TED X – a year on
March 28th, 2014
Reflections on the TED X talk ‘Housing for Health’ a year on reveal some interesting results. It would be easy to see the whole TED circus as a self promoting…
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How an Australian Aboriginal health service is helping an African community
March 16th, 2014
When Yami Lester was the Chairman of Nganampa Health Council in the mid 1980s he summed up the environmental health review work of UPK as “water in, shit out”. The…
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Whoops – when the people are NOT the problem
March 12th, 2014
When working in any poor community, when things fail the people who live there are inevitably blamed with ignorance or vandalism. . . . . When the WASSUP team, assisted…
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Starting work in Diepsloot Sth Africa
March 11th, 2014
WorldSkills plumbers and the local WASSUP team started work on the Diepsloot Sanitation project in Johannesburg. Day 1 involved briefings form the local WASSUP team, a final check of each…
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The Nepal Village Sanitation Program…the movies
March 6th, 2014
Have a look at two short movies, made to capture aspects of the The Nepal Village Sanitation Program. The Nepal Village Sanitation Program The Village Sanitation Program Nepal from…
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Linking football and water
March 4th, 2014
Finding a fit between football and rainwater harvesting is thinking way outside the box. And yet this is exactly what an organization with the distinctive name PITCH_Africa has done. PITCH_Africa…
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Asbestos fibres and the impact of the new public housing model
March 3rd, 2014
A note sent to HH from Central Australia highlights not just asbestos risks, but how these risks have increased with the change in the control of Indigenous housing. For the…
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Housing for Health – TEDx Sydney to California
February 25th, 2014
This short talk is about Housing for Health, and the connection between your health, the living environment and design. Presented in May 2013 at TEDx in the Sydney Opera House,…
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The new toilet
February 23rd, 2014
The Gates Foundation held a competition for a new toilet to improve the world. The competition winners have been working on the constructing the final product, and it is ready…
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Design for those who need it most – lessons from the Nepal Sanitation Studio 2014
January 21st, 2014
Poor people need the very best design for one simple reason – it is essential for their survival – they have few options. Design alchemy transforms mediocre, leaden design into…
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Nepal Sanitation Studio 2014 – thoughts on education and improving communities
January 20th, 2014
Here are some thoughts, and a call for action, generated on the narrow paths between project sites in the hills of Nepal about the value of universities, professions, trades and…
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Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014 – telling the story
January 18th, 2014
How do you tell the story of the Village Sanitation Program, in a short time, to a diverse audience of potential supporters? This was the problem put to Australian film…
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