Vestergaard Frandsen contracted Manna Energy Limited to develop the largest voluntary carbon financeprogram in the world.

The program, Carbon for Water, successfully distributed nearly 1,000,000 LifeStraw filters in an unprecedented door-to-door campaign that provided access to clean water for 4,000,000 people in Kenya's Western Province. Watch this ABC News report.

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The orbital perspective: Ron Garan from the ISS from TEDTalks on Vimeo.

TED Blog exclusive video: US astronaut Ron Garan is currently on board the International Space Station with five colleagues from the US, Russia and Europe. (This is Garan's second trip to the ISS.) For TEDGlobal, he recorded a talk sharing the perspective from space and describing the wide range of scientific experiments that are run on the station during missions, taking advantage of its unique situation -- and describing how these developments can then be applied on Earth.