SDG 13 | Reimagining Human Waste Management in Arctic Communities | Henry Glogau & Nathan Baring

<p>Have you ever thought about how much human waste is in nature?💩</p> <p><strong>Welcome back SDG Talkers!! </strong>Thanks for joining us for another episode of highlighting change makers and their inspirational work towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)!</p> <p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p>- What you need to do if you seek real change</p> <p>- How to combine ‘low tech’ and local context for maximum social impact</p> <p>- Why patience and persistence are key</p> <p>Hear from Henry Glogau and Nathan Baring - two winning team members from <a href="https://unleash.org/portfolio/loopoop/" target="_blank">UNLEASH Greenland Lab</a>! Their teammates <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hornheidarsdottir/" target="_blank">Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir</a>, a Project Lead at Transition Labs, and Sofie Jordheim, a research assistant for The University of Bergen's Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, couldn't join us for this chat, but have been just as pivotal in creating LooPoop.</p> <p><a href="https://unleash.org/portfolio/loopoop/" target="_blank">LooPoop</a> is a reimagined approach for the management of human waste in remote Arctic communities. It closes the loop and provides the potential for economic opportunities in local communities. The current situation in many remote Arctic communities is unsustainable and not environmentally friendly, with human waste being left out in nature or dumped into the ocean in plastic bags. Starting in the bathroom, Loopoop converts urine into fertilizer and turns the feces into soil. The soil and fertilizer can then be used for local food production. Loopoop’s mission is a clean environment and a sustainable and dignified waste management system that offers the opportunity for added value to a previously discarded resource.</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/henryglogau/" target="_blank">Henry Glogau</a> is a New Zealand Architect working at GXN Innovation in Copenhagen, Denmark. He specializes in Architecture in Extreme