A crash course in changing the world.
There's a lot of Texas currently unused - a blasted wasteland of baked earth, actually, not great for farming or living and the land is going cheap.
My hope for my family reunion with in-laws in Texas is that we spend it at a resort completely powered by solar farms that have taken over the unused parched lands of this state. Where no food can be grown, where no animal or habitat can flourish (possibly bc of climate change) we are at least harvesting the sun to power our air…
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Ok, so the challenge is to power something you use every day or have used every day.
My idea stems from an earlier wish I had that fitness would go beyond the Wii Fit and its dorky remote wand thing, and in recollecting Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG where my character was ENDLESSly running across the deserts of Tatooine and I was always looking at her artificially scuplted behind.
I can see people groaning a bit at this, but what if the video game (which…
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My hope is that by March 10, 2020 there will have been a successful food revolution by Jamie Oliver (See his platform: http://www.jamieoliver.com/jfr-beta/pdf/Jamie-Oliver_Platform-for-change.pdf ) and that more people have been taught how to cook. I was lucky enough to have been instructed in the basics, enough t o go on and teach myself via cookbooks, but he's uncovered some basic ignorance in…
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For my act of monetary courage I went and helped this project on Kickstarter.com with a small amount of cash
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/OurGoods/trade-school-0
I was fascinated by the project bc I'm on an education kick now at work but the "school" itself had interesting future principles. If you have to give up something to learn something, you immediately have more invested and…
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I read a bunch of personal finance bloggers - I have ever since the pre-recession media frenzy because I felt it was a more positive step than absorbing the body blows of constant media despair. The frugality folks may be a little anal about washing Baggies for reuse, more exacting than a lot of us, but they usually give off the energy of "can do" around the nation's fiscal issues.
So I'm no stranger to sites like freecycle.org - which I've used to give away things - and as a…
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http://tech.ashoka.org/Community_electricity+generators
I liked this effort because it had a community rallying behind the electricity effort and to get enough biomass, it takes a village. :)
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It was heartwarmign to see - after a search for "food security seatthe" , under the Community Food Security Coalition's list, a program that I knew about and have had friends take part in, but didn't connect to the challenge of this week's Evoke.
The program is Seattle's
http://www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/ppatch/
And their fact sheet is here:…
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I already follow Beth Kanter (http://twitter.com/kanter) , a social good twitterer and amazing fund-raiser, and I thought I'd follow Matt Flannery (http://www.twitter.com/mattflannery as a counterpoint (CEO Of Kiva.org). Because I'm always on twitter for work and for myself, I feel like this is the best way to keep up with the world of micro-lending and get it as part of my daily dose of online…
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My favorite of the 33 design principles ended up being drawn from the supporting points of interviewing the right people and learnign to live on $2 a day. If you are trying to create a product or a system to help people, you should try as much as possible to learn from people who embody the problem you want to help, or who pay the price every day for the weaknesses of the system in their bodies.
So with regard to having to carry water on your head - it doesn't make sense for a…
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