Environmental Sustainability with World Water
The world-wide need for more usable water is a critical issue in environmental sustainability. Current water technologies are not effectively delivering the quantity of low-cost, energy-efficient, clean water needed. In this panel discussion, experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector. This program is edited from an MIT/Stanford Venture Lab event entitled “Blue Tech: Is Water’s Dry Spell Over?”
Audio lectures brought to you by Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.
How can a young nonprofit organization make a tangible improvement in people's health through clean water using only the power of gravity?
There needs to be more scrutiny around the use of the LifeStraw water filter and more debate about the validity of its carbon for water deal.
Our greatest obstacles set the stage for new business opportunities in 2012 and beyond.
The rapid spread of social media has catapulted the possibilities and scale of relationship-building into the stratosphere.
Is collaborative competition … collaborative?
The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.
Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.
Academic-nonprofit, cross-sector partnerships have immense potential to influence long-term development, dissemination, and diffusion of technologies.
Projects like Carbon for Water is a loopy funding scheme paired with a lousy public health solution.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.
