LifeStraw® Personal 'One of the Ten Things that will Change the Way We Live´ by Forbes

LifeStraw® Personal is a portable water purifier for prevention of common diarrhea disease – can be carried around for easy access to safe and clean drinking water.

More than one billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water.

The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 km.

Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.

Please Donate a Life Straw. It is very simple and maybe the most direct great gift.

https://www.imaworldhealth.org/Donation/SecureDefault.aspx

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25% of the World's Construction Cranes are in Dubai

Such are the contrasts of a megalopolis where a reported 5,000 buildings at this very minute are under construction, where they claim that 25 percent (some are now saying 30 percent) of the world's building cranes run 24/7, and the current work force of 848,000 (total population 1.4 million) is projected to more than double by 2015.

A cab driver is telling a tourist "America thinks 50 years ahead. In Dubai we think 100 years ahead." Now this is a works project!

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=Dubai%20Construction&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#hl=en&q=Dubai%20Construction&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv&st=month&start=20

The Route of What is Possible

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.”Louis Agassiz quotes (Swiss born American Geologist, Teacher and Naturalist, 1807-1873)

UPS MAY BE GREEN NOT BROWN

"UPS -95,000 big square brown trucks delivering packages every day. And this realization — that when you operate a gigantic fleet of vehicles, tiny improvements in the efficiency of each one will translate to huge savings overall — is what led U.P.S. to limit further the number of left-hand turns its drivers make."
"UPS employs what it calls a “package flow” software program which maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make.

Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a UPS spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons. So what can Brown do for you? We can’t speak to how good or bad they are in the parcel-delivery world, but they won’t be clogging up the left-hand lane while they do their business. "

New York Times 2007 Year of Ideas

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Airborne Wind Generators
Digital search parties

The Edible Martini

Annually The New York Times Magazine publishes The Year in Ideas. The December 8 Magazine contains 70 ideas ranging from brilliant to quirky. Clearly it demonstrates "What is Possible"

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/12/08/magazine/index.html

Ways to SAVE AND GENERATE ENERGY from The New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=3a9e514db4759318dac57e8e5fd5462862c424ed