A crash course in changing the world.
Before I get to the subject allow me a short story. For those of you who do not know, Dr. Jane McGonigal was a lecturer at the TED conference this year. Here is a link to her talk. She points out that a lot of the participants who worked their way through WWO felt that their lives were changed. Driving to the ATM this afternoon, I drove past some McMansions and looked at their front lawns. All I could think about was that those people should have planted food not grass. Did WWO change me? You betcha!
OK, back to the post.
I began to investigate food security in Detroit. Because everything in the city is pretty rough, I thought that there would be a great need for programs that would increase food security. I was delighted to find out that this was not the case.
Detroit has received a large grant in order to improve food security with project GROW. There is also a large community organization working not only to increase food security, but to improve the nutritional norms of Detroit citizens.
The suburbs, on the other hand, didn't seem to be doing anything about emergency preparedness for food security. Allow me to return to spring of '07. What we discovered (rather quickly, I might add) was that the communities that had retained their agriculture survived. Those bedroom/strip mall communities suffered-- a lot. Even though I know that in a country/planet wide disaster the state governments would likely be a major fail, I decided to check out what was being done on the state level. To be honest, there is something called the Food Policy Council, but I wouldn't bet the farm that they would be of much help.
I guess that leaves me with a project. Question: How could I bring the concept of self reliance for food production to the individual communities and get some people helped right away?
Stay tuned.
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