"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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Imaging the Self in 2020
I live in an area outside of town with my partner David & dog and many cats. My mother lives on the property in her own flat. My son is completing his PhD in Quantum Physics at a nearby university, and lives in the basement apartment. We have some land where I plant fruits and vegetables - rather than buy from the store (in the last five years we've seen an increase in ads for 'organic' foods that were later proven to be false & mass produced, and foods that have been genetically…
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Forging Ahead
Choosing a Hero to shadow
Who: Kjerstin Erickson is the founder of FORGE.
She is 24 years old. She is a student at Stanford. And in her spare time, she works in three refugee camps in Zambia, helping 60,000 refugees build better lives. Interesting interview here.
FORGE’s bottom-up…
ContinueUnderstanding Cultures
Don’t fight culture, Listen to the right people, talk to the people who have the problem – and LISTEN to what they have to say -> Understand by observing the environment, infrastructure, culture and lives of people by being there.
How does this change the world?
One of the dangers in constructing potential innovations for social change is how we think about innovation and change. Suggestions for social changes…
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