World Toilet Day.

Today is World Toilet Day. Yep, that is an actual day, and why is it important? Well, if you’re reading this you likely have rather effortless access to the loo, but consider this: there are nearly 7 billion people on the planet, and 2.5 billion of them do not have access to a toilet. As someone with Crohn’s disease, this totally blows my mind and all I want to do is help change that latter number to zero billion!

So what the heck can you do about such a massive problem? You can start by helping out on this OpenIDEO challenge: How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?

Unilever and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor have teamed up withOpenIDEO to come up with sustainable sanitation concepts for poor urban areas like Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city.

Go on, give it a shot! And remember one of my favorite Emerson quotes (when I need to be reminded that even the smallest things can make a huge difference): “The creation of a thousand forests is from one acorn.”