Toilet Hackers :John Kluge Jr. at TEDxCharlottesville 2013

Everyone poops.

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The problem, says John Kluge, is that 2.5 billion of us have no clean place to go, and that lack is generating massive troubles with global health, economic growth, and even education. Kluge co-founded impact investment and business development firm Eirene, which regularly confronts ugly realities like poor sanitation, aging and illiteracy. Now he and his nonprofit group, Toilet Hackers, are putting the poop problem squarely on the socioeconomic agenda. The man knows what he's doing. The co-author of Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies and The Philanthropunk Manifesto will reveal how social entrepreneurs are employing the hard-edged ethos of punk rock to drive change.

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