Sarah Schmid's Blog – April 2010 Archive (7)

My favorite secret is that if you remove 90 percent of the material, you will be able to make something 10 times cheaper. It is quite amazing that moving 90 percent of the material moved can result in making the product 10 times cheaper.

Check out the article which includes many more secrets!

http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/innovation-in-africa-tips/

Have you know that public trust is a very important issue in pandemic panic?

We have to establish a strong public trust as panic is the loss of social order that people will be able to follow what you are saying to do. Building trust is important as it creates reliability to other people.

Another important factor is technology. We have to be able to create push technology as it must determine the right messages that are distributed for the issues. As we push these messages out, will… Continue

I could imagine that technology would have greatly impacted the preparation of food.
In 2020, we would be sitting at the table during our work, as the food magically appears with robotic mechanisms to serve us our food from beneath the table.
It would only be made up of organic foods all created by machines and robots.
Of course you would still be able to cook your dishes yourself, but the new technology in 2020 will allow you to work and eat efficiently at the same time!

In villages, there are people that are wealthier than others, some might have more talent in cooking, or some may just not have the time. To solve all this, I have created a plan.

Once a family cooks a meal and has finished eating, there will most likely be left overs. Instead of throwing this food away, they will be able to bring this to a store in which it will be sold for a very cheap price. This way, weather a family does not have the money to buy the ingredients, does not have great… Continue

Where I live, there are numerous of different factors concerning food security. First of all, some of the quality of food available is not good, therefore some people will get sick many times. Since the cost of food here is quite low, security of stealing is not a great problem.



My country is currently part of the Global Food Security as it is planning many different number of projects throughout the country.



Another great problem the country faces is poverty as the Global… Continue

As I imagine myself to be 100, I would think that I would be telling my future generations about my current life. I would tell them about the global warning crisis and how we started using cloth bags instead of plastic bags.



I would also tell them how just as I was in school, we started to use computers to learn. Before, we used books, papers, and booklets to gather all of our information.



The sky was blue, and the grass was green. Jobs were getting harder to find as so many… Continue

Indigenous Knowledge of INDIGENOUS POSTPARTUM MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CARE RITES IMPROVES HEALTH OF MOTHER AND CHILD (NIGERIA).



One interesting case I have found from the website (http://www.kivu.com/wbbook/casestudies.html) was the health care of the mother and child after giving birth. During the four months after the mother has given birth, the child as well as the… Continue