John D. Boyden's Blog – March 2010 Archive (21)

I look forward to what others find. A couple hours research, the another hour writing, leave me with this blog :) I gotta say I like the merry-go-round electricity creation for water pumps! Small ways to add electrical power are described in my fictional (but it isn't THAT fictional) story: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/design-a-new-way-to-power

The Water crisis is real. Evoke URLS…

We have a new kind of game here that encourages the user to take action in their real lives. You may not have thought of it, but we are a social action group.. The members of this online game will move into “in life” action. Whether it changes only your knowledge, or thinking in small ways or channels your energies into career choices, it will affect you.. As a long time…

Like the dream of lead into gold, using water for fuel has "fueled" research, dreamers and inventors for years. However research is increasingly showing this is possible. Here are some stories you may not have seen.

US Navy's water-kerosene-based jet fuel

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17632-how-to-t

urn-seawater-into-jet-fuel.html

Follow-up on the cancer researcher's water to…

A continuation of http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/the-apocalypse-march-10-2020 and building on…

Just lol a little fiction for thought... I'm sure some knowledgeable people will post some useful realistic possibilities in response...

Aren't micro transmitters and conversion modules wonderful? Using everything possible in my house, it all now generates electricity. It all started with unused but still functioning solar panels on the roof(true fact). Realizing they had once been attached to a huge water heater that no longer worked, (pure fiction from here on out)…

There are so many resources shared that it is simply amazing. Here are the ones I have gathered this week and there are way too many. I've tried to give credit, beginning a day after i started this week's effort. But lol you know what it is like to be flying around this site trying to do everything while realizing you can only touch on a few things in the time you have available :)…

Air conditioning???

Who else is inventing creative, sustainable ways to power our everyday lives?…

Nothing is more important than family. Everything starts there. We strive to protect. We strive to provide. And we fail and we succeed. As we move from existence through that bare survival stage that rarely allows thoughts beyond immediate needs, we progress to increasing awareness, desires, hopes-and fears of losing…

The apocalypse : March 10, 2020. What are you eating for dinner?

Use what you've learned about food security this week to imagine a meal from the…

Remember: food security isn't about a single meal. It's about long-term solutions.

Here are some ideas to get you started.…

Food challenge

What's the biggest food security challenge near you?…

Story Telling

Throughout history this has been a basic in all…

Focus

By now-and we haven’t even got to the second Quest and mission- you may be feeling a little overwhelmed! I know that…

This time around, I'm taking on another point from the innovation guideline:

talk to the people who have the problem – and LISTEN to what they have to say

Please recognize that it sounds simple, but isn't. You also need to know that not many people do it. Let's look at why they don't and why we have to learn it.

First of all most people don't…

My cell phone went off. I looked up. I opened the drawer where I keep it. I ran through the possibilities. War? Another predicted famine? More flooding from tsunamis or artic flow melts? Did I miss another major Easrthquake? I'd check the news after...

It was-looking at the clock-Two Am. I was finishing another long day, teaching, working with the medical team, and then planting a little barley, outside the little village in Morroco, where I live. At this hour, I'd just…

Here are a few resources. I'll post more.

World Bank: Africa http://go.worldbank.org/DNX9RAH3L0

Africa: http://www.africanculturalcenter.org/5_2statistics.html

Bringham Young University Library, USA: Africa http://www.lib.byu.edu/subsutility/viewGuide.php?gid

South…

Imagine your best-case scenario future. Where will you be living in 2020? What will you do with your days? How are you changing the world on a daily basis?

Reading some of…

Choosing a leader

I spent several days reading choices made by others, evaluating my wants, needs, and desires before I found three leaders…

[It looks like I've lost my earned point from my first learn one post, "trouble with page" continues into the third day. I have nothing but sympathy for those running the game. I created, ran one with a very small team and wrote the online game and backstory, so I know how crazy it can get! Problems-just like real life-pop out at the oddest moments from the most unexpected locations. That leads me in a different direction from my first learn 1 post. :)

I've already written…

For many of us, we start our view from this simple point: We are foreigners. We are filled with hopes, dreams, ideas, and possibilities, but we don't have and won't instant trust or understanding with the populations we want to help. So we have to plan for that. In a sense Evoke has already established a degree of that in the way they have framed the game. Any credibility we have comes from being named Evoke agents.

Each and every idea we will run across has value. It's one of…