Bryan Alexander's Posts - Urgent Evoke2024-03-29T14:52:23ZBryan Alexanderhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/BryanAlexanderhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2209186802?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=BryanAlexander&xn_auth=noRepowering the oventag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-26:4871302:BlogPost:1053382010-04-26T18:27:33.000ZBryan Alexanderhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/BryanAlexander
I use an oven every day. Lots of baking, plus broiling, reheating, etc.<br></br><br></br>Up here in the mountains, supplying the oven with gas is, at best, tricky, as trucks have to find their way to this remote spot. That's in good weather. <br></br><br></br>How to power an oven without gas?<br></br><br></br><ol>
<li>Well, the first step is to move the oven <span style="font-style: italic;">function</span> outside. We don't get a lot of sun in Vermont, especially in the forest. So I'd have to identify a spot which…</li>
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I use an oven every day. Lots of baking, plus broiling, reheating, etc.<br/><br/>Up here in the mountains, supplying the oven with gas is, at best, tricky, as trucks have to find their way to this remote spot. That's in good weather. <br/><br/>How to power an oven without gas?<br/><br/><ol>
<li>Well, the first step is to move the oven <span style="font-style: italic;">function</span> outside. We don't get a lot of sun in Vermont, especially in the forest. So I'd have to identify a spot which gets maximum solar.</li>
<li>Planning a solar oven. This means getting plans, <a href="http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/solarcoo.htm">like the ones linked from here</a>. <br/></li>
<li>Building the thing. I have plenty of cardboard (recycling). Time to scavenge foil.</li>
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Let's see how much cooking we can get done with this.<br/>Blogging for local foodtag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-22:4871302:BlogPost:1006202010-04-22T17:09:50.000ZBryan Alexanderhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/BryanAlexander
We maintain <a href="http://riptonite.blogspot.com/">a community blog</a> for our little mountain town. It's for general news and, well, life.<br/><br/>Now I'll make a point of including food news. It makes sense, since many of us either raise our own crops and animals, or are actually professional farmers.<br/>
We maintain <a href="http://riptonite.blogspot.com/">a community blog</a> for our little mountain town. It's for general news and, well, life.<br/><br/>Now I'll make a point of including food news. It makes sense, since many of us either raise our own crops and animals, or are actually professional farmers.<br/>Social innovation: one themetag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-13:4871302:BlogPost:340402010-03-13T01:24:17.000ZBryan Alexanderhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/BryanAlexander
<br></br>How can we help a society innovate? I explored <a href="http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/innovation-in-africa-tips/">this set of social innovation tips</a>, in response to <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/social-innovation-learn">this prompt</a>. <br></br><br></br>Said prompt also asks me to identify one of those strategies or approaches, and I do so here:<br></br><br></br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">6 Share knowledge and skills to continue the…</span></div>
<br/>How can we help a society innovate? I explored <a href="http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/innovation-in-africa-tips/">this set of social innovation tips</a>, in response to <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/social-innovation-learn">this prompt</a>. <br/><br/>Said prompt also asks me to identify one of those strategies or approaches, and I do so here:<br/><br/><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">6 Share knowledge and skills to continue the innovative process both to and from people and communities.<br/><br/></span></div>
It's a powerful force,such openness. It involves trusting a community, even a world, to care for your thoughts. There's an assumption of being a "prosumer," both creating and consuming.<br/><br/>It's a potent, even troubling force in education, where we are concerned to both share and conserve.<div><p style="text-align: left;"><img width="721" src="http://api.ning.com/files/8NgxhB3ocZ*u6M5XfR*1JU8oUpHKyCFMgf7uL3zAkYaZNJuyow4Oy6jydEN8M3gYaxz5SvrT7Sfpjug7Pp2Y6s4lVI-jS2Sb/SOLNpin.jpg?width=721" alt=""/></p>
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<div>It's the force behind committees of correspondence, between scientists building knowledge, among networks and the open source movement. But is it an Invisible College?</div>