"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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The annual Sustainability project
The annual
Sustainability project
In international search for the world's most sustainable home.
It starts at the local level, where green contractors contribute to the local prize money. A home is judged on
total ego footprint
on energy independence
on water independence
on food independence
on waste management
and on live ability
the winner at the local level will be allowed to compete at the state level
with a prize money is expected to be $100,000
the winners of the state level are allowed to compete at the national level where the prize would be $1 million. The international winner could win $10 million
When people see how easy it is to win on the local level I'm hoping the spirit of competition will arise and neighbor will try to outdo neighbor generating enough greens sales to not only pay for the competition but to make all other industries jealous of the green builders.
The supper sustainability project
In the super sustainability project participating colleges would be granted $10 million to design build and demonstrate a habitat that can sustain 2 people indefinitely with more points awarded according to the degree of climate severity for example; close looped sustainability may be difficult on a New England farm but extra points would be awarded for the team that can do it in death Valley California. The death Valley competitors would be dismayed at the points received by the people of Antarctica and so on.
but the public gets to vote on live ability in an American idol type voting competition.
It is hoped this project would attract some great scientific minds and greatly further the cause.
Frank
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Comment by Rob Black on April 5, 2010 at 6:10am
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It's got some merit, and really, it's what we need to start doing; we need to make thinking in terms of sustainability profitable, to draw people in... as obviously eminent doom of the planet isn't a good enough reason ! haha But really... good idea.
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Comment by Skwiggs on April 19, 2010 at 5:34am
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Co-operation though competition :) lol love it :)
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