World Water Day (3/22)

Today (March 22) is World Water Day, as designated by the UN, and this year’s theme is Water and Energy.  Here is a link to today’s publication of the UN's World Water Development Report 2014, Water and Energy. 

The Current Status of this Gates-Funded, Reinvented Toilet

The inside story of how Caltech engineers and Kohler designers are testing a toilet technology that could significantly improve the health of 2.5 billion people around the world. It might even appear in U.S. bathrooms, too. -more-

Why wolves are important

Please watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu6cwam7y2g

"La Mazateca" Video of our stove builders and users

Please check this out.  It is in Spanish, we are working on translating it and we will post an English version soon.

Award for our Clean Cookstove Program at the GTIF conference in Geneva

Water for Humans received an award from the Licensing Executives Society at their Global Technology Impact Forum in Geneva Switzerland in Jan 2014.

Here is a YouTube of the presentation I gave;  http://youtu.be/YoRj3XA6ZQE

Or on SlideShare at  http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/view/30510328?login=rickmckenney&title=gtif-wipo-jan-20141

In Geneva on my way home :)

After attending the 3rd meeting of the LESI (License Executive Society International) Global Technology Forum, to receive an award for our cookstove program, I am getting ready for the long day of travel back to Seattle. I leave Geneva at 12:20, then leave Heathrow at 2:30, and arrive in Seattle at 4pm. Wow I only wish it was really a 3.5 hour flight!

LESI- GTIF COOKSTOVE AWARD.

Last night I received an award for our innovative cookstove design and implementation.  The "Licensing Executive Society International", third annual meeting "Global Technology Impact Forum" sponsored the event and award. This conference - Society is primarily patent lawyers, and IP professionals. At one level I am a "fish out of water", as much of our work is "open source". However, our Generation 2 cookstove will have IP (intellectual property-patents - licensing) associated with it. Beyond the award the networking has led to the potential of receiving probono legal IP work. And a representative from the Mexican Federal Finance Minister's office is here, so now we have a great connection with the new Federal government, for several funding opportunities.