Speech for the Youth Environmental Summit in Japan.
Written by Jack Rose . . . Delivered by Dennis Haysbert.
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When people ask me what a rain catcher is, I answer, “An upside down umbrella”. For centuries, architecture and municipal planning leaders have always considered rainwater to be ‘an-enemy-of-the-people’ – and design our cities and homes with one overriding purpose: to get rainwater away from all buildings as fast as possible. This one minute video from India turns that old paradigm of fear and ingratitude on it’s head.
Read more: umbrellaA simple story: rainwater belongs to each of us – why don’t we collect and share it?
let it rain . . .
To fulfill its design a car needs fire, a boat, an airplane, a train, each needs fire to move through the world. When the car ceases to run and the airplane is decommissioned, the boat mothballed, it’s because the fire is gone. We call this death. Same goes for us, we die when our fire goes out. So, for as long as we’re here, we need fire to move through the world. When we catch fire there is unlimited energy, creativity and resources. Pierre Teilhard de Chadin said it this way :
“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the tides, and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then for a second time in the history of the world we will have discovered fire”.
My “catching rain” presentations always begin and end with a conversation about the importance of “catching fire”. If we catch fire, water will be plentiful, new opportunities and possibilities will suddenly become obvious, and we will have the energy to implement new solutions to old problems.
August, 2009 – Reporter Jarrod Holbrook and RainCatcher Fred Mango document the installation of rainwater harvesting systems on rural schools across Kenya.
CREDITS
the RainCatcher story
narration – Dennis Haysbert . . . . . . . .cinematography – Jarrod Holbrook
schools in Kenya – Fred Mango . . . . . . . . . . . .music – Wabake by Samite
editing – Zak Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sound – Tom Evoniuk
writer + stills – Jack Rose
June 2011 Game Changer Haiti
Hurley – Waves For Water – Nike
in partnership with Nike & Hurley, launched the first Game Changer project:
sport + safe drinking water = Have fun staying alive.
watch the video:
www.wavesforwater.org/2011/08/gamechanger-project-haiti-phase-2/
RainCatcher delivers donated Nike soccer balls to schools in Kenya & Uganda – July, 2011
I was fortunate to be involved recently with the Waves For Water Game Changer Project in Haiti: Three partners, W4W, Hurley and Nike, joined forces to bring clean-water systems and 800 new soccer balls to schools across the country. This effort turned out to be a game changer not just for the kids who received, but also for all of us working, from inception to completion, for the past year on this idea. The result: kids get to stay alive and have fun at the same time.
