I decided to take the 'Act' portion of this mission a little further. The question of Food Security is one especially important to me. So, I got to thinking about something I could do, starting first with my group of friends, that would spread to reach a large number of people... This is the idea that I came up with.. I'll post the description of the facebook group my girlfriend and I created to facilitate, as well as a link…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 29, 2010 at 4:12pm —
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There are so many amazing alternate-energy technologies out there. Wind, solar, hydro, bio, you name it.. All of these amazing technologies are being developed to help us out of this energy crisis; but not a one of them (so far) has reached any sort of level of scalable practicality. I'm interested in making these Green Energy ideas available to anyone, of any means. Solar is great! If you can afford it =/ Wind is awesome! If you can build a giant-ass turbine somewhere.. I want to see hand-made…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 29, 2010 at 2:24pm —
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It's hard to imagine what my supper will consist of a decade from now.. What part of the world will I live in? What types of food will still exist at that time? What new ones will have emerged? What will be my means? I cannot say for certain, but I can dream of what I'd like to be eating =) I hope to ultimately attain a near-perfect degree of self-sufficiency, so my meals will be the product of my own labors with Earth and Animal. I intend to have a farm. What type of farm? Read my other blog…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 27, 2010 at 11:15pm —
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My previous post was about the Sustainable Food Center of Austin. I've done a bit of research about their local projects and decided to contact them to find out ways that I could help and get involved. Below is a copy of the email that I sent to the Director of the Austin Farmers'…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 27, 2010 at 5:55pm —
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I believe the biggest problem facing food security in my area is akin, if not identical, to that facing most American towns and cities: lack of knowledge.. We barely know how to feed ourselves (at least, extending no further than buying food from the local grocery store or fast food restaurant), and we know nothing of a healthy and balanced diet. We completely disregard the essential value of a rich, home-cooked meal; and we are teaching our children to be exactly like us...
So I wanted to…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 26, 2010 at 5:29pm —
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Who can say where I'll be in ten years? Or even five? Who can say what the state of the planet will be, or even where we'll be as a species in ten years? The future is so uncertain it almost seems silly to try and predict trivialities such as the location and activities of one individual. The pragmatist/pessimist in me suggests there is no sense in planning for a future where there is every likelihood that the educational/governmental/financial institutions on which I would be relying will no…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 23, 2010 at 9:44pm —
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The person that I've chosen as my hero is a man named Miguel Medialdea.. He's the Quality and Environment manager at a place called Veta la Palma. It is a fish-farm in southern Spain, and its unlike anything you'd imagine a fish-farm to be. The ecosystem that they've cultivated there is so rich, that the fish they harvest require no feed; they eat exactly what they might in the wild. The system is so healthy that the estuary water that they pump into their fish ponds actually leaves cleaner…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 20, 2010 at 12:51am —
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Of all these 33 tips, one really quite sticks out to me:
Provide skills, not just finished technologies. In the same vein as 'Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll be fed his wh*** life..' There's simply not much use in just fixing somebody's problem for them; especially when similar, or even brand-new, problems are likely to arise which would leave that person helpless and unprepared (unless of course you're there to…
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Added by Zack Garton on March 19, 2010 at 7:51pm —
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