April 2014 Blog Posts (635)

I feel as though Urgent Evoke should focus on fundraising to donate to charities rather than points and blog posts. Through fundraising and donations to charities we can help those in need.

I would gather a group of both medical professionals and affirmed business people to start a fund for the flu virus. It is vital that we have abundant vaccines in the future.

The regional water authority focuses on protecting the water we have. getting water to those who need it is great but we also need to educate people on how to use water wisely and how important it is to protect the water we have. It's not like we can just make more.

http://www.rwater.com/environment/protecting-sources-of-water/

I would add water-bottle refill stations, solar powered bike racks and community bike-share programs to the city of Gainesville. These will greatly take our dependence off of bottled water, as well as reducing our stress on the power grid and decreasing our consumption of gasoline. (Don't forget to add the map)

When I'm 100 years old, I'm sure that I'll have a lot of wisdom and knowledge to pass down about the local culture and sustainability, but the two pieces that I would want to pass on most are 'live within your means' and 'don't let the little things bother you'. Live within your means simply means that both with resources and monetarily, don't live with what you can't afford or sustain yourself. You need to be able to sustain your lifestyle if you want the world to still be a comfortable…

I would create a short film that emphasizes how little usable clean water we have. I would explain what the percentages are of the water we have, and how much water humans need, and how much water the plaint needs. The video would show the effects salt has on living things and what destruction it can cause in excess. It would come with information on how to reduce this issue and where to get more info.

The people I would call on if the Flu pandemic hit my part of the world to help mitigate the crisis would be the Boy Scouts of America. We already have an organizational structure within the unit, almost every single youth possesses leadership skills, (as well as most of the adults) and there is a troop in just about every community. They are familiar with the area because they live in the area and so the only learning curve would be a small one in the dissemination of information and…

The insight that stood out most to me was managing panic in a pandemic. Just because you stay calm and those you associate with stay calm when a crisis strikes doesn't mean those around you will. The real danger of a crisis arises not from the crisis itself, but from the fear it insights in people and the response taken to that fear. Being able to control the fear and avoid panic is paramount to good crisis management.

EVOKE is much more than a computer game, it's much more than a computer tool. It's a crowdsourcing tool that brings thousands of like-minded people from all corners of the world and all walks of life together to tackle the very real issues facing our world. Our mission is to use this crowdsourcing to change our world for the better, creating a sustainable, secure lifestyle for everyone living on the planet. Our modus operandi is simple. We allow users to log on every week, challenging them…

For World Water Day 2020 I would propose to hold an event so memorable that it'll spark interest all around the world.

My plan is to stage a scene in some of the most popular places whether that be a park, a mall or a well known restaurant and ask people to who work at these places to restrict access from water to those looking for it. If anyone wants water they have to be charged a premium to use it.

Hidden cameras would be used to capture the reactions on the faces of those…

It is my daughters 10th birthday and we are throwing her a party. We now use a combination of solar panels and a decomposition machine to power the house with electricity. The kids love putting degradable waste into the processer and watching it glow as the waste is turned into power, the remaining mass is a great for fertilizing the garden.

Personally, I found coming to terms with uncertainty as the most interesting of the five points. I have always been uncertain about things in life especially regarding the government and things that we are not told. I believe it is our duty as citizens to question the government and to form our own opinions as Americans.

After 23 years, I finally broke down and got my first credit card. I've always been afraid of credit cards because I've always viewed them as a sure fire way to sink yourself in debt and never be able to recover. However, in today's society, you have to build credit in life in order to be able to do things like buy a house or new vehicle. I've always avoided loans and credit cards in order to stay debt free and graduate debt free. Now that I'm officially about to graduate debt free, I went…

During World Water Month last month, UNICEF launched their Tap Project which challenged users to go without their phones. Under the premise that we believe we can't go without our phones, UNICEF paralleled that notion to the fact that many people go without something they literally can't live without - clean water. The Tap Project created an app which measured how long users went without using their phones. For every 10 minutes unused, one day of water was provided for one child. In total,…

During my time spent reporting for WUFT News last semester, I met the amazing team at Alachua County Growth Management Department who's working to lower costs for Alachua County residents to install solar panels. While many people would assume that the major cost involved with using solar panels is the actual installation, Alachua County Growth Management Department planner Holly Banner realized that many people are deterred from installing panels because of the costly and confusing permit…

My friends and I often discuses how we would handle a zombie apocalypse, this is kind of similar. the first thing would be to secure a location and inventory current recourses. The next step is to evaluate the environment / infected, how safe is it and who can we help. Then we collect additional recourses, which includes people with different skills, medical, protection, agriculture, and so on. then we go to work.

Although many Americans believe slavery is an ancient and archaic practice, child trafficking is actually one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. In fact, child/human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. Whether they're sold into prostitution rings, forced to commit crimes, traded to private owners or turned into pornography victims, these children are living in real-life nightmares which usually remain unrealized by the public. I think this is…

My neighbors know very little about our city, it's government or recourses. This did not surprise me though, as I did not know much before I looked it up.