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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f69i37jIWQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f69i37jIWQ</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Above is the link to the TEDx talk that my husband John gave last month here at Oregon State University.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 )<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Laurie Childers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.lauriechilders.com">www.lauriechilders.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peosyo_F2tI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peosyo_F2tI</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://forusa.org/blogs/laurie-childers/coming-peace/9996">http://forusa.org/blogs/laurie-childers/coming-peace/9996</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>"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 <i>(comment left on the music video)</i></span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>