MORE TEDtalks on this subject:
• How can we benefit from human waste? | Mari Winkler | TEDxULB ... This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Nitrogen and Phosphore are essential ressources. At TEDxULB, Mari explains how we can transform human waste in those precious ressources and even generate energy.
• Transformation of wastes to resources in Haiti | Sasha Kramer | TEDxTraverseCity ... This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr. Sasha Kramer provides the context for conducting waste transformation in Haiti. She shares the life cycle of this transformation process, from food, to waste, and back to food, while describing the important role of microbes and scientific measurement of the quality of the newly-created EcoSan compost. This model of transformation of waste into resources makes a positive impact on ecological nutrient cycles in a truly sustainable way.
Dr. Sasha Kramer is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) www.oursoil.org, an organization that promotes dignity, health and sustainable livelihoods through the transformation of wastes into resources. Sasha is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University in 2006 and co-founded SOIL that same year. Sasha is currently an Adjunct Professor of International Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. She is also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Architect of the Future with the Waldzell Institute and a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014.... HIGHLY RECOMENDED
• Making a merit of human waste: Virginia Gardiner at TEDxSouthwark ... Virginia is the founder and CEO of Loowatt Ltd, a revolutionary waterless toilet system that creates local economies around waste systems. In this TEDx talk she explains how human waste can be used to generate energy, in toilet systems which can help to solve the sanitation crisis.
• The waterless toilet that turns human waste into energy | Virginia Gardiner | TEDxBrixton ... This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Virginia Gardiner asks us to rethink the toilet.‘There is no such thing as sinkers and floaters’, she says talking us through her amazing innovation in sanitation. The benefits to those living in developing regions, without proper sanitation, are obvious. The benefits to those in the West seemed less so, but Virginia assures us that we'll be seeing Loowatt in music festival fields very soon.
Virginia has worked in design, engineering, management, entrepreneurship, fundraising and journalism. After studying literature and engineering at Stanford University, and covering design for publications including The New York Times and Metropolis, she began to value the social importance of products and systems we live with, and to recognize certain everyday realities, such as the flush toilet, as wasteful. She founded Loowatt Ltd. in 2009 after developing the toilet and system concept during her masters’ degree at the Royal College of Art in 2008.
• Toilet revolution: Shyama V. Ramani at TEDxMaastricht ... 12' 47" ... There is a bit of a metaphor here maybe??
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