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World Water Day 2020
It is a rainy World Water Day in 2020, but I am excited to be at a special gathering unveiling a project that has taken quite a while to accomplish. While another Social Innovator is unveiling a much anticipated energy-efficient reverse-osmosis device, I've planned something that involved a few more people in its undertaking. It started with my connections with teaching and my local Chamber of Commerce education committee ten years ago, and turned into a stellar talk of mine delivered at the… Continue
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 26, 2010 at 1:53am — 2 Comments
Rainwater Harvesting
Since I live just outside of rainy Seattle, it is difficult to imagine those areas of the world that don't have drinkable (or at least, easily processable) water falling from the sky in abundance! However, it is easy to think about the water in our local aquifers running out. So, my favourite clean water technologies had to do with rainwater harvesting.
For example, just a few hundred miles south of me in San Fransisco, they noticed that their bus shelters were running rainwater off… Continue
For example, just a few hundred miles south of me in San Fransisco, they noticed that their bus shelters were running rainwater off… Continue
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 25, 2010 at 6:38pm — 7 Comments
Free Blessed Vegetarian Food
I just donated money to an organization that makes food accessible to those who can't afford to buy the food that is plentiful in my region. The Vedic Cultural Centre provides free food that has been specially blessed for body and soul. It is all vegetarian, which automatically makes it more sustainable that soup kitchens that provide meat, and operates seven days a week. It also delivers special Mercy Meals to the elderly or those… Continue
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 23, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments
Dinner After a Decade
In March 2020, I'll still be in a Brooklyn apartment with close friends. We'll be eating produce we've grown ourselves on our rooftop garden or a local lot in town, and may invite other friends over who will bring produce they've grown; we'll share what each other does not have. Each of my friends and I might prepare a different meal; I might make vegetable paninis. We will eat all we've made and not waste it; whatever can't be eaten will be used to make compost…
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Added by Joe Sutton on March 22, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments
Future Meal
My husband has cooked up a vegetarian meal to share with friends. It consists of lentils, rice and soybeans, all of which have been safely genetically modified to increase crop yield so that the crop takes half the acreage of farm land that were once needed to grow the same foods. This allows for more wild lands to flourish without being planted.
The meal was entirely vegetarian, since factory farming is no longer done due to the lack of sustainable practices for keeping and feeding… Continue
The meal was entirely vegetarian, since factory farming is no longer done due to the lack of sustainable practices for keeping and feeding… Continue
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 22, 2010 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment
Raj Patel: What Food Riots Really Are
Last year, writer and researcher Raj Patel gave a speech at the Brooklyn Food Conference. I'd like to point it out to my fellow Evoke agents.
Patel discusses the political impetus behind food riots. He calls the tortilla riots in Mexico of 2007 "a specific critique of the government."
In his speech, he also touches on how vegetarianism is more…
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Added by Joe Sutton on March 22, 2010 at 4:28am — No Comments
Imagining a food future
I am a mother, a wife, an activist, a student of life.
My meals are not just about the food, but about the experience. Every meal is shared with loved ones, eating on-the-go is no longer vogue - meals are a time to share food, thoughts, ideas, questions, and more. In the past ten years improvements to the meat production industry worldwide has meant less of a burden on our environmental systems, but I and my family have remained vegetarian. The food we eat isn't that different from… Continue
My meals are not just about the food, but about the experience. Every meal is shared with loved ones, eating on-the-go is no longer vogue - meals are a time to share food, thoughts, ideas, questions, and more. In the past ten years improvements to the meat production industry worldwide has meant less of a burden on our environmental systems, but I and my family have remained vegetarian. The food we eat isn't that different from… Continue
Added by SaraBB on March 21, 2010 at 7:30am — 3 Comments
Cool 4th of July
It is the 4th of July and the sun is at a sweltering station in the sky as I await my food from the sizzling grill. But, I'm not hot at all. I'm wearing a robe that is generating energy from my body heat. Just as photovoltaic cells capture free electrons from light, the cells in my robe are diligently collecting free electrons from the infared "light" heat from my body. As the heat dissipates in the form of stored, electric energy, I feel quite cool as a natural byproduct! Later, I'll unplug… Continue
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 20, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments
Generate energy with people walking and moving
Rick D***son invented a simple, small generator that can be carried on a human and picks up the kinetic energy from the vibrations of movement. I imagine wearing a belt made of these to my belly dance class!
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:D***son%27s_Human_Kinetic_Energy_Electrical_Generator
Added by Alexandra Chauran on March 19, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments
Celebration in the year 2020
The day is my childs birthday and we're spending it outdoors. It is sunny and warm as we walk to the local park where his friends have already started to gather. As we get to the edge of the park we can see how people are still arriving on their bicycles with the children either riding in front of their mom or dad or seated behind them.
