Project in Water

Name: NASA LAUNCH program to accelerate innovations in water sustainability

Location: Global

Status: Launched!

Cazneau's team worked with NASA to build LAUNCH, a platform for high-impact collaboration for accelerating the next generation of sustainability innovations, starting with Water in 2010.

LAUNCH has two parts: The Sustainability Forum* and the LAUNCH Accelerator – and ongoing organization created to track, manage and accelerate the tangible and measurable progress of the LAUNCH Innovators (Launch.org)

LAUNCH is made up of a group of core founding partners (besides NASA) including USAID, the US State Department, and Nike, as well as a "Council" of high profile experts from government, industry, finance, science and technology, and media. LAUNCH is designed to leverage these partners' collective expertise, networks and influence to accelerate scaleable and often disruptive approaches in water sustainability- not just at one forum but on an ongoing basis.

Pioneering Innovation & Technology

NASA brings a strong legacy of pioneering innovation and technology (including water technologies for the space travel) combined with a repository of data about our planet new focus on contributing to the sustainment of Earth. LAUNCH is is bold step forward for collaborative approaches to systemic change and accelerating the best solutions forward.

Cazneau's vision, design, and partnerships expertise brought LAUNCH to life for a pioneering NASA team and creative colleagues from companies Second Muse and Big Idea Group.

*The inaugaral forum showcasing 10 water innovations was held March 16-18 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.