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IMAGINE6 The Future of Women

In ten years the women I have helped will be in one of two possible futures: (1) they will be working as nurses in a hospital, helping the sickly and needy and taking care of the newborn and the elderly. This will fill me with pride, as I would know that it was in a small part thanks to my instruction that they are able to help people further. The second situation is (2) they will have continued on to graduate studies and will be working on their Ph.D. in nursing or in their M.D.… Continue

Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on May 9, 2010 at 5:13am — No Comments

ACT6 Empowering Women

I help empower women every day. I work as a professor in a local post-secondary institution. However, it's not a regular "university". This institution is geared towards low-income, poor, disadvantaged students. Our main students are single mothers with a low level of education, women who are trapped in harmful relationships, and some men who need rehabilitation. By catering to this population we are helping people who would otherwise be victims become empowered, learn a profession, and break… Continue

Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on May 9, 2010 at 4:45am — No Comments

Too Big To Fail Bank Threatens Local And World Economies

Too Big To Fail Bank has just opened its doors to the citizens of the world. As much as one would wish that these are great news, they are not. Promising to make a total revenue of 20% of the entire world's GDP, Chuck Grassley's new bank offers large loans to people who can't afford to pay them back. They are, furthermore, offering to lend developing countries large amounts of money in exchange for the devaluation of their local currencies and control over their public utilities. Having joined… Continue

Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on May 9, 2010 at 2:02am — No Comments

Mission 4> The Water Thinggy: Imagine

In a previous post I talked about making a large man-made river go across the Sahara Desert to make the land fertile. My water crisis celebration for 2020 would be to hold a competition of who can swim across the river first. The winner gets free water services for a year.

Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on May 9, 2010 at 1:34am — No Comments

Power Shift > Imagine

I remember five years ago. The government was experimenting with weapons to control the weather, and they made a mistake. By adding too much hydrogen into an already unstable solution a hidden factory in an uncharted island in the Pacific exploded and created a static thunderstorm. Making the area extremely dangerous, this enormous thunderstorm kept itself alive by evaporating the water of the ocean, absorbing it, and releasing it in an endless cycle. In this disaster thousands of scientists…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on April 17, 2010 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Power Shift > Learn

In a previous post I talked about how a local architect designed a house running on clean, renewable energy. To use this same example for this mission would seem unfair to me, as it would be double-dipping. Talking about Van Jones would also be a bit superficial. Instead, I'll talk about someone whom would not come to mind when talking about Power Shifts into renewable, sustainable energy: Bill Gates. One of the wealthiest and most influential men in the world, Bill Gates is famous for…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on April 17, 2010 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Food Security > Learn

I thought I had already posted a response to this. Anyway...

I live in a fairly affluent community that has no major issue with food. However, the island as a wh*** does have some problems, and the food crisis, given the overall overpopulation of the island (5 million people living in a 100 miles x 35 miles island) will likely have massive effects on the population if left unchecked. The socio-economic and historical considerations of the farmers in the island, whom, because…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on April 16, 2010 at 2:24am — 1 Comment

Mission 2: Food Security > Act

I don't think that teaching a single person to grow food is an ideal solution for this "act" mission. For someone in a teaching position (like myself) it is better to, as suggested in one of the tips from one of the first missions, "use what you have", and what I have is a talent for teaching and influencing minds. Instead of going about the traditional "I helped someone" route, I helped my students learn how to help themselves.

Even though I make a relatively acceptable…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on April 8, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Food Security > Imagine // Four Possibilities

To resolutely make a statement on what I will be eating ten years from now would be irresponsible unless taking into account several variables. Therefore, instead of writing one possible future and state is as the one and only possibility, I will write four possible outcomes based on four very different scenarios, all of them relative to where I want to be versus where the world seems to be…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on April 4, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Social Innovation > Act

This mission was a fairly simple one to accomplish for myself, as I have been "shadowing" my 'social innovator hero', Dr. James P. Gee, the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies in the University of Arizona (formerly the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading in the University of Wisconsin) for a few years now. I have always believed and known that videogames are not only excellent tools for teaching and learning, but also have integrated great educational models.…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on March 28, 2010 at 12:41am — No Comments

Social Innovation > Imagine

Ten years from now I visualize myself as a tenured professor in an educational institution that has the word “University” or the words “Community College” as part of its name. I will be teaching mainly courses on Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, and Digital literacies and literatures, but will also teach courses on American literature, 18th century literature, and writing and…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on March 25, 2010 at 9:53pm — No Comments

Social Innovation > Learn

In order to complete the requirements for the “Learn” mission of “Social Innovation” one is required to “own” one of the 33 “secrets” of being a social innovator which can be found in a curious post in the Designing Africa blog (…

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Added by Johansen Quijano Cruz on March 25, 2010 at 9:27pm — No Comments

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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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In this blog post I will focus on a plant that is abundant in our nature, and which is immensely nutritious. It's of course the Stinging Nettle. Let's start with the chemical constituents of this plant:37 % Non-Nitrogen-Extracts19 - 29 % Ash9 - 21 % Fiber4 % Fat22 % ProteinOnce the leaves are drid, their protein content can reach an astounding 40 %, which is much higher than beef, which even under the best of circ**stances can never exceed 31 % protein. In addition the Stinging Nettle consists…See More
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