The children go off running, making up games or playing old ones all the while shouting in excitement. It is their day-off from school and they are… Continue
The children go off running, making up games or playing old ones all the while shouting in excitement. It is their day-off from school and they are… Continue
Added by Samu Kolehmainen on March 18, 2010 at 1:54pm — No Comments
LEARN1
Though rather reluctant to pick any of these secrets I have chosen: Economic Sustainability. To begin with I will explain my reluctance. The general theme here seems to be - Money. If it is not money then the secret involves direct, personal experience to learn from your desired recipient, which all budding innovators would love to do but may never be able. Thus I am reluctant, where are the secret to obtaining none profit funds to aid the less fortunate? Where are the tips…
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Added by Aaron Myatt on March 17, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments
WaterAid -Sustainable Water and Sanitation
WaterAid -
''WaterAid is an international non governmental organisation. Our mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and
sanitation in the world's poorest communities'' (www.wateraid.org)
Please see: …
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''WaterAid is an international non governmental organisation. Our mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and
sanitation in the world's poorest communities'' (www.wateraid.org)
Please see: …
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Added by Radhika Darbari on March 17, 2010 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments
Sustainable table and Food Security
Food Security has many angles one of them is what we eat:
Why eat sustainable? http://www.sustainabletable.org/intro/why/
The issues http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/
Some cooking ideas and yummy sustainable recipes by the Sierra Club… Continue
Why eat sustainable? http://www.sustainabletable.org/intro/why/
The issues http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/
Some cooking ideas and yummy sustainable recipes by the Sierra Club… Continue
Added by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 17, 2010 at 12:34am — 1 Comment
Farmers Markets and Food Stamps
Farmers Markets and Food Stamps… Continue
Added by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 16, 2010 at 1:42am — 2 Comments
Case Studies: Sustainability in Africa
Added by Crystal Bellar on March 14, 2010 at 1:04am — 3 Comments
Technology is not just for profits!
I saw the above story on CNN international while going through my daily routine. I really like the prospects that this new technology holds. Specifically
I like how this could be used in Africa to produce energy in rural
communities. I had the opportunity
to spend some time in both Nigeria and Benin Republic. While I was in Nigeria I visited Old
Oyo City and while in Benin Republic I stayed in…
Added by Michael on March 13, 2010 at 12:27am — 3 Comments
IMAGINE1
Global warming is the result of a human population that refuses to limit
individual rights to reproduce, coupled with an insatiable desire to
consume.
In 2020 I will be a senior, working with local and global organizations,
facilitating adolescent and adult learning, while lobbying governments
to make policy changes that will enhance the sustainability of the human
species.
individual rights to reproduce, coupled with an insatiable desire to
consume.
In 2020 I will be a senior, working with local and global organizations,
facilitating adolescent and adult learning, while lobbying governments
to make policy changes that will enhance the sustainability of the human
species.
Added by Deborah Baxter on March 12, 2010 at 9:30am — 2 Comments
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
This quote by Hardy D. Jackson is the true essence of a personal 7 year-long odysse which left me at the point where I started yet the difference between now and then couldn't be any more striking.
Success doesn't come easily. It doesn't come quickly. In fact, it won't come at all, you have to grab it and keep holding on no matter the circ**stances. People will tell you that you're going to fail. Same may laugh at you, some will think you're crazy. And then there will be other that… Continue
Success doesn't come easily. It doesn't come quickly. In fact, it won't come at all, you have to grab it and keep holding on no matter the circ**stances. People will tell you that you're going to fail. Same may laugh at you, some will think you're crazy. And then there will be other that… Continue
Added by Sam Said on March 11, 2010 at 11:09pm — No Comments
Social Innovator: Alex Steffan
The Social Innovator that I've chosen to shadow is Alex Steffen, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Worldchanging.com. I have been following Alex and his work for at least three years through many sources:
- his personal twitter account,
- the…
Added by SaraBB on March 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments
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Fourth of July on the Lake
This past weekend was the annual celebration at the lake house in Connecticut. It is amazing that the lake is still so clear and beautiful after all these years. The watershed association has done a wonderful job protecting these waters from the damaging effects of development.The wood grill was finally ready to cook on, so we didn't miss the propane tank fueled grill anymore. The food actually tasted fresher than in the past and was easy to keep fueled.Dad was very proud of the solar hybrid…See More
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The meal
It is 7'oclock, I was late home from work due to an assignment that i wanted to get ahead on. By the time I get home I am feeling extremley tired and I cannot be bothered to make a proper meal. I walk to the fridge and open it to see what there is for me to eat. All of the out of date foodstuffs have been automaticaly thrown away by the fridge, they will be recycled tomorrow as animal feed or something. I see i have organic local eggs and some local cheese. Foods are vacc** sealded for easy…See More
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FutureToday is 2020/1/1. It is just like yesterday. The war is still continuing. It has started since 2010. In 2010, that year was a horrible year. Almost every energy ran out. Every country’s governments were crushed down at the same time. There were riots everywhere. All of the big company’s bosses were killed xdeadx in the riots. Troops fought each other everywhere. Food was bought up xawayx at once. There were no more food supplies in any shops. The economy was all crushed down. All the…See More
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