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#sonomacountystrong — Written by Maxwell James Hedayati

Posted by Agim Meta on October 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment 

Written by Maxwell James Hedayati / Photo: Peter DaSilva, Special To The Chronicle To representatives of the College Board, Let me start off by introducing myself, and put a person behind the email address. My name is Maxwell Hedayati, and I am a student at Maria Carrillo high school in Santa Rosa California. I have an immense […]

Category Health, Infrastructure, Intermediate shelter, Most important and featured, Publicity, Soul & social, Temporary shelter · Tags Community, Fire, Intermediate Shelter, Reconstruction, Recovery, Soul & Social

Foldscope – a paper based microscope

Posted by Agim Meta on April 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment 

The Foldscope can be assembled from a flat sheet of paper in under 10 minutes. “Although it costs less than a dollar in parts, it can provide over 2,000X magnification with submicron resolution, weighs less than two nickels, is small enough to fit in a pocket, requires no external power, and can survive being dropped from […]

Category Health, Most important and featured, Prevention, Sustainability · Tags Recycled, Soul & Social, Temporary Shelter

ART.FAIR and Habitat for Humanity

Posted by Agim Meta on October 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

ART.FAIR, the third largest art fair in Germany, bring together art lovers and connoisseurs in Cologne from 1 to 4 November 2012. Habitat for Humanity Germany is joining this event. The international charity shows a photo exhibition of authentic situations of people in poverty dwellings. Because pictures often speak louder than words, the charity draws […]

Category Publicity · Tags Community, Soul & Social

Sustainable Solutions – Scientists without Borders Gallery

Posted by kelly on July 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Scientists without Borders is a community that collaborates to innovate science and technology solutions that help to solve issues related to global warming. The community consists of, academia, NGOs, government, and the private sector, across a variety of regions, disciplines, and subject matter areas. Solutions are made transparent so that anyone can access them in times […]

Category Most important and featured, Projects of Disaster, Sustainability · Tags Soul & Social, Sustainability

OpenRelief

Posted by Agim Meta on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

OpenRelief is a project to design open, modular, information solutions for disaster relief. OpenRelief was inspired by difficulties encountered by the founders, when trying to map the Tohoku disaster area in Japan during March 2011. It was hard to see through the “fog” of disaster, so we decided to create tools to clear the fog. OpenRelief was […]

Category Infrastructure, Most important and featured, Projects of Disaster · Tags Prevention, Recovery, Robot, Soul & Social, Tohoku

Habitat for Humanity

Posted by Agim Meta on June 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, Christian organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action worldwide. Habitat has built and renovated more than 500,000 homes around the world, providing more than 2.5 million people with safe, decent, affordable shelter. […]

Category Most important and featured, Prevention, Projects of Disaster, Short and direct, Soul & social · Tags Permanent Shelter, Prevention, Soul & Social

James Dyson Award 2012

Posted by Agim Meta on May 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

The James Dyson Award is an international student design award running in 18 countries. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to encourage the next generation of design engineers to be creative, be challenged and to invent. THE BRIEF “Design something that solves a problem” The […]

Category Most important and featured, Projects of Disaster, Publicity · Tags Competition, Soul & Social

Ushahidi Platform

Posted by Agim Meta on March 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

What is the Ushahidi Platform? from Ushahidi on Vimeo.

Source: Ushahidi Imagine a way for people all over the world to tell the story of what was happening to them — or around them — during a disaster or emergency. It would need to be easy to use. Something that almost anybody could do. And it would need to be deployable worldwide. Thatʼs why […]

Category Most important and featured, Prevention, Projects of Disaster, Soul & social · Tags Map, Prevention, Smartphone app, Soul & Social

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