A crash course in changing the world.
In 2020, most of what sits on our plates at dinner is locally grown, organic food. The reign of mass-produced, imported food has waned slightly. Nowadays, most supermarkets buy food locally, and most stores have several food ambassadors in each section to help you make healthier choices.
Now, stores offer more varieties of corn instead of the breed of "King Corn" dominated for most of the 21st century up until now. Most of the corn is still that particular kind, but other types of…
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Favorite Secret:
My favorite secret of being a social innovator is that what you have matters more than what you lack.
The world is full of finite resources, and there is no way we can retrieve resources from any other place, especially since so far we…
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Geothermal heating/cooling is a great way to regulate temperature inside buildings without using a massive amount of energy on the A/C system.
This is an example of what geothermal heating in a building would look like. The pipes are filled with a type of liquid that absorbs heat--so in the summer, unwanted heat is absorbed into the liquid and stored there. In the winter, the pipes draw heat from the earth around it to warm up the…
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