Steven Burns's Blog (8)

Your objective: Design a new way to power something you use every day.

I'd like to change the way vehicle hybrid systems work by using solar, kinetic and battery power to help raise efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles. I think there is a lot more that can be done and I hope to developed these technologies in the near future.

Find a POWER PLAYER: someone who is working on an amazing electricity or sustainable energy project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toZ1IrlV8ts

This is a solar company that is trying to reduce the cost of owning a solar power system by using mirrors to amplify the light from the sun and concentrate it on the pv sheet. I think solar is the way of the future but current deployments are to expensive for…

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Who prepared it? What is the dish called? What does it taste
like?

I'm in my home in Sherman Oaks, Ca and i'm having dinner with my family. We're eating broiled Salmon with steamed veggies and pasta it all came from my yard. It tastes wonderful and it feels great being able to cook a full meal using food grown from my home.

Your objective: Describe the biggest challenge to food

security in your own local community or country -- and an

innovative solution that is already underway.



IMO, the biggest challenge for us in America is the cost of food. The cost of food seems to rise every year with inflation but salaries and overall income stays about the same. I think this has a lot to do with the cost of living in America. The government taxes as well as most states. They tax individuals and… Continue

My Hero is Jane Ngoiri of Mitumba. Her story was so touching, that my eyes began to water while reading it. I am normally not brought to tears from readings like this, i'm usually just infuriated by the corruption, selfishness, ignorance and at times blindness of people. I'm amazed that people feel that it is acceptable for others to live like this. It almost feels like we as Americans and other urban nations live in a different world that has no recollection of these poverty stricken nations.… Continue

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?

• Imagine yourself exactly ten years from today
• Tell a story about where you are, and what you're doing, when Alchemy calls YOU to help with the Tokyo food crisis.

I would be living in Los Angeles. I would be working with an automobile manufacture making economical and environmentally friendly products that… Continue

5. What you have matters more than what you lack (If you’ve got a bicycle,

consider what you can build based on that, rather than worrying about

not having a car, a truck, a metal shop.)



This is a concept most people fail to realize, including myself at times. Resourcefulness is a great quality to have, simply because it means that you can accomplish things despite being adequately supported. It forces you to think harder about the solution and thoroughly analyze every… Continue