Josh Kearns

 

Josh is a PhD candidate in environmental engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a visiting researcher at North Carolina State University. His research explores the applicability of locally produced biomass char (biochar) as a low-cost adsorbent for drinking water treatment in developing communities. Josh has worked in the fields of ecological economics and sustainability science and he founded Aqueous Solutions, a non-profit organization that researches and deploys appropriate technologies in water and sanitation.

 

The End of Global Development as we Know it

Development professionals do their work under the assumption that the developing world will some day look a lot like the developed world.

December 4, 2014

Sustainable Development Professionals: Does Your Flight Render Your Efforts Futile?

The Break Even Ecological Footprint (BEEF) concept provides a quantitative answer to the question of how long a Western IHE/SCD professional would have to live at a local, developing community Ecological Footprint level in order to offset the CO2 they emitted by air travel to the field.

August 8, 2013

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