World Water Day 2011

The Water Carriers is an award winning documentary film about Callie Blackwood, an American engineering student, and Nina Omwerema Oyamo, a 23-year old woman from the Shirali region of southwestern Kenya. The lives of these two women, from altogether different circumstances, intersect as Callie travels to Kenya as a member of Engineers Without Borders-USA Montana State University Chapter. Their mission: to install an aquifer-driven well in the hopes of delivering clean drinking water to over 1,000 school children and community members.

The Water Carriers from msu school of film & photography on Vimeo.

100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day

The most effective way to fight global poverty and end civil conflict (including terrorism) is to invest in women and girls. Celebrate 100 years of women by making a gift to the Global Fund For Women.

Girls Are Not The Problem But Rather The Solution.  To learn more about the importance of empowering women around the world, I highly recommend Sheryl Wudunn & Nicholas Kristof's book Half The Sky

A Colour Movement Is Spreading Around The World

From Brazil to India The Let's Colour Project is using brightly colored paint to cover up blighted areas.  The project stated on the streets of Rid De Janeiro, Brazil and has spread to  Aulnay-sous-bois, Paris, France; Tower Hamlets, London, UK; and Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.  The Let's Colour Project is a worldwide movement to transform grey spaces with colorful paint.  


Grey is out. Gloom is gone It's time to live our lives in COLOUR!



http://letscolourproject.com/

World's Most Typical Person

Make Ideas Happen

Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and the 99% Conference, talks about how to make good ideas a reality and avoid common pitfalls.

Incredible How Different We All Are - Yet We Share The Same Hopes & Dreams

"With the inexorable march of the modern world many cultures, languages and practices are disappearing at an alarming rate. In some cases whole societies are vanishing. We have undoubtedly reached a turning point for the Human species. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but what we have been able to do is to produce a lasting record of the incredible skills, diversity, ingenuity and bravery that still make up today’s Human Planet."

Dale Templar, BBC Human Planet Series Producer

Audio Slideshow: BBC Human Planet
Timothy Allen Photographer
Watch BBC Human Planet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/