Tuesday, March 24, 2009

TED: Useful world improvements


This talk and its goals seems to me to fit in with the TV channel LINK-TV and its view of how the world can be made a better place without wars and destruction. Her work with students at MIT and field trips to Haiti have found ways to keep from killing 2 million children a year by mixing farm waste to create safer cooking fire materials. Seems funny that such simple solutions may have such far-reaching effects in parts of the world, but isn't it great that there are people like Amy Smith around to work on such things?

2 comments:

  1. Good article. Thanks for posting it. It is always gratifying to see someone taking discarded stuff and using it to better the lives of the people who discard it.

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  2. Glad you enjoyed it. I'm sure those cows don't care about their refuse. /g/

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