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Celebrating in 2020
Objective: Create a story about how you are celebrating a special day in the year 2020, and how this event is powered.
By 2020 I am no longer pressed to celebrate the commercial holidays that have bogged me down so for years. This celebration is one of life. It is night, under a full moon, on the beach of Lake Superior. This is the only beach I have ever been to who's shores are losing population rather than gaining. It is beautiful, quiet and power reverberates…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 25, 2010 at 7:12pm — No Comments
I live in an apartment, there is nothing I can do. *buzz* WRONG!
Objective: Design a new way to power something you use every day.
Again the ACT objective had me stumped. I am no inventor. I spent a wh*** afternoon googling alternatively powered gadgets I could use to replace some gadget that I use a lot. There is much more out there than I realized, from hand cranked phone chargers to solar powered calculators. But to buy someone else's invention....this is not a personal innovation.
I read about…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 25, 2010 at 6:57pm — No Comments
What am I eating on March 10, 2020
In the next ten years I will continue to settle into my own skin, learning how to live more responsibly. By now my son will have completed culinary school and hopefully has learned some direction in responsible cooking. Perhaps we will be celebrating by grilling outdoors. I found a lovely recipe for Heirloom tomato salad with basil, cuc**ber and grilled sourdough. By now I have done my homework on where to shop organic and locally grown foods in my effort to eat more sustainably. I travel to… Continue
Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 17, 2010 at 9:53pm — No Comments
Let them eat Kale!
Objective: Increase the food security of at least one person in your community.
Before this objective, I did not even know what a community garden was. I have never lived in an urban community, and in the 20 years I have lived in the Dayton area, I have avoided the inner city whenever possible. Turns out, Dayton has several community gardens. I found a map online I could use if I wanted to tour through the locations, but not a lot of information about individual…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 17, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Apparently, Califonia based company Gill Onions had an issue with getting rid of waste. "When we peel an onion, 35 to 40 percent of the onion comes off before we have a usable onion. That's the top, tail and skin around the onion before you get to… Continue
Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 17, 2010 at 9:21pm — 1 Comment
Another reason to hate Ohio.
I live in Clark County, Ohio, in a small town near Springfield. For this project, I googled 'food security clark county ohio'. I got info on how to get food stamps. Same for googling Greene County and Montgomery County. I hit pay dirt in Columbus, however.
The Ohio…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 17, 2010 at 8:24pm — 1 Comment
What am I doing in 2020 when Alchemy calls me.
In 2020, I will be 58 years old. I will be living with my boyfriend in Amarillo, living a slower life as those with fibromyalgia must. However, I will be interested in helping high school kids aspire to bigger dreams and want to do something to help make a better world....as if it were up to thier generation to do it. I will be using my creative skills and some form of gaming to help with this task. I will also be publishing my graphic novel.…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 5, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments
My new hero.
I spent last summer learning how to make 3D landscapes for gaming. Next I would like to learn how to make 3D objects and perhaps learn a gaming platform called Unity. I also have to work, recently got divorced and am re-adjusting to a new life. As with all projects in my life, I had no real inspiration. Everyone wants to make the next farming game, right?
Then someone randomly posted the video of Jane McGonigal's TED talk on my shard's UO forums. Not only was her talk about…
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Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 5, 2010 at 1:00am — 4 Comments
33 secrets
Innovation (often) comes from constraint (If you’ve got very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them.)… Continue
Added by Rebecca Jo Girdner on April 4, 2010 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment
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Fourth of July on the Lake
This past weekend was the annual celebration at the lake house in Connecticut. It is amazing that the lake is still so clear and beautiful after all these years. The watershed association has done a wonderful job protecting these waters from the damaging effects of development.The wood grill was finally ready to cook on, so we didn't miss the propane tank fueled grill anymore. The food actually tasted fresher than in the past and was easy to keep fueled.Dad was very proud of the solar hybrid…See More
Stinging Nettle
In this blog post I will focus on a plant that is abundant in our nature, and which is immensely nutritious. It's of course the Stinging Nettle. Let's start with the chemical constituents of this plant:37 % Non-Nitrogen-Extracts19 - 29 % Ash9 - 21 % Fiber4 % Fat22 % ProteinOnce the leaves are drid, their protein content can reach an astounding 40 %, which is much higher than beef, which even under the best of circ**stances can never exceed 31 % protein. In addition the Stinging Nettle consists…See More
The meal
It is 7'oclock, I was late home from work due to an assignment that i wanted to get ahead on. By the time I get home I am feeling extremley tired and I cannot be bothered to make a proper meal. I walk to the fridge and open it to see what there is for me to eat. All of the out of date foodstuffs have been automaticaly thrown away by the fridge, they will be recycled tomorrow as animal feed or something. I see i have organic local eggs and some local cheese. Foods are vacc** sealded for easy…See More
Future
FutureToday is 2020/1/1. It is just like yesterday. The war is still continuing. It has started since 2010. In 2010, that year was a horrible year. Almost every energy ran out. Every country’s governments were crushed down at the same time. There were riots everywhere. All of the big company’s bosses were killed xdeadx in the riots. Troops fought each other everywhere. Food was bought up xawayx at once. There were no more food supplies in any shops. The economy was all crushed down. All the…See More
public servants
The exchange works directly for state and public workers and servants. It gives them credit in exchange for the amount of public work they contribute to the community. The more constructive they are based off a base rate the more credit they recieve.
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