GenV Campaigns

EVENT: The 2009 TUNZA International Children’s Conference on the Environment

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Status: Active Deadline: January 31, 2009 The United Nation Environment Programme in cooperation with UNEP National Committee for the Republic of Korea will be hosting the 2009 TUNZA International Children’s Conference on the Environment in Daejeon, Korea from the 17 to 21 August 2009. The Conference whose theme will be Climate Change: Our Challenge will [...]

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CONTEST: The Volvo Adventure

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Status: Active Deadline: January 31, 2009 The Volvo Adventure – in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme – is an educational programme that rewards environmental activities and the decision-makers of the future. To enter, you form a team of 2 to 5 members aged 13 to 16 years and perform an environmental project in [...]

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A New Era Begins

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

January 20, 2009 – A new American president assumes office today to guide his country through two wars, a global financial crisis, and other complex challenges facing our world. But President Barack Obama has high hopes for the country he now commands.  He spells out his hopes and dreams in this open letter to his [...]

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TRIP: Go On Assignment with Nicholas Kristof

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

All American university students (interested in international issues) take note: New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has just announced his third Win a Trip contest. The winner gets to go on a reporting trip with Kristof to blog and file videos about global poverty and its remedies. I’m doing this for two reasons. First, [...]

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Inventar Peru

Posted on 17. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Inventar is an organization dedicated to promoting inventiveness as a tool to improve competitiveness and the economy of Peru, through industrial and technological progress. We recognize the inventor as an agent of development, and encourage his professionalization. We seek to create a new paradigm through which poor people no longer rely on foreign solutions to [...]

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Dean Kamen on Helping Students and Third World

Posted on 15. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

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EXHIBIT: Design for the Other 90%

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

While the developed world obsesses over gadgets like the iPhone or Wii, the rest of the planet struggles daily for food, clean water, and shelter. Who’s designing for this “other 90%”?  A lot of creative minds, apparently. Design for the Other 90% is an exhibit that pays homage to ingenious solutions for the developing world. [...]

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IDEA: Improved Ceramic Stoves

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Cindy, 24, Dominican Republic - Heat “magically” appears to cook food for the majority of U.S. citizens. Life was not that simple when I became a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. Outside of major cities, families use wood burning open fires to cook their food. Standing over a fire is nostalgic, but certainly not [...]

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IDEA: Solar Wood Kilns

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Pasha, 19, USA - Solar Wood Kilns. Many wood drying facilities are electrical but a solar powered wood kiln would save tons of money and wood could possibly still be dried at a high rate.  The solar wood kiln is a very high tech yet low tech idea.  This idea is being explored by my father [...]

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IDEA: Pedicab 2.0

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Shekhar, 19, India - The main aim of EcoTravelSolutions India is to provide cities and towns in India with eco-friendly and economical travel solutions. With the rising oil prices the usage of cars will be very costly as well as polluting. We will provide solutions as well as implement these solutions in the cities.  We aim [...]

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IDEA: Portable Water Filter

Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Charles Tsai.

Annie, 15, USA - A portable filter that can benefit people who need clean water in poorer countries. The filter would be made of aluminum, which can be obtained through recycled soda cans, making it green. The only part that may need replacing is the cotton/cheesecloth, although a terry cloth could be used instead and only [...]

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