[Stoves] [Ethos] John's TEDx talk

[Laurie Childers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f69i37jIWQ

 

Above is the link to the TEDx talk that my husband John gave last month here
at Oregon State University.

 

I chastised him a bit for getting this part wrong:  he states that I helped
design the Kenya Ceramic Jiko, when in fact my collaboration started just
after the stove was basically designed.  What I helped with was
dissemination of the construction skills to artisans.   There was one
excellent improvement/simplification made to the ceramic part of the design
after I was on the scene, but I did not come up with that.  (I wished I
had!)    In 1983, I had advocated for making an illustrated construction
manual rather than just an illustrated report to USAID, the funding agency.
I intentionally made drawings that could be photocopied several generations
without losing the vital information, and could be read by illiterate
artisans, giving them all the information they'd need.   When I visited Max
Kinyanjui 23 years later, he told me that those drawings made it possible
for him to take the design and construction process all over Kenya and to at
least 4 other countries in Africa.   It was one of the most satisfying
moments of my life.   But I take no credit for designing or creating the
stove.   Just want to set the record straight here.  : 0 )

 

The rest of the talk is an interesting illustration of how an idea can bloom
and evolve through collaboration, specifically one idea he's working on that
might help farmers all over Africa (no, not GMOs).

 

Laurie Childers

www.lauriechilders.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peosyo_F2tI

http://forusa.org/blogs/laurie-childers/coming-peace/9996

 

 

"As hard as it is to believe in non-violent co-operative action as a way of
changing the world for the better, it is easier to believe in than that
burning and wrecking and shooting will make things better."   -
doctorpsycho1960  (comment left on the music video)

 

 

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