Peri Rehm's Blog (14)

In a crisis, people need to realize that there isn’t one person who knows what is happening and why. A lot of people have different ideas as to the who, what, when, where, why’s, and some of them conflict. You need to get several views 

from several different parties, and get a general consensus from there. If you 

realize that there isn’t one answer, you can try to find the general happenings 

of the situation. 

In a crisis, people need to realize that there isn’t one person who knows what is happening and why. A lot of people have different ideas as to the who, what, when, where, why’s, and some of them conflict. You need to get several views 

from several different parties, and get a general consensus from there. If you 

realize that there isn’t one answer, you can try to find the general happenings 

of the situation. 

I would try to tackle the off-shore dilemma. What resources do we have here in the country that we can’t ship overseas? We need to focus on the creative arts.

US and European high schools…

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People value what they own. They always take better care of their own things than someone else’s, especially if it is important to them. If you take something, like a rainforest, and make it important to the people around it, the people there will protect it. If the resource can make a profit, there’s even more reason to protect it. People also should take pride in their resources. It’s not every day…

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Tulsa has a bad history of ice storms. They destroy everything. Ice weighs more than it seems. It can break power lines, trees, buildings, you name it.

There are lots of things we need to…

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In the last month, all of these stories appeared.

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I find paying for goods and services using e-money is such a rigid and formal process. Will we see other systems of trade emerge as e-money replaces cash? I decided to look at de-centralised, unmonitored methods of trading services, which resulted in an experiment called the favour bank. The favour bank works on a currency of favours. If you need a favour you can take a contact from the bank as long as you…

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Over 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.

2.5 billion people worldwide lack hygienic toilets.

These are the estimates reported by the World Health Organization.

A child killer: Surviving diarrhea is the greatest single challenge for our world’s children. 5 million people die each year from water-related diseases, mostly children under the age of five. Diarrhea is the leading cause of death of children in countries with high child…

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Okay, so I did a little research and this is what I found. Continue

In 2020 we will have gone back to our roots. Research shows that older diets, such as the Mediterranean diet, are healthier than the modern American ones. The Mediterranean diet was more a lifestyle, something you had to commit to entirely. It isn't something you can cheat around. The lifestyle was imagined from high activity, Mediterranean nutrition, anti stress attitudes and not much money. There is not one specific Mediterranean diet; many countries border the sea. It is considered to be the… Continue

In a 2007 article by the Tulsa World newspaper, Oklahoma was one of the 15 states in the US whose food insecurity, aka hunger, was above the national average. Continue

In ten years, in an ideal scenario, I'd be living in Istanbul, Turkey. It's one of my favorite places in the world. I love the culture and the lifestyle. I will have graduated from college with a degree in either education or music, or a combination of the two, and will have a small house on the Europe side of Istanbul. I'll be able to speak Turkish as well as possibly French. I won't have a car if I can avoid it, I'd rather walk. I'd be working on ways to protect the Bosphorus from…

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I chose journalist Dan Ilett who blogs on Greenbang.com because I think that going green is an important aspect to just about any problem. Sustainability is important when trying to fix something; we want a solution that will last longer than the problem. To find a solution we need to understand the problem and why it is happening. Greenbang covers stories that look at not just how to go green, but why it is necessary and why we're not at the moment. One of his stories, "Eco cheese wins… Continue

My favorite evidence out of the article is "If you want to make something 10 times cheaper, remove 90 percent of the material". I think that in order to create things that are actually feasible to use on a large scale, it needs to be inexpensive. It also needs to be easy to make so it can be produced on that large scale. It is also (probably) easier to get that material when you don't need as much. This could help me, or anyone else, change the world because it makes it within reach. Most… Continue