Local Water Innovation Through Community/University Partnerships
In this Sustainable Futures Speakers Series talk, Lonny Grafman will share inspiring solutions for water collection, storage, treatment, and conservation that have been created by community engagement. Since 2004, Humboldt State students have partnered in these innovative projects across India, the United States, and Latin America. Grafman is an engineering instructor at HSU; the founder of the Practivistas summer abroad, full immersion, resilient community technology program; the project manager of the epi-apocalyptic city art project Swale; the Chief Product Officer of Nexi; and the President of the Appropedia Foundation, sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. Grafman has facilitated engagements and developed university courses around the world. He has worked and led teams on hundreds of domestic and international projects across a broad spectrum of sustainable design and entrepreneurship—from solar energy to improved cookstoves, micro-hydro power to rainwater catchment, and from earthen construction to plastic bottle schoolrooms. Throughout all these technology implementations, he has found the most vital component to be community. His first book, To Catch the Rain, shares stories and strategies for communities coming together. Grafman will speak at 5:30 pm on Thursday, October 18 in Siemens Hall 108 on the HSU campus. For more information, call 826-4345 or visit schatzcenter.org/speakers.
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