Did you know that 75% of the beaches on the planet are currently disappearing in order to build cities out of concrete ? Did you also know that the sand used for construction can be replaced by vegetal fibers such as hemp ? If you’ve just found out, we invite you to watch the portrait video of Laurent Goudet who has been developing for 30 years an eco-friendly material with exceptional thermal performance. It rocks of course !
Étiquettes de vidéo: Portrait
I created the children’s bank
Because Rita could just no longer bear to be helpless in the face of the suffering of street kids, beaten by older ones to collect some hard-earned coins, this former Indian social worker decided to launch the bank of the children. A unique bank in the world managed by and for children. Instructive.
I use nature to play turntables
I turn water from your toilet into drinking water
The rapidly increasing population of Singapore is forcing the city-state to come to terms with a growing need for clean water.In the 1970s, George Madhavan and his team of engineers developed a novel wastewater treatment process that works even for sewage! The huge water treatment plant in Singapore is now held up as a model worldwide, and many recent initiatives taken inspiration from it.
I export Bangladeshi Street Art
In Bangladesh, painters decorate the backs of rickshaws, giving an incomparable charm to city streets. Unfortunately, printed advertisements are gradually replacing traditional street art. In Dacca, the capital, Luc Jonveaux came up with a solution in the form of an original and socially responsible gift idea.
I created the Repair Café
Older generations have a hard time understanding our throwaway consumer culture. Industry seems to have no scruples about the planned obsolescence of the things we buy, which keeps us locked in unreasonable levels of consumption. Disgusted by the status quo, Martine Postman created Repair Cafés, where people can bring their broken goods to be repaired by expert geeks–from irons to coffee machines, wireless phones to children’s toys.
I created the world’s simplest toilets
To prevent the spread of pathogens in nature, Anders developed the “PeePoo bag”, a toilet in the form of a bio-degradable plastic bag, which is then used to make agricultural compost. It’s a rudimentary method, incredibly useful in the overcrowded slums of Africa.
I invented a machine to dye fabric with vegetable scraps
Concerned about the adverse effects of chemical dyes on the environment, Aurelia decided to start manufacturing clothes made from natural dyes … except that there was no machine on the market for small batch productions. There is now– thanks to Aurelia!
My technology reduces maritime shipping emissions
There’s a lot of attention given to the sulphur emitted by the more than one billion cars in use around the world. Much less to the sulphur emissions from 50,000 huge merchant navy ships, which are 7 times greater. Jacques Brémond tackles this problem … successfully, as you’ll see from his portrait.
These wood bricks don’t need nails, screws, or glue
Could building a house be as easy as playing with Legos? It is now, thanks to the technique developed by Patricia and her husband Alain. With a simple rubber hammer, the walls of an eco home can be erected in just two weeks.