WEDEW receives the 2022 National Design Award for Climate Action

We are thrilled to announce that Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum awarded National Design Award to David Hertz’s WEDEW for Climate Action! The Climate Action award recognizes a design project for its significant contributions to addressing the urgency of the global climate crisis.

"Having worked for over 40 years as an Architect to lessen the impacts on the natural environment from that of the built environment, I am honored to be a recipient of such a prestigious award and especially for Climate Action for the WEDEW. I designed the WEDEW as a community-based climate resilience hub, engineered to provide essential resources for distributed renewable energy and point of use atmospheric water and cooling solutions for communities most affected by climate change.” - David Hertz

Thank you, judges and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, for this incredible honor!

Photo Credit: Nikola Bradonjic

Photo Credit: Nikola Bradonjic

Photo Credit: Nikola Bradonjic

To learn more about the National Design Awards winners, click here.

David Hertz speaks at AHPA's Botanical Congress

Skysource’s David Hertz will be speaking at AHPA’s 10th Botanical Congress on Tuesday, August 16th. The two-day virtual symposium is themed “Botanicals and Planet Earth, 2022”. American Herbal Products Association is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and their goal is to address relevant issues such as the impacts of climate change on specific crop availability and explore solutions that will help heal, restore and regenerate our planet.

You can register from the link below and join the industry leaders discussing sustainability, botanicals, and planet earth. https://www.ahpa.org/botanical_congress

"A Tall, Cool Glass of Air"

Michaela Haas interviewed Skysource’s David Hertz for David Byrne’s non-profit editorial project “Reasons to be Cheerful”.

David discussed resilience, atmospheric water, and what it means to be CO2 negative.

Read the full article here.

"Clean Water Abundance" By Peter Diamandis

On his blog, Peter Diamandis, the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation discusses how some of the most forward thinking inventors of our time are helping to scale up water technologies in an impactful way. READ THE FULL POST HERE.

“There’s also California-based Skysource, winner of the $1.5 million Water Abundance XPRIZE, whose technology extracts two thousand liters of water per day from the atmosphere—or enough for two hundred people.”

— Peter Diamandis

Join Us at the XPRIZE Rainforest Summit: Pathways to Conservation on February 18 and 19

Rainforests are the most biodiverse places on our planet and are home to the planet’s largest collection of plants, animals, and insects. Countless more species have yet to be documented by science, but rainforests are being degraded and destroyed at an alarming rate and time is running out. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to assess the full biodiversity of rainforests with current technology. 

Join Skysource’s David Hertz on February 18 and 19 for a two-day virtual event hosted by XPRIZE, with some of the world’s leading experts and practitioners in the domains of biodiversity, conservation, policy, technology, and empowerment of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as they discuss key challenges confronting rainforests globally, and innovative opportunities to overcome them. 

Day 1 is open to the public. The second day of the Summit is a private event for XPRIZE Rainforest Registered and Pre-Registered teams only through our Prize Operations Platform (POP). If you would like to participate in Day 2 at no cost to you, please register at pop.xprize.org by February 11th. Find out more and register for both days of the Summit here.

The $10 Million XPRIZE Rainforest is a global, five-year competition challenging innovators to develop novel technologies to rapidly and comprehensively survey rainforest biodiversity and use data to deliver new insights that promote the health and conservation of this vital ecosystem.