One Earth Designs is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that helps Himalayan communities adapt to rapid environmental and socio-economic change by promoting environmental health and incubating local innovation and entrepreneurship.

Welcome to OED

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News and Announcements

  • One Earth Designs is currently recruiting full-time staff and interns.
  • May 2010: Catlin I. Powers, COO, will speak about One Earth Designs' work at St. Andrews University, Scotland.
  • Apr 2010: One Earth Designs' SolSource Team will present recent design innovations at the National Sustainability Design Exposition in Washington DC.
  • Apr 2010: Catlin I. Powers, COO, of One Earth Designs will speak about grass-roots community engagement at the Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting 2010 in Miami, Florida.
  • November 2009: Sloan Kulper, Chief Designer, speaks at A Better World by Design in Providence, RI.
  • October 2009: Drolgar Jyid, Rural Health and Water Quality Programs Manager, leads a water quality seminar to engage Qinghai college students in evaluating water quality in their communities.
  • August 2009: Scot G. Frank, CEO, and Catlin I. Powers, present on air quality, water quality, inert wastes, and related health outcomes at the W. China Regional Waste Management Workshop hosted by the Snowland Serice Group.
  • June-August 2009: One Earth Designs blogs for the Global Service Cause on Change.org.
  • May 26, 2009: The SolSource 3-in-1 is featured on World Changing.
  • May 2009: OED receives St. Andrews Prize for the Environment, an international award for significant contributions to environmental conservation.
  • April 2009: One Earth Designs is awarded a Lemelson-MIT International Technology Award for our HeatSource Textiles which aim to bring mobile, personal heating to Himalayan residents using low-grade candle wax embedded in traditional Himalayan textiles.
  • April 23, 2009: Discovery Channel Daily Planet Programing features the SolSource Project during its Earth Week celebration series.

About

One Earth Designs seeks to serve as a catalyst for socially- and environmentally-minded innovation among Himalayan communities through education programs that demonstrate the applicability of the scientific method and design thinking to everyday rural life and through collaborative initiatives that push the frontiers of local sustainable design, engineering, and entrepreneurship

Since its founding in 2007, One Earth Designs’ innovative work in the areas of energy technology development, water quality and supply, ICT4D, and environmental education has been recognized by St. Andrews Prize for the Environment, Clinton Global Initiative, Lemelson Foundation, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Yunus Innovation Challenge, among others.

Workshops

Please contact us to participate in our workshops or to request a workshop topic.

  • January 2010: One Earth Designs partners with MIT D-Lab to run a design and construction workshop for nomadic primary and middle school children and their teachers in N. Qinghai.


  • January 2010: One Earth Designs runs a workshop on applying for advanced degrees for Xining-based university students.


  • November 2009: Sloan Kulper, Chief Engineer, runs ethnogoraphy workshop in Cambridge, MA.


  • November 2009: One Earth Designs contributes four chapters to The Bridge Fund's 2010 Waste Management Guidelines.


  • July-August 2009: Amy Qian, Chief Engineer, runs mechanical design and construction workshops for both rural and urban participants.


  • June-July 2009: Irene Fan, IT Intern, runs computer training and website development workshops for urban participants.


  • May 2009: OED teams up with Olin University to present Interaction 2009: A Flash Conference on Global Challenges.