Akvo raises half a million Euro
Akvo - the open source for water and sanitation - reached a major milestone on Wednesday, 18 March, when we secured Euro 535k of funding from a number of investors, including Netherlands Water Partnership, Partners for Water and UN-Habitat, allowing the project to go from a great idea to reality. Read more about it at the Akvo blog.
posted by bjelkeman at 10:23

The Observer video and article about the Seawater Greenhouse
The UK Sunday magazine The Observer has an article about Charlie Paton and a short video interview with him where he explains about the Seawater Greenhouse and how to bring an invention to the market.
posted by bjelkeman at 16:34

An interview with Thomas about Akvo, in Vrij Nederlands
The weekly magazine Vrij Nederland has an interview in with Thomas Bjelkeman. GreenOcean is one of the co-founders of Akvo, which is an amazing project to transform the way water and sanitation development is organised in the poorest parts of the world. If we do our job well, it will become the definitive, Internet-based, global online water and sanitation resource and collaborative platform.
posted by bjelkeman at 16:03

The Economist about Seawater Greenhouse technology
The weekly news magazine The Economist has an article about how architects are borrowing design ideas from nature. It focuses on Michael Pawlyn, an architect at Grimshaw, who used Seawater Greenhouse technology for their Teatro del Agua.
posted by bjelkeman at 19:25

Seawater Greenhouse in Holland Herald
Holland Herald, the KLM inflight magazine has a cute impression of the Seawater Greenhouse in a recent issue (June 2007).


posted by bjelkeman at 18:07

Green Futures about sustainable entrepreneurship
In the UK magazine Green Futures Fiona Harvey writes about clean-tech entrepreneurship. She mentions both our Seawater Greenhouse project as well as our water and sanitation project: Akvo.

posted by bjelkeman at 11:29

Seawater Greenhouse - Teatro del Agua

How to create fresh water from thin air, using Seawater Greenhouse technology.


posted by bjelkeman at 17:21

GreenOcean, new water and sanitation project
Since September last year we have been working on a very interesting new water and sanitation project together with the Netherlands Water Partnership, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and The Movement Design Bureau.

The project is about speeding up water and sanitation implementation in the developing world through an open source content venture. Mark Charmer, of the Movement Design Bureau has a great article about Why Open Source marketing changes everything, which is part of this project.
posted by bjelkeman at 09:15