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WaterHealth International - Leading the Blue Revolution

WaterHealth firm provides clean and safe water to save lives. Efforts in India discussed in Aug. 14, 2007 Wall Street Journal article. (more on NextBillion). Similar technology can provide major public health advance for Africa. See company website with details. Founder and President is Ghanaian Dr. Tralance Addy.

Drawing clean water from the air. Science Daily reports new dew-collecting technology to draw clean water from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. According to the article: "one 315 sq ft unit can extract a minimum of 48 liters of fresh water per day. Depending upon the number of collucters used, an unlimited daily supply of water could be produced even in remote and polluted places."

Grameen Foundation Empowering people. Changing lives. Invovating for the world's poor.

Microfinance linked to health care improvements explains 2006 Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at the 4th World Health Care Congress

Grameen Bank offers small loans to the poor, allowing them to escape local moneylenders: "the important thing is they must pay something, they must feel that this is a service they are buying, so that they feel equal, they don’t feel small. When you are taking something free, you feel small. You cannot claim, you cannot demand something, because you have not established any claim because you’re not paying. Payment is a claim that I do this and you do this. It’s a kind of two-way relationship.".

I was introduced to Milton Friedman some years ago at a Pacific Research Institute conference on immigration. Nervous and not knowing what to say, I blurted out "I really like your ideas!" Milton showed me his trademark smile and said with emphasis "They are not my ideas"! He knew I was referring not to the scholarly economic work that had won him a Nobel Prize in Economics (which were his ideas), but to the classical liberal ideas in his book Capitalism and Freedom and in the TV documentary series Free to Choose. -- Greg Rehmke

John Quincy Adams' July 4th, 1821 speech. Often quoted from on the internet for his brief mention of foreign policy ("America does not go abroad searching for monsters to destroy"). But the rest of the speech is a broader discussion of the principles of liberty. Click here for beginning of Adams' speech on our ET Blog (with links to pamphlet with full speech).

Institute for Economic Studies Seminars for college students at IES-Europe Summer University.