Bernelle Verster
Bernelle Verster

Water Maverick

When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men. - Rumi

Bernelle is a Bioprocess Engineer. She is known as a Water Maverick and all round disrupter who somehow always manages to shift the bigger system by pushing hard against existing structures.

She believes an integrated approach to education, resource management and profitability is achievable.

Her passion is using interfaces to learn to change systems: At once within and apart.

Lack of work, lack of hope, and shortages of satisfaction and security are often not just isolated pathologies but result from the intimate connections among the waste of resources, of money, and of people. The solutions are equally intertwined. - Amory Lovins, In 'Inventing for the Environment'.


visual complexity
visual complexity

Making a difference AND/OR ticking all the boxes?

Food security chained chicken
Food security chained chicken

Food Water and Cities: Taking a citizen systems approach

TEDx Event: TEDxCapeTown 2011

Be Water My Friend

TEDxCapeTown: what we play is life
TEDxCapeTown: what we play is life
TEDx Event: TEDxCapeTown 2012

What We Play is Life

BLAQ PEARL, Speaker TEDxCapeTown 2012
BLAQ PEARL, Speaker TEDxCapeTown 2012
TEDx Event: TEDxCapeTown 2013

Amazing People, Crazy Places

TEDxCapeTown City2.0
TEDxCapeTown City2.0
TEDx Event: TEDxCity2.0

TEDxCity2.0: A worldwide day of urban inspiration

Mfuleni attendees
Mfuleni attendees
TEDx Event: TEDxMfuleni

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