Blog Action Day 2010

[tweetmeme source=”Intellogist” only_single=false]Today we’re dedicating a post to Blog Action Day 2010. This event takes place every October 15th, uniting bloggers around the world to dedicate a post to the same topic, and trigger discussion about an important issue. This year’s topic is the importance of access to clean, safe drinking water.

Recently, Intellogist highlighted the industry trend of spotlighting green technology with our posts about Green technology in the Derwent World Patents Index and WIPO’s IPC Green Inventory.   Patents are an important source of technical information and patent databases are crucial to supporting research and development efforts, including those focused on green technology.  To find technologies related to the treatment of waste water, I explored both of these classifications.  By the way, my favorite way to find good classifications for a particular subject is to do a keyword search that uncovers highly relevant patents, and then check out the codes listed there.  But this time, I’m exploring the range of topics available to me, so I’ll start with the classification manuals.