofuels that do n...
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- -: TEDxGuelphU - Wayne Galliher - Water Conservation
May 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Wayne Galliher is Project Manger of the City of Guelph's Water Conservation Program. As Water Conservation Project Manager, Wayne lead development of the City's 2009 Water Conservation and Efficiency Strategy and is responsible for all operational and program activities under the City's Water Con...
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- -: TEDxCapeTown-Caron von Zeil-Reclaiming Camissa
May 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Caron von Zeil, the founder and director of RECLAIM CAMISSA has a Master's degree in Environmental Planning and Landscape Architecture, from the University of Cape Town. She is a complexity thinker, systems designer, urbanist and an activist for the environment, social justice and peace. Reclaim...
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- -: TEDxCapeTown: Preven Chetty - The River
May 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Preven works for WESSA facilitating accredited environmental education courses nationally aimed at building environmental skills capacity in South Africa. He leads the River Project which seeks to engage communities all along SA's rivers in caring for our waterways. In this talk he engages the au...
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