Tagged 'Whitman Direct Action'

Apr 4, 2009Presentation: Reinventing Direct Action

Reinventing Direct Action, 4 April 2009 View more presentations from danielbachhuber. I’m giving this presentation today as a part of a panel at a global health weekend my friend Alex Goodell spent a significant amount of time putting together. The conference is “You Can’t Crush a Louse with Only One Thumb: Integrating Biomedical & Sociocultural [...]

Mar 25, 2009Silent killer

A woman from Nanegaon in the Kolwan Valley west of Pune carries water home past the heavily-fertilized sugarcane fields near her community’s open well. Sugarcane requires copious amounts of water and heavy fertilization, most commonly with a nitrate-based urea. Although not fully understood, excess amounts of nitrates have been associated with methaemoglobinaemia, a potentially life-threatening [...]

Jan 14, 2009Sadhana Clean Water Project presentation to PCC

At about 0800 hours tomorrow morning, or today based on your timezone, I’ll be giving a presentation to the Asian Studies Program at Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus. 20090114 Pcc Rock Creek Presentation  View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. It’s a longer, more in-depth version of the one I gave in November, which [...]

Nov 22, 2008#india08 presentation to IIT alumni

This afternoon, after about 4 months of postponing, I finally gave a promised presentation on the Sadhana Clean Water Project and my journey through India this spring. The lucky audience was Portland-area IIT alumni; it was my return favor for the wonderful advice I received before the trip from a Mr. Harbans Lal, an environmental engineer, neighbor, and now [...]

Jul 26, 2008Glimpses of a subcontinent

Two months after the fact, I’ve started processing images from my journey around the Indian subcontinent. No particular rhyme or reason to what I’m putting up at the moment, just whatever catches my eye. I think, when I’ve worked through the body of a few thousand images, I’ll compose more of a narrative to weave [...]

Mar 25, 2008India at the core, abridged

It’s been a long, short time since I wrote last. At the point where your life intersects completely with you work, it is quite difficult to take a moment and reflect on what you’ve accomplished. The writing in my personal journal has suffered too; only ten entries dot the pages from the last few weeks. [...]