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Natural Resource Management in Brasil
The riverside of the Maraca River, as the riverside of all the Amazonic affluents in Peru and Brazil have several native communities living around. Many of these communities have never ever been contacted by western civilization while others have been and are legally recognized.
Cattle farmers established themselves in the lands of this communities, located in the North Eastern part of Brasil, and started to develop farms near the riverside. This caused huge trouble for the…
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Added by J.J on May 17, 2010 at 2:31am — No Comments
Lima on 2020
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Waste processing plant
Trains
Less roads for cars and more for…
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Added by J.J on May 13, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments
Mapping Crimes in Lima
During this week I've been meeting with some web developers in order to develop a mash up map where we can input locations where crimes occur. This came from a conversation where we shared how can we the citizens improve the security of Lima without requiring any authority to make an effort. The main problem we saw with authorities was that their programs usually involve many stakeholders and therefore it's difficult for any quick action to take place. Instead we planned to create this map and… Continue
Added by J.J on May 1, 2010 at 3:02pm — No Comments
Earthquake in Peru
Recently our neighbor country Chile suffered a devastating earthquake. I have many friends there and most of them lived near the epicenter of the quake. It was very difficult to try and find them and it felt horrible to not be able to help more. The risk of this happening in Peru is quite high too. In fact in 2007 a 7,9 magnitude earthquake stroke the south of Lima leaving a high death toll (around 1,000) and lot's of damage to constructions, buildings and… Continue
The Long Journey to Real Equality
One decade ago women were still fighting to achieve real gender equality, many equality advocates decided to work together to achieve real gender equality that started giving women rights that didn't require to mimic those that men had before and making the household a responsibility of two instead of just one person, usually the women in the religious and cultural tradition of the 20th century.
Things have changed a lot since then. Ten years ago entrepreneurship programs were…
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Micro Loans
On the Future of Money mission I started a Micro Loan agreement with a very talented lady that was baking and wanted to make a business out of it. She didn't had any job or properties and therefore wasn't able to get any equity to start her business. I detail more about the Micro Loan here.
It's very important to go and find women that need education and money to start a business so they can grow by…
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Added by J.J on April 24, 2010 at 2:33pm — No Comments
Last in Line for food
It breaks my heart to read that kids and women are left with no food because of cultural biases towards females ( www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=88685).
During my college years I studied the arab world and their culture, how it is formed and how the hierarchy is established in their communities. I also studied that some groups have developed a respect for human rights and are promoting gender equality…
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Added by J.J on April 21, 2010 at 3:45am — No Comments
Markets where reputation is the only thing that counts
Today at 7am a new system that tracks reputation went online. ReputationBank.bk started operating after being in a closed beta for 6 months. So if you're have done lot's of projects or would like to start here's the place where you can meet people interested and talented to help you.
Money doesn't count
In this market money isn't important. What counts is the impact your work and life projects make. Ages, experience and friends are…
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Added by J.J on April 15, 2010 at 12:46am — No Comments
MicroLoans
I happen to know a lady that has a huge ability to bake awesome cakes and desserts, probably the best I've tried in my wh*** life. This lady wants to start a business and make it big. She has already doc**ented all her recipes and needs some funding to start baking.
Currently she has a small oven that can work for the first months but needs some cash to buy gas, ingredients and to start making some sales calls. She also needs to outsource the sales project. In this project…
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Added by J.J on April 11, 2010 at 12:36am — No Comments
Money The Future and how it can be now!
When the Square Up idea was out I immediately thought this could be revolutionary in the developing world where all the transactions are cash based, but the high earning people have only credit cards. Accepting a Credit Card is a huge burden for any business, they need to get hardware, pay lot's of fees, re think price strategies, etc. It is also impossible for informal businesses to accept a credit card. Though informal businesses are a problem that needs to be addressed, while this is done we… Continue
Added by J.J on April 10, 2010 at 4:40pm — No Comments
Water Day
For Water day I'll like to make something simple but yet game changing. I would like for people to live a day using just 2 liters of water for everything from cooking, washing and drinking. This will make people aware of how bad the scarcity of water is and will hopefully encourage action in order to avoid this in the % of the population that still has no access to this supply.
