TED Talks Watersheds and Beer

Being an aspiring conservation biologist and amateur brewer, I am naturally intrigued by innovation that combines business and environmentalism, especially if that business is the craft brewing industry and the environment is a watershed.


I have been looking for a way to link my blog CV-ALES with beer and my studies in fresh water conservation. To my surprise I found a TED talk on both these subjects. Rob Harmon describes a new mechanism that brings a whole new meaning to "water footprint." The image below is from a water scarcity blog site, from a blog in particular about how much water is needed to make beer, which Rob relates to in his talk. The link citing the image is from that blog post if you want to learn a little more.

http://blogs.halcrow.com/waterscarcity/?p=72

The TED talk is linked below.
http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/11/how-the-market-can-keep-streams-flowing-rob-harmon-on-ted-com/

To relate to our current subject in ALES 204 this presentation is no Pecha Kucha, but is very fast and to the point. The speaker does a very good job at minimizing idiosyncrasies and speaking very clearly and confidently. He also uses appropriate pictures with little text. I can tell that he is well practiced. I would be to if I was going to be on TED.