"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…"
A crash course in changing the world.
It's that easy, right?
Yes.
"See and do the obvious."
So, when you're in a sprawling international school serving the Philippines' wealthiest consumers, and you see, on a daily basis, students being driven into school in SUVs, ignoring their drivers, using their maids as personal bellboys, walking to their aircon classroom, skirting around the grass in the playground, fearful of getting dirty, squealing when they see an insect come near them, throw their trash on the ground, pull off leaves when they walk past a plant, what do you do? The obvious.
Start a community garden. A new learning space designed by these students, dug by these students and tendered by them too. Somewhere where all members of the school community, from the kindergarten through to grade 12, teachers, parents, custodians and gardeners alike can remember what's important, how much we rely on the earth, how we share it with each other, have equal responsibility for it and then, in turn, understand that if we can look after it, we can all benefit from its fruits, knowing that they will grow back again as long as we collaborate and...care.
And this is what we've done. Now, the challenge is sustaining this.
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Comment by Ken Eklund on March 11, 2010 at 4:26am
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It was "obvious" to you maybe, but to me, brilliant! Of course, as you are saying, maybe the most brilliant things are also the most obvious...
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Comment by Thomas Bell on March 17, 2010 at 2:22pm
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Obvious, perhaps not. Effective, hopefully :) Worth doing, certainly!
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Comment by MoE on March 19, 2010 at 1:17pm
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That is the most beautiful, charming, altruist definition of "obvious" I've ever found. Thanks for you VISION (+1)
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Comment by Zack Garton on March 21, 2010 at 11:54am
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Right on! SPARK (+1). I'm specifically looking for people to give Spark/Sust points to, and you perfectly fit the bill for both. We desperately need people willing to apply themselves to teaching us (the present AND future population of the planet) how to live here harmoniously and prosper. We can come up with all the innovative technologies and alternatives we like, but what will it count for when the next generation of humanity has no respect for the planet that sustains us? I see the human element as even more vital than technological innovation, as they pertain to solving the problems with which we are faced; and you are engaged in training that human element.. Bravo =D Tell me more...? How did you come to be in the Philippines? Got any other plans? I'd like to help, however I may...
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 5, 2010 at 2:51pm
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Indeed, helping people reconnect with what they've lost (and often don't even know they've lost) is to very powerful and necessary! Thanks for your courage in giving them what they didn't know they needed...
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