This day will be an event like the earth hour in which we will try and make our…
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Added by J.J on April 5, 2010 at 2:52am — No Comments
Improving Water use education
As to what I can do for water crisis I found out that one of the best ways to help is to educate people so they save this resource and so we have enough supply for the share of the population that has no access to water or sanitation on their areas.
My city suffers a lot of this, because the water supply is low and the use of water is not the best. My way to take action is to support a water education program by developing their web campaign in order to promote the correct…
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Added by J.J on April 4, 2010 at 4:22pm — No Comments
Rural Peru needs water
Rural Peru needs to have water. Though 80% of the urban population have access to water in the rural areas the penetration of it is only 30%. This is a shocker because it deepens the inequality of development between rural and urban areas. What needs to be done is to get water to this populations and design the system so they can use it in an efficient way. For a long time we've been using water in a inefficient way and we need to stop making this mistake as we get water to populations that… Continue
Added by J.J on April 2, 2010 at 4:55pm — No Comments
Easter Holydays in 2020
My favorite holyday is easter. It all starts with my grandmother celebrating it every year and it was a time where all the family was together. For Christmas we divided to go and visit every other family celebrating, but for Easter all came to us, probably the only making a big celebration then.
For 2020 I'll like to keep this a tradition, maybe now shared with friends and random people who would like to join and make a nice party out of this holiday. My idea is to eat some…
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Added by J.J on March 28, 2010 at 2:26pm — No Comments
Charging my Phone while I work out.
This is a projectI did a long time ago for my old Nokia phone that I plan to repeat to charge my iPhone while I work out. What makes this perfect is that I need to workout for 45 minutes to 1 hour which is the time my phone needs to go from 20% to 100% of battery charge.
My idea is simple. I'm a certified Spinning Instructor, though I've never gave any lessons I do like the indoor cycling thing since I'm still saving to buy my outdoor bike. The idea is to link a dynamo to…
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Added by J.J on March 26, 2010 at 4:22pm — No Comments
Hotel using alternative energy sources
Last week I got to meet a entrepreneur that was building a hotel in a place where no electricity was available. After matching the costs of extending the electricity lines vs investing in sustainable energy sources he came to the conclusion that the hotel needed to be powered by alternative sources of energy and this will make a better experience for the usual guests at the hotel.… Continue
Added by J.J on March 25, 2010 at 3:37pm — No Comments
Community Farm
It took me a while to think what to do to increase food security and quality of life in my community. In our city we have lot's of people that have not got food security, we've got people getting on buses to ask for money in order to eat and this is mainly because we can't find work for them to do.
To increase their food security I've decided to design a model for community farms that can be developed in any neighborhood regardless of the income. Why would people want to do…
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Added by J.J on March 17, 2010 at 5:35pm — No Comments
Dinner at home
It's a saturday night, it's cold outside ...spring is coming and the plans of a quiet night seem very good at this point. I've invited some friends and while my girl friend chats with them on the living room I'm cooking what will be a nice dish....it's fish with pasta and vegetables. This dish is new, no name yet we've haven't tried it even. I tend to like to be creative so I get to cook something new every now and then. In reality I'm just lazy to learn to cook properly, reading a book and I… Continue
Added by J.J on March 14, 2010 at 9:41pm — No Comments
Cell Phones and Education in the Peruvian Highlands
In the Peruvian Highlands and Jungle we have farms that grow a myriad of vegetables and farm products, from potatoes to coffee. The efforts of the government towards food security have been very weak up until the beginning of the 2000s decade. It was then when the government decided to go on the path of technology, education and information to make it work.
If you see the map provided by the…
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Nutrition for Education
Today I got the chance to discuss with a Nutrition Professional for 20 minutes about how nutrition during pregnancy and the childs early years helps to improve his chances of getting a better education. I think it's something we can't deny that in many places of the world, specially in the developing world kids don't get enough nutrients to develop properly. This is also true in developed countries where we sometimes favor junk food over the key nutrients (macro and micro) we need to… Continue
Added by J.J on March 8, 2010 at 10:21pm — 4 Comments
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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